Contributing

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

# Start docker in your Airflow directory
docker run -t -i -v `pwd`:/airflow/ -w /airflow/ python:3 bash

# Install Airflow with all the required dependencies,
# including the devel which will provide the development tools
pip install -e '.[hdfs,hive,druid,devel]'

# Init the database
airflow initdb

nosetests -v tests/hooks/test_druid_hook.py

  test_get_first_record (tests.hooks.test_druid_hook.TestDruidDbApiHook) ... ok
  test_get_records (tests.hooks.test_druid_hook.TestDruidDbApiHook) ... ok
  test_get_uri (tests.hooks.test_druid_hook.TestDruidDbApiHook) ... ok
  test_get_conn_url (tests.hooks.test_druid_hook.TestDruidHook) ... ok
  test_submit_gone_wrong (tests.hooks.test_druid_hook.TestDruidHook) ... ok
  test_submit_ok (tests.hooks.test_druid_hook.TestDruidHook) ... ok
  test_submit_timeout (tests.hooks.test_druid_hook.TestDruidHook) ... ok
  test_submit_unknown_response (tests.hooks.test_druid_hook.TestDruidHook) ... ok

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Ran 8 tests in 3.036s

  OK

The Airflow code is mounted inside of the Docker container, so if you change something using your favorite IDE, you can directly test it in the container.

Using Docker Compose and Airflow's CI scripts

Start a docker container through Compose for development to avoid installing the packages directly on your system. The following will give you a shell inside a container, run all required service containers (MySQL, PostgresSQL, krb5 and so on) and install all the dependencies:

docker-compose -f scripts/ci/docker-compose.yml run airflow-testing bash
# From the container
export TOX_ENV=py35-backend_mysql-env_docker
/app/scripts/ci/run-ci.sh

If you wish to run individual tests inside of Docker environment you can do as follows:

# From the container (with your desired environment) with druid hook
export TOX_ENV=py35-backend_mysql-env_docker
/app/scripts/ci/run-ci.sh -- tests/hooks/test_druid_hook.py

Running unit tests

To run tests locally, once your unit test environment is setup (directly on your system or through our Docker setup) you should be able to simply run ./run_unit_tests.sh at will.

For example, in order to just execute the "core" unit tests, run the following:

./run_unit_tests.sh tests.core:CoreTest -s --logging-level=DEBUG

or a single test method:

./run_unit_tests.sh tests.core:CoreTest.test_check_operators -s --logging-level=DEBUG

To run the whole test suite with Docker Compose, do:

# Install Docker Compose first, then this will run the tests
docker-compose -f scripts/ci/docker-compose.yml run airflow-testing /app/scripts/ci/run-ci.sh

Alternatively, you can also set up Travis CI on your repo to automate this. It is free for open source projects.

Another great way of automating linting and testing is to use Git Hooks. For example you could create a pre-commit file based on the Travis CI Pipeline so that before each commit a local pipeline will be triggered and if this pipeline fails (returns an exit code other than 0) the commit does not come through. This "in theory" has the advantage that you can not commit any code that fails that again reduces the errors in the Travis CI Pipelines.

Since there are a lot of tests the script would last very long so you probably only should test your new feature locally.

The following example of a pre-commit file allows you..

to lint your code via flake8
to test your code via nosetests in a docker container based on python 2
to test your code via nosetests in a docker container based on python 3

#!/bin/sh

GREEN='\033[0;32m'
NO_COLOR='\033[0m'

setup_python_env() {
    local venv_path=${1}

    echo -e "${GREEN}Activating python virtual environment ${venv_path}..${NO_COLOR}"
    source ${venv_path}
}
run_linting() {
    local project_dir=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)

    echo -e "${GREEN}Running flake8 over directory ${project_dir}..${NO_COLOR}"
    flake8 ${project_dir}
}
run_testing_in_docker() {
    local feature_path=${1}
    local airflow_py2_container=${2}
    local airflow_py3_container=${3}

    echo -e "${GREEN}Running tests in ${feature_path} in airflow python 2 docker container..${NO_COLOR}"
    docker exec -i -w /airflow/ ${airflow_py2_container} nosetests -v ${feature_path}
    echo -e "${GREEN}Running tests in ${feature_path} in airflow python 3 docker container..${NO_COLOR}"
    docker exec -i -w /airflow/ ${airflow_py3_container} nosetests -v ${feature_path}
}

set -e
# NOTE: Before running this make sure you have set the function arguments correctly.
setup_python_env /Users/feluelle/venv/bin/activate
run_linting
run_testing_in_docker tests/contrib/hooks/test_imap_hook.py dazzling_chatterjee quirky_stallman

For more information on how to run a subset of the tests, take a look at the nosetests docs.

See also the list of test classes and methods in tests/core.py.

Feel free to customize based on the extras available in setup.py

Pull Request Guidelines

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

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 the "Testing on Travis CI" section below). It will help you making sure you do not break the build with your PR and that you help increase coverage.
Please rebase your fork, squash commits, and resolve all conflicts.
Every pull request should have an associated JIRA. The JIRA link should also be contained in the PR description.
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.
Add an Apache License header to all new files
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.
The pull request should work for Python 2.7 and 3.5. If you need help writing code that works in both Python 2 and 3, see the documentation at the Python-Future project (the future package is an Airflow requirement and should be used where possible).
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. It is usually a good idea to lint locally as well using flake8 using flake8 airflow tests. git diff upstream/master -u -- "*.py" | flake8 --diff will return any changed files in your branch that require linting.
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:

Travis CI GitHub App (new version)
Travis CI GitHub Services (legacy version)

Travis CI GitHub App (new version)

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

Once installed, you can configure the Travis CI Authorized OAuth App at https://github.com/settings/connections/applications/88c5b97de2dbfc50f3ac.
If you are a GitHub admin, click the "Grant" button next to your organization; otherwise, click the "Request" button.
For the Travis CI Authorized OAuth App, you may have to grant access to the forked <organization>/airflow repo even though it is public.
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 it is not 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"

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 a 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

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Testing on Travis CI

Travis CI GitHub App (new version)

Travis CI GitHub Services (legacy version)

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

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Setting up the node / npm javascript environment

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Using npm to generate bundled files

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npm packages

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