incubator-airflow/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and are greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps, and credit will always be given.

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• Types of Contributions
  • Report Bugs
  • Fix Bugs
  • Implement Features
  • Improve Documentation
  • Submit Feedback
• Documentation
• Local virtualenv development environment
  • Installation
  • Running individual tests
  • Running tests directly from the IDE
• Integration test development environment
  • Prerequisites
  • Using the Docker Compose environment
  • Running static code analysis
  • Docker images
  • Default behaviour for user interaction
  • Local Docker Compose scripts
  • Cleaning up cached Docker images/containers
  • Troubleshooting
• Pylint checks
• Pre-commit hooks
  • Installing pre-commit hooks
  • Docker images for pre-commit hooks
  • Prerequisites for pre-commit hooks
  • Pre-commit hooks installed
  • Using pre-commit hooks
  • Skipping pre-commit hooks
  • Advanced pre-commit usage
• Pull Request Guidelines
• Testing on Travis CI
  • Travis CI GitHub App (new version)
  • Travis CI GitHub Services (legacy version)
  • Prefer travis-ci.com over travis-ci.org
• Changing the Metadata Database
• Setting up the node / npm javascript environment
  • Node/npm versions
  • Using npm to generate bundled files

Types of Contributions

Report Bugs

Report bugs through Apache Jira

Please report relevant information and preferably code that exhibits the problem.

Fix Bugs

Look through the Jira issues for bugs. Anything is open to whoever wants to implement it.

Implement Features

Look through the Apache Jira for features. Any unassigned "Improvement" issue is open to whoever wants to implement it.

We've created the operators, hooks, macros and executors we needed, but we made sure that this part of Airflow is extensible. New operators, hooks, macros and executors are very welcomed!

Improve Documentation

Airflow could always use better documentation, whether as part of the official Airflow docs, in docstrings, docs/*.rst or even on the web as blog posts or articles.

Submit Feedback

The best way to send feedback is to open an issue on Apache Jira

If you are proposing a feature:

• Explain in detail how it would work.
• Keep the scope as narrow as possible, to make it easier to implement.
• Remember that this is a volunteer-driven project, and that contributions are welcome :)

Documentation

The latest API documentation is usually available here. To generate a local version, you need to have set up an Airflow development environment (see below). Also install the doc extra.

pip install -e '.[doc]'

Generate and serve the documentation by running:

cd docs
./build.sh
./start_doc_server.sh

Local virtualenv development environment

When you develop Airflow you can create local virtualenv with all requirements required by Airflow.

Advantage of local installation is that everything works locally, you do not have to enter Docker/container environment and you can easily debug the code locally. You can also have access to python virtualenv that contains all the necessary requirements and use it in your local IDE - this aids autocompletion, and running tests directly from within the IDE.

It is STRONGLY encouraged to also install and use Pre commit hooks for your local development environment. They will speed up your development cycle speed a lot.

The disadvantage is that you have to maintain your dependencies and local environment consistent with other development environments that you have on your local machine.

Another disadvantage is that you you cannot run tests that require external components - mysql, postgres database, hadoop, mongo, cassandra, redis etc.. The tests in Airflow are a mixture of unit and integration tests and some of them require those components to be setup. Only real unit tests can be run by default in local environment.

If you want to run integration tests, you need to configure and install the dependencies on your own.

It's also very difficult to make sure that your local environment is consistent with other environments. This can often lead to "works for me" syndrome. It's better to use the Docker Compose integration test environment in case you want reproducible environment consistent with other people.

Installation

Install Python (3.5 or 3.6), MySQL, and libxml by using system-level package managers like yum, apt-get for Linux, or Homebrew for Mac OS at first. Refer to the Dockerfile for a comprehensive list of required packages.

In order to use your IDE you need you can use the virtual environment. Ideally you should setup virtualenv for all python versions that Airflow supports (3.5, 3.6). An easy way to create the virtualenv is to use virtualenvwrapper - it allows you to easily switch between virtualenvs using workon command and mange your virtual environments more easily. Typically creating the environment can be done by:

mkvirtualenv <ENV_NAME> --python=python<VERSION>

Then you need to install python PIP requirements. Typically it can be done with: pip install -e ".[devel]".

