airflow-looker

This is a collection of Airflow extensions to provide integration with Looker.

with DAG(dag_id='looker_update_datagroup', schedule_interval='@daily') as dag:
  LookerUpdateDataGroupByIDOperator(
    datagroup_id=123
  )

Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install airflow-looker

Usage

There is one operator currently implemented:

• LookerUpdateDataGroupByIDOperator
  • Calls the update_datagroup API. Accepts the following arguments:
    • datagroup_id
      • The ID of the datagroup to update. Required.
    • stale_before
      • Timestamp before which cache entries are considered stale. Defaults to now.

You can also use the hook directly. The two methods that are implemented for use are:

• call
  • Call the Looker API. Accepts the following arguments:
    • method
      • The method of the call (GET, POST, etc). Required.
    • endpoint
      • The endpoint to be called i.e. looks/run/1. Required.
    • data
      • Payload to be uploaded or request parameters. Required.
    • headers
      • Additional headers to be passed through as a dictionary. Optional.
• get_look_sql
  • Gets an SQL query from a Looker look resource and returns the SQL as a string. Accepts the following arguments:
    • look_id
      • Unique identifier for a look resource. Required.

Connection

To use either the operator or the hook you need to pass in a connection ID. This connection needs to have the the host, the login (client_id) and the password (client_secret) defined.

To create a connection, follow the Airflow documentation.

Building Locally

To install from the repository, it's recommended to first create a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

Install using pip:

pip install .

Testing

To run tests locally, first create a virtual environment (see Building Locally section)

Install dependencies:

pip install -e .[dev]

Run the tests:

python -m pytest tests/ -sv

Code style

This project uses flake8.

To check your code, first create a virtual environment (see Building Locally section):

python -m flake8 airflow_looker/ tests/ setup.py

License & Contributing

• This is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
• Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/gocardless/airflow-looker.

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