jcao219 opened a new pull request #3930: [AIRFLOW-2548] Output plugin import 
errors to web UI
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/pull/3930
 
 
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   ### Jira
   
   - [x] My PR addresses the following [Airflow 
Jira](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW/) issues and references 
them in the PR title. For example, "\[AIRFLOW-XXX\] My Airflow PR"
     - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-2548
     - In case you are fixing a typo in the documentation you can prepend your 
commit with \[AIRFLOW-XXX\], code changes always need a Jira issue.
   
   ### Description
   
   - [x] Here are some details about my PR, including screenshots of any UI 
changes:
   
   
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/199185/45848620-0bb86780-bce4-11e8-94fe-ea3df8b9c549.png)
   
   This change displays an alert in the web interface for each ImportError that 
occurs on the DAGs homepage.
   
   A limitation is that the presence of the error alert reflects the brokenness 
of the plugin according to the webserver, not the scheduler. So, if the user 
fixes the plugin and restarts *only* the webserver, that web UI will not show 
the error anymore, but the airflow DAGs may still be broken because the 
scheduler also needs a restart. In other words, the plugin can be 
simultaneously fixed for the webserver but broken for the scheduler.  After 
editing the plugin's code, both the scheduler and the webserver need to be 
restarted.
   
   The proposer of the Jira issue @andscoop outlined a different approach to 
add this feature in the Jira issue. I may be mistaken, but that approach would 
cause the opposite limitation, where the error alert would reflect the 
brokenness of the plugin according to the scheduler, not the webserver?
   
   ### Tests
   
   - [x] My PR adds the following unit tests __OR__ does not need testing for 
this extremely good reason:
   
   It is unclear how I can unit test a small UI change like this.
   
   
   ### Commits
   
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have squashed multiple commits if they address the same issue. In addition, my 
commits follow the guidelines from "[How to write a good git commit 
message](http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/)":
     1. Subject is separated from body by a blank line
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     1. Subject uses the imperative mood ("add", not "adding")
     1. Body wraps at 72 characters
     1. Body explains "what" and "why", not "how"
   
   ### Documentation
   
   - [x] In case of new functionality, my PR adds documentation that describes 
how to use it.
     - When adding new operators/hooks/sensors, the autoclass documentation 
generation needs to be added.
   
   Added a sentence to clarify the need to restart both the webserver and the 
scheduler after plugin changes.
   
   ### Code Quality
   
   - [x] Passes `git diff upstream/master -u -- "*.py" | flake8 --diff`
   

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