Note - if you have trouble installing mysql client on MacOS and you have an error similar to

ld: library not found for -lssl

you should set LIBRARY_PATH before running pip install:

export LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/

After creating the virtualenv, run this command to create the Airflow sqlite database:

airflow db init

This can be automated if you do it within a virtualenv. The ./breeze script has a flag (-e or --initialize-local-virtualenv) that automatically installs dependencies in the virtualenv you are logged in and resets the sqlite database as described below.

After the virtualenv is created, you must initialize it. Simply enter the environment (using workon) and once you are in it run:

./breeze --initialize-local-virtualenv

Once initialization is done, you should select the virtualenv you initialized as the project's default virtualenv in your IDE and run tests efficiently.

After setting it up - you can use the usual "Run Test" option of the IDE and have the autocomplete and documentation support from IDE as well as you can debug and view the sources of Airflow - which is very helpful during development.

Running individual tests

Once you activate virtualenv (or enter docker container) as described below you should be able to run run-tests at will (it is in the path in Docker environment but you need to prepend it with ./ in local virtualenv (./run-tests).

Note that this script has several flags that can be useful for your testing.

Usage: run-tests [FLAGS] [TESTS_TO_RUN] -- <EXTRA_NOSETEST_ARGS>

Runs tests specified (or all tests if no tests are specified)

Flags:

-h, --help
        Shows this help message.

-i, --with-db-init
        Forces database initialization before tests

-s, --nocapture
        Don't capture stdout when running the tests. This is useful if you are
        debugging with ipdb and want to drop into console with it
        by adding this line to source code:

            import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

-v, --verbose
        Verbose output showing coloured output of tests being run and summary
        of the tests - in a manner similar to the tests run in the CI environment.

You can pass extra parameters to nose, by adding nose arguments after --

For example, in order to just execute the "core" unit tests and add ipdb set_trace method, you can run the following command:

./run-tests tests.core:TestCore --nocapture --verbose

or a single test method without colors or debug logs:

./run-tests tests.core:TestCore.test_check_operators

Note that ./run_tests script runs tests but the first time it runs, it performs database initialisation. If you run further tests without leaving the environment, the database will not be initialized, but you can always force database initialization with --with-db-init (-i) switch. The scripts will inform you what you can do when they are run.

Running tests directly from the IDE

Once you configure your tests to use the virtualenv you created. running tests from IDE is as simple as:

Note that while most of the tests are typical "unit" tests that do not require external components, there are a number of tests that are more of "integration" or even "system" tests (depending on the convention you use). Those tests interact with external components. For those tests you need to run complete Docker Compose - base environment below.

Integration test development environment

This is the environment that is used during CI builds on Travis CI. We have scripts to reproduce the Travis environment and you can enter the environment and run it locally.

The scripts used by Travis CI run also image builds which make the images contain all the sources. You can see which scripts are used in .travis.yml file.

Prerequisites

Docker

You need to have Docker CE installed.

IMPORTANT!!! : Mac OS Docker default Disk size settings

When you develop on Mac OS you usually have not enough disk space for Docker if you start using it seriously. You should increase disk space available before starting to work with the environment. Usually you have weird problems with docker containers when you run out of Disk space. It might not be obvious that space is an issue. If you get into weird behaviour try Cleaning Up Docker

See Docker for Mac - Space for details of increasing disk space available for Docker on Mac.

At least 128 GB of Disk space is recommended. You can also get by with smaller space but you should more often clean the docker disk space periodically.

Getopt and coreutils

If you are on MacOS:

• Run brew install gnu-getopt coreutils (if you use brew, or use equivalent command for ports)
• Then (with brew) link the gnu-getopt to become default as suggested by brew.

If you use bash, you should run this command:

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-getopt/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
. ~/.bash_profile

If you use zsh, you should run this command:

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-getopt/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zprofile
. ~/.zprofile

if you use zsh

• Login and logout afterwards

If you are on Linux:

• Run apt install util-linux coreutils or equivalent if your system is not Debian-based.

Using the Docker Compose environment

Airflow has a super-easy-to-use integration test environment managed via Docker Compose and used by Airflow's CI Travis tests.

It's called Airflow Breeze as in "It's a breeze to develop Airflow"

All details about using and running Airflow Breeze can be found in BREEZE.rst

The advantage of the Airflow Breeze Integration Tests environment is that it is a full environment including external components - mysql database, hadoop, mongo, cassandra, redis etc. Some of the tests in Airflow require those external components. Integration test environment provides preconfigured environment where all those services are running and can be used by tests automatically.

