[jira] [Closed] (AIRFLOW-5460) Why does airlfow allow multiple connections with the same connection id?

["Nikolas Vanderhoof (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-5460?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Nikolas Vanderhoof closed AIRFLOW-5460.
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    Resolution: Not A Problem

> Why does airlfow allow multiple connections with the same connection id?
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>                 Key: AIRFLOW-5460
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-5460
>             Project: Apache Airflow
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: core
>    Affects Versions: 1.10.5
>            Reporter: Nikolas Vanderhoof
>            Priority: Major
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> I tagged the