Airflow Plugin - Airflow Extended API

Airflow Extended API, which export airflow CLI command as RESTful API to extend the ability of airflow official API.

Deploy plugin

1. Download plugins zip from:

https://github.com/caoergou/airflow-extended-api/archive/master.zip

2. Check the plugins_floder configuration in airflow.cfg.
   If not, consider use airflow default plugin dir path {AIRFLOW_HOME}/plugins as plugin floder.
3. Unzip the plugins zip, move folder /plugins/extended_api/ to plugins_floder directory.

unzip airflow-extended-api-plugin.zip

cp -r airflow-rest-api-plugin/plugins/extended_api/* {AIRFLOW_PLUGINS_FOLDER}

4. Start services of the airflow webserver and the airflow scheduler.

airflow webserver -p 8080
airflow scheduler

Directory structure

• /plugins
  • /extended_api
    • /extended_api.py - Airflow plugins, expose functions as RESTful API.
    • /utils.py - API DTO class and function to execute CLI command.
    • /index.html - Airflow Extended API specification static front-end page.
    • /openapi.yaml - Airflow Extended API specification yaml file in OpenAPI Specification style.

Authentication And Security Warning

For convenience, these APIs does NOT require any authentication!

Therefore, if these APIs is directly exposed to the public network environment, it is equivalent to exposing the command line execution authority to public, which is a huge security risk.

So it For safety reasons, please think carefully about whether you need to keep this @csrf.exempt annotation.

Using the REST API

• clear_task
• run_task

clear_task

Description:

• use CLI command to clear a task for rerun.

Endpoint:

https://{AIRFLOW_HOST}:{AIRFLOW_PORT}/api/extended/clear

Method:

• POST

POST request Arguments:

Args for Airflow CLI command airflow tasks clear.

Parameter	Type	Description	Required
dagName	String	Name of DAG to clear	True
downstream	boolean	Whether to recursively clear downstream tasks. default value is false	False
startDate	String	Start of the time range for task instance to clear	True
endDate	String	End of the time range for task instance to clear	True
jobName	String	Regex of operator to clear	True
username	String	Username who call this api	False

Examples:

curl -X POST https://localhost:8080/api/extended/clear -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"dagName": "string","downstream": true,"endDate": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z","jobName": "string","startDate": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z","username": "Knowhere API"}'

response:

{
  "executed_command": "string",
  "exit_code": 0,
  "output_info": [
    "string"
  ],
  "error_info": [
    "string"
  ]
}

links

• Airflow configuration documentation
• Contact email
  • Eric CAO - caofuguo@iftech.io