Another advantage is that the Airflow Breeze environment is pretty much the same as used in Travis CI automated builds, and if the tests run in your local environment they will most likely work on Travis as well.

The disadvantage of Airflow Breeze is that it is fairly complex and requires time to setup. However it is all automated and easy to setup. Another disadvantage is that it takes a lot of space in your local Docker cache. There is a separate environment for different python versions and airflow versions and each of the images take around 3GB in total. Building and preparing the environment by default uses pre-built images from DockerHub (requires time to download and extract those GB of images) and less than 10 minutes per python version to build.

Note that those images are not supposed to be used in production environments. They are optimised for repeatability of tests, maintainability and speed of building rather than performance

Running individual tests within the container

Once you are inside the environment you can run individual tests as described in Running individual tests.

Running static code analysis

We have a number of static code checks that are run in Travis CI but you can run them locally as well. All the scripts are available in scripts/ci folder.

All these tests run in python3.6 environment. Note that the first time you run the checks it might take some time to rebuild the docker images required to run the tests, but all subsequent runs will be much faster - the build phase will just check if your code has changed and rebuild as needed.

The checks below are run in a docker environment, which means that if you run them locally, they should give the same results as the tests run in TravisCI without special environment preparation.

Running static code analysis from the host

You can trigger the static checks from the host environment, without entering Docker container. You do that by running appropriate scripts (The same is done in TravisCI)

• scripts/ci/ci_check_license.sh - checks if all licences are present in the sources
• scripts/ci/ci_docs.sh - checks that documentation can be built without warnings.
• scripts/ci/ci_flake8.sh - runs flake8 source code style guide enforcement tool
• scripts/ci/ci_lint_dockerfile.sh - runs lint checker for the Dockerfile
• scripts/ci/ci_mypy.sh - runs mypy type annotation consistency check
• scripts/ci/ci_pylint_main.sh - runs pylint static code checker for main files
• scripts/ci/ci_pylint_tests.sh - runs pylint static code checker for tests

The scripts will fail by default when image rebuild is needed (for example when dependencies change) and provide instruction on how to rebuild the images. You can control the default behaviour as explained in Default behaviour for user interaction

You can force rebuilding of the images by deleting .build directory. This directory keeps cached information about the images already built and you can safely delete it if you want to start from the scratch.

After Documentation is built, the html results are available in docs/_build/html folder. This folder is mounted from the host so you can access those files in your host as well.

Running static code analysis in the docker compose environment

If you are already in the Docker Compose Environment you can also run the same static checks from within container:

• Mypy: ./scripts/ci/in_container/run_mypy.sh airflow tests
• Pylint for main files: ./scripts/ci/in_container/run_pylint_main.sh
• Pylint for test files: ./scripts/ci/in_container/run_pylint_tests.sh
• Flake8: ./scripts/ci/in_container/run_flake8.sh
• Licence check: ./scripts/ci/in_container/run_check_licence.sh
• Documentation: ./scripts/ci/in_container/run_docs_build.sh

Running static code analysis on selected files/modules

In all static check scripts - both in container and in the host you can also pass module/file path as parameters of the scripts to only check selected modules or files. For example:

In container:

./scripts/ci/in_container/run_pylint.sh ./airflow/example_dags/

or

./scripts/ci/in_container/run_pylint.sh ./airflow/example_dags/test_utils.py

In host:

./scripts/ci/ci_pylint.sh ./airflow/example_dags/

or

./scripts/ci/ci_pylint.sh ./airflow/example_dags/test_utils.py

And similarly for other scripts.

Docker images

For all development tasks related integration tests and static code checks we are using Docker images that are maintained in Dockerhub under apache/airflow repository.

There are three images that we currently manage:

• Slim CI image that is used for static code checks (size around 500MB) - tag follows the pattern of <BRANCH>-python<PYTHON_VERSION>-ci-slim (for example master-python3.6-ci-slim). The image is built using the Dockerfile dockerfile.
• Full CI image that is used for testing - containing a lot more test-related installed software (size around 1GB) - tag follows the pattern of <BRANCH>-python<PYTHON_VERSION>-ci (for example master-python3.6-ci). The image is built using the Dockerfile dockerfile.
• Checklicence image - an image that is used during licence check using Apache RAT tool. It does not require any of the dependencies that the two CI images need so it is built using different Dockerfile Dockerfile-checklicence and only contains Java + Apache RAT tool. The image is labeled with checklicence image.

