Repository: incubator-airflow Updated Branches: refs/heads/master ec0d227ef -> 2a8bb0e1b
[AIRFLOW-1835] Update docs: Variable file is json Searching through all the documentation I couldn't find anywhere that explained what file format it expected for uploading settings. Closes #2802 from bovard/variable_files_are_json Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow/commit/2a8bb0e1 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow/tree/2a8bb0e1 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow/diff/2a8bb0e1 Branch: refs/heads/master Commit: 2a8bb0e1b7a15a70519020e69e7369700df5dc37 Parents: ec0d227 Author: Bovard Doerschuk-Tiberi <bovard.tib...@gmail.com> Authored: Wed Apr 25 14:21:22 2018 -0700 Committer: r39132 <siddharthan...@yahoo.com> Committed: Wed Apr 25 14:21:35 2018 -0700 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- docs/concepts.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow/blob/2a8bb0e1/docs/concepts.rst ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/docs/concepts.rst b/docs/concepts.rst index e85238d..89c25fe 100644 --- a/docs/concepts.rst +++ b/docs/concepts.rst @@ -410,7 +410,8 @@ Variables Variables are a generic way to store and retrieve arbitrary content or settings as a simple key value store within Airflow. Variables can be listed, created, updated and deleted from the UI (``Admin -> Variables``), -code or CLI. While your pipeline code definition and most of your constants +code or CLI. In addition, json settings files can be bulk uploaded through +the UI. While your pipeline code definition and most of your constants and variables should be defined in code and stored in source control, it can be useful to have some variables or configuration items accessible and modifiable through the UI.
