[jira] [Created] (AIRFLOW-1428) DagRun deadlocks when all tasks' dependencies have skipped state

["Conrad Lee (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Conrad Lee created AIRFLOW-1428:
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             Summary: DagRun deadlocks when all tasks' dependencies have skipped state
                 Key: AIRFLOW-1428
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-1428
             Project: Apache Airflow
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: DagRun, dependencies
    Affects Versions: 1.8.2
         Environment: LocalExecutor with postgres
            Reporter: Conrad Lee
            Assignee: Bolke de Bruin
            Priority: Critical


In controlling which tasks are executed in a DagRun, it's common for tasks to skip themselves, e.g., by raising an AirflowSkipException.  One controls how skips propagate using trigger rules.    It is currently unclear to me how to propagate skipped states without causing the DagRun to deadlock.

Consider the following simple example

{code}
def raise_skip():
    raise AirflowSkipException

skip_op = PythonOperator(
    task_id='skip_op',
    python_callable=raise_skip,
    dag=dag)

skipped_child_op = DummyOperator(task_id='skipped_child_op', dag=dag)

skip_op.set_downstream(skipped_child_op)
{code}

When I run the code above, the DagRun deadlocks.  I have dug into why:
* The deadlock is detected by DagRun.update_state [here](https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/blob/master/airflow/models.py#L4290-L4293).  
* That's raised because `no_dependencies_met` is `True`, when it should be `False`
* no_dependencies_met is True because when you call `skipped_child_op.get_failed_dep_statuses()`, it returns ` [TIDepStatus(dep_name='Trigger Rule', passed=False, reason="Task's trigger rule 'all_success' requires all upstream tasks to have succeeded, but found 1 non-success(es). upstream_tasks_state={'successes': 0, 'skipped': 1, 'failed': 0, 'upstream_failed': 0, 'done': 1}, upstream_task_ids=['metas_update_skipper']")]`

So basically, because `skipped_child_op`'s parent is skipped, it is considered failed.  I have looked for a trigger rule that would cause skipped parents to be not failed, but that doesn't seem to exist.  I don't want to use `ALL_DONE` because I want `skipped_child_op` to be skipped.  Thus, there seems to be no way for me to properly implement this very simply DAG.

It seems that the airflow community has gone back and forth on how to handle skipped tasks--see [AIRFLOW-983](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-983), [AIRFLOW-992](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-992), and [AIRFLOW-719](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-719).  There seems to be support for adding a trigger rule called `ALL_SUCCESS_OR_SKIPPED`, but nobody has implemented it.



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