We also use a very small Dockerfile-context dockerfile in order to fix file permissions for an obscure permission problem with Docker caching but it is not stored in apache/airflow registry.

Before you run tests or enter environment or run local static checks, the necessary local images should be pulled and built from DockerHub. This happens automatically for the test environment but you need to manually trigger it for static checks as described in Building the images and Force pulling and building the images). The static checks will fail and inform what to do if the image is not yet built.

Note that building image first time pulls the pre-built version of images from Dockerhub might take a bit of time - but this wait-time will not repeat for any subsequent source code change. However, changes to sensitive files like setup.py or Dockerfile will trigger a rebuild that might take more time (but it is highly optimised to only rebuild what's needed)

In most cases re-building an image requires connectivity to network (for example to download new dependencies). In case you work offline and do not want to rebuild the images when needed - you might set ASSUME_NO_TO_ALL_QUESTIONS variable to true as described in the Default behaviour for user interaction chapter.

See Troubleshooting section for steps you can make to clean the environment.

Default behaviour for user interaction

Sometimes during the build user is asked whether to perform an action, skip it, or quit. This happens in case of image rebuilding and image removal - they can take a lot of time and they are potentially destructive. For automation scripts, you can export one of the three variables to control the default behaviour.

export ASSUME_YES_TO_ALL_QUESTIONS="true"

If ASSUME_YES_TO_ALL_QUESTIONS is set to true, the images will automatically rebuild when needed. Images are deleted without asking.

export ASSUME_NO_TO_ALL_QUESTIONS="true"

If ASSUME_NO_TO_ALL_QUESTIONS is set to true, the old images are used even if re-building is needed. This is useful when you work offline. Deleting images is aborted.

export ASSUME_QUIT_TO_ALL_QUESTIONS="true"

If ASSUME_QUIT_TO_ALL_QUESTIONS is set to true, the whole script is aborted. Deleting images is aborted.

If more than one variable is set, YES takes precedence over NO which take precedence over QUIT.

Local Docker Compose scripts

For your convenience, there are scripts that can be used in local development

• where local host sources are mounted to within the docker container. Those "local" scripts starts with "local_" prefix in scripts/ci folder and they run Docker-Compose environment with relevant backends (mysql/postgres) and additional services started.

Running the whole suite of tests

Running all tests with default settings (python 3.6, sqlite backend, docker environment):

./scripts/ci/local_ci_run_airflow_testing.sh

Selecting python version, backend, docker environment:

PYTHON_VERSION=3.5 BACKEND=postgres ENV=docker ./scripts/ci/local_ci_run_airflow_testing.sh

Running kubernetes tests:

KUBERNETES_VERSION==v1.13.0 KUBERNETES_MODE=persistent_mode BACKEND=postgres ENV=kubernetes \
  ./scripts/ci/local_ci_run_airflow_testing.sh

• PYTHON_VERSION might be one of 3.5/3.6/3.7
• BACKEND might be one of postgres/sqlite/mysql
• ENV might be one of docker/kubernetes/bare
• KUBERNETES_VERSION - required for Kubernetes tests - currently KUBERNETES_VERSION=v1.13.0.
• KUBERNETES_MODE - mode of kubernetes, one of persistent_mode, git_mode

The following environments are possible:

• The docker environment (default): starts all dependencies required by full integration test-suite (postgres, mysql, celery, etc.). This option is resource intensive so do not forget to Stop environment when you are finished. This option is also RAM intensive and can slow down your machine.
• The kubernetes environment: Runs airflow tests within a kubernetes cluster (requires KUBERNETES_VERSION and KUBERNETES_MODE variables).
• The bare environment: runs airflow in docker without any external dependencies. It will only work for non-dependent tests. You can only run it with sqlite backend. You can only enter the bare environment with local_ci_enter_environment.sh and run tests manually, you cannot execute local_ci_run_airflow_testing.sh with it.

Note: The Kubernetes environment will require setting up minikube/kubernetes so it might require some host-network configuration.

Stopping the environment

Docker-compose environment starts a number of docker containers and keep them running. You can tear them down by running /scripts/ci/local_ci_stop_environment.sh

Fixing file/directory ownership

On Linux there is a problem with propagating ownership of created files (known Docker problem). Basically files and directories created in container are not owned by the host user (but by the root user in our case). This might prevent you from switching branches for example if files owned by root user are created within your sources. In case you are on Linux host and haa some files in your sources created by the root user, you can fix the ownership of those files by running scripts/ci/local_ci_fix_ownership.sh script.

Building the images

You can manually trigger building of the local images using scripts/ci/local_ci_build.sh.

The scripts that build the images are optimised to minimise the time needed to rebuild the image when the source code of Airflow evolves. This means that if you already had the image locally downloaded and built, the scripts will determine, the rebuild is needed in the first place. Then it will make sure that minimal number of steps are executed to rebuild the parts of image (for example PIP dependencies) that will give you an image consistent with the one used during Continuous Integration.

Force pulling the images

You can also force-pull the images before building them locally so that you are sure that you download latest images from DockerHub repository before building. This can be done with scripts/ci/local_ci_pull_and_build.sh script.

Cleaning up cached Docker images/containers

Note that you might need to cleanup your Docker environment occasionally. The images are quite big (1.5GB for both images needed for static code analysis and CI tests). And if you often rebuild/update images you might end up with some unused image data.

Cleanup can be performed with docker system prune command.

If you run into disk space errors, we recommend you prune your docker images using the docker system prune --all command. You might need to Stop the environment or restart the docker engine before running this command.

You can check if your docker is clean by running docker images --all and docker ps --all - both should return an empty list of images and containers respectively.

If you are on Mac OS and you end up with not enough disk space for Docker you should increase disk space available for Docker. See Docker for Mac - Space for details.

Troubleshooting

If you are having problems with the Docker Compose environment - try the following (after each step you can check if your problem is fixed)

1. Check if you have enough disk space in Docker if you are on MacOS.
2. Stop the environment
3. Delete .build and Force pull the images
4. Clean Up Docker engine
5. Fix file/directory ownership
6. Restart your docker engine and try again
7. Restart your machine and try again
8. Remove and re-install Docker CE, then start with force pulling the images

In case the problems are not solved, you can set VERBOSE variable to "true" (export VERBOSE="true") and rerun failing command, and copy & paste the output from your terminal, describe the problem and post it in Airflow Slack #troubleshooting channel.

Pylint checks

Note that for pylint we are in the process of fixing pylint code checks for the whole Airflow code. This is a huge task so we implemented an incremental approach for the process. Currently most of the code is excluded from pylint checks via scripts/ci/pylint_todo.txt. We have an open JIRA issue AIRFLOW-4364 which has a number of sub-tasks for each of the modules that should be made compatible. Fixing pylint problems is one of straightforward and easy tasks to do (but time-consuming) so if you are a first-time contributor to Airflow you can choose one of the sub-tasks as your first issue to fix. The process to fix the issue looks as follows:

1. Remove module/modules from the scripts/ci/pylint_todo.txt
2. Run scripts/ci/ci_pylint.sh
3. Fix all the issues reported by pylint
4. Re-run scripts/ci/ci_pylint.sh
5. If you see "success" - submit PR following Pull Request guidelines

There are following guidelines when fixing pylint errors:

• Ideally fix the errors rather than disable pylint checks - often you can easily refactor the code (IntelliJ/PyCharm might be helpful when extracting methods in complex code or moving methods around)
• When disabling particular problem - make sure to disable only that error-via the symbolic name of the error as reported by pylint
• If there is a single line where to disable particular error you can add comment following the line that causes the problem. For example:

def MakeSummary(pcoll, metric_fn, metric_keys):  # pylint: disable=invalid-name

• When there are multiple lines/block of code to disable an error you can surround the block with comment only pylint:disable/pylint:enable lines. For example:

# pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
class LoginForm(Form):
    """Form for the user"""
    username = StringField('Username', [InputRequired()])
    password = PasswordField('Password', [InputRequired()])
# pylint: enable=too-few-public-methods

Pre-commit hooks

Pre-commit hooks are fantastic way of speeding up your local development cycle. Those pre-commit checks will only check the files that you are currently working on which make them fast. Yet they are using exactly the same environment as the CI checks are using, so you can be pretty sure your modifications will be ok for CI if they pass pre-commit checks.

You are STRONGLY encouraged to install pre-commit hooks as they speed up your development and place less burden on the CI infrastructure.

We have integrated the fantastic pre-commit framework in our development workflow. You need to have python 3.6 installed in your host in order to install and use it. It's best to run your commits when you have your local virtualenv for Airflow activated (then pre-commit and other dependencies are automatically installed). You can also install pre-commit manually using pip install.

The pre-commit hooks require Docker Engine to be configured as the static checks static checks are executed in docker environment. You should build the images locally before installing pre-commit checks as described in Building the images. In case you do not have your local images built the pre-commit hooks fail and provide instructions on what needs to be done.

Installing pre-commit hooks

pre-commit install

Running the command by default turns on pre-commit checks for commit operations in git.

You can also decide to install the checks also for pre-push operation:

pre-commit install -t pre-push

You can see advanced usage of the install method via

pre-commit install --help

Docker images for pre-commit hooks

Before running the pre-commit hooks you must first build the docker images locally as described in Building the images chapter.

Sometimes your image is outdated (when dependencies change) and needs to be rebuilt because some dependencies have been changed. In such case the docker build pre-commit will fail and inform you that you should rebuild the image with REBUILD="true" environment variable set.

Prerequisites for pre-commit hooks

The pre-commit hooks use several external linters that need to be installed before pre-commit are run. Most of the linters are installed by running pip install -e .[devel] in the airflow sources as they are python-only, however there are some that should be installed locally using different methods. In Linux you typically install them with sudo apt install on MacOS with brew install.

The current list of prerequisites:

• xmllint: Linux - install via sudo apt install xmllint, MacOS - install via brew install xmllint

Pre-commit hooks installed

In airflow we have the following checks:

check-hooks-apply                Check hooks apply to the repository
check-apache-license             Checks compatibility with Apache License requirements
check-merge-conflict             Checks if merge conflict is being committed
check-executables-have-shebangs  Check that executables have shebang
check-xml                        Check XML files with xmllint
doctoc                           Refresh table-of-contents for md files
detect-private-key               Detects if private key is added to the repository
end-of-file-fixer                Make sure that there is an empty line at the end
flake8                           Run flake8
forbid-tabs                      Fails if tabs are used in the project
insert-license                   Add licences for most file types
lint-dockerfile                  Lint dockerfile
mixed-line-ending                Detects if mixed line ending is used (\r vs. \r\n)
mypy                             Run mypy
pylint                           Run pylint
shellcheck                       Check shell files with shellcheck
yamllint                         Check yaml files with yamllint

The check-apache-licence check is normally skipped for commits unless .pre-commit-config.yaml file is changed. This check always run for the full set of files and if you want to run it locally you need to specify --all-files flag of pre-commit. For example:

pre-commit run check-apache-licenses --all-files

Using pre-commit hooks

After installing pre-commit hooks are run automatically when you commit the code, but you can run pre-commit hooks manually as needed.

You can run all checks on your staged files by running: pre-commit run

You can run only one mypy check on your staged files by running: pre-commit run mypy

You can run only one mypy checks manually on all files by running: pre-commit run mypy --all-files

You can run all checks manually on all files by running: SKIP=pylint pre-commit run --all-files

You can skip one or more of the checks by specifying comma-separated list of checks to skip in SKIP variable: SKIP=pylint,mypy pre-commit run --all-files

Skipping pre-commit hooks

You can always skip running the tests by providing --no-verify flag to git commit command.

Advanced pre-commit usage

You can check other usages of pre-commit framework at Pre-commit website

Pull Request Guidelines

Before you submit a pull request from your forked repo, check that it meets these guidelines:

1. The pull request should include tests, either as doctests, unit tests, or both. The airflow repo uses Travis CI to run the tests and codecov to track coverage. You can set up both for free on your fork (see "Testing on Travis CI" section below). It will help you make sure you do not break the build with your PR and that you help increase coverage.
2. Please rebase your fork, squash commits, and resolve all conflicts.
3. Every pull request should have an associated JIRA. The JIRA link should also be contained in the PR description.
4. Preface your commit's subject & PR's title with [AIRFLOW-XXX] where XXX is the JIRA number. We compose release notes (i.e. for Airflow releases) from all commit titles in a release. By placing the JIRA number in the commit title and hence in the release notes, Airflow users can look into JIRA and GitHub PRs for more details about a particular change.
5. Add an Apache License header to all new files
6. If the pull request adds functionality, the docs should be updated as part of the same PR. Doc string are often sufficient. Make sure to follow the Sphinx compatible standards.
7. The pull request should work for Python 3.5 and 3.6.
8. As Airflow grows as a project, we try to enforce a more consistent style and try to follow the Python community guidelines. We currently enforce most PEP8 and a few other linting rules - described in Running static code analysis locally. It's a good idea to run tests locally before opening PR.
9. Please read this excellent article on commit messages and adhere to them. It makes the lives of those who come after you a lot easier.

Testing on Travis CI

We currently rely heavily on Travis CI for running the full Airflow test suite as running all of the tests locally requires significant setup. You can setup Travis CI in your fork of Airflow by following the Travis CI Getting Started guide.

There are two different options available for running Travis CI which are setup as separate components on GitHub:

1. Travis CI GitHub App (new version)
2. Travis CI GitHub Services (legacy version)

Travis CI GitHub App (new version)

1. Once installed, you can configure the Travis CI GitHub App at https://github.com/settings/installations -> Configure Travis CI.

2. For the Travis CI GitHub App, you can set repository access to either "All repositories" for convenience, or "Only select repositories" and choose <username>/airflow in the dropdown.

3. You can access Travis CI for your fork at https://travis-ci.com/<username>/airflow.

Travis CI GitHub Services (legacy version)

The Travis CI GitHub Services versions uses an Authorized OAuth App. Note that apache/airflow is currently still using the legacy version.

1. Once installed, you can configure the Travis CI Authorized OAuth App at https://github.com/settings/connections/applications/88c5b97de2dbfc50f3ac.

2. If you are a GitHub admin, click the "Grant" button next to your organization; otherwise, click the "Request" button.

3. For the Travis CI Authorized OAuth App, you may have to grant access to the forked <organization>/airflow repo even though it is public.

4. You can access Travis CI for your fork at https://travis-ci.org/<organization>/airflow.

Prefer travis-ci.com over travis-ci.org

The travis-ci.org site for open source projects is now legacy and new projects should instead be created on travis-ci.com for both private repos and open source.

Note that there is a second Authorized OAuth App available called "Travis CI for Open Source" used for the legacy travis-ci.org service. It should not be used for new projects.

More information:

• Open Source on travis-ci.com
• Legacy GitHub Services to GitHub Apps Migration Guide
• Migrating Multiple Repositories to GitHub Apps Guide

Changing the Metadata Database

When developing features the need may arise to persist information to the the metadata database. Airflow has Alembic built-in to handle all schema changes. Alembic must be installed on your development machine before continuing.

# starting at the root of the project
$ pwd
~/airflow
# change to the airflow directory
$ cd airflow
$ alembic revision -m "add new field to db"
  Generating
~/airflow/airflow/migrations/versions/12341123_add_new_field_to_db.py

Setting up the node / npm javascript environment

airflow/www/ contains all npm-managed, front end assets. Flask-Appbuilder itself comes bundled with jQuery and bootstrap. While these may be phased out over time, these packages are currently not managed with npm.

Node/npm versions

Make sure you are using recent versions of node and npm. No problems have been found with node>=8.11.3 and npm>=6.1.3

Using npm to generate bundled files

npm

First, npm must be available in your environment. If you are on Mac and it is not installed, you can run the following commands (taken from this source):

brew install node --without-npm
echo prefix=~/.npm-packages >> ~/.npmrc
curl -L https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | sh

The final step is to add ~/.npm-packages/bin to your PATH so commands you install globally are usable. Add something like this to your .bashrc file, then source ~/.bashrc to reflect the change.

export PATH="$HOME/.npm-packages/bin:$PATH"

You can also follow the general npm installation instructions.

npm packages

To install third party libraries defined in package.json, run the following within the airflow/www/ directory which will install them in a new node_modules/ folder within www/.

# from the root of the repository, move to where our JS package.json lives
cd airflow/www/
# run npm install to fetch all the dependencies
npm install

To parse and generate bundled files for airflow, run either of the following commands. The dev flag will keep the npm script running and re-run it upon any changes within the assets directory.

# Compiles the production / optimized js & css
npm run prod

# Start a web server that manages and updates your assets as you modify them
npm run dev

Upgrading npm packages

Should you add or upgrade an npm package, which involves changing package.json, you'll need to re-run npm install and push the newly generated package-lock.json file so we get the reproducible build.

Javascript Style Guide

We try to enforce a more consistent style and try to follow the JS community guidelines. Once you add or modify any javascript code in the project, please make sure it follows the guidelines defined in Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide. Apache Airflow uses ESLint as a tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript, which can be used by running any of the following commands.

# Check JS code in .js and .html files, and report any errors/warnings
npm run lint

# Check JS code in .js and .html files, report any errors/warnings and fix them if possible
npm run lint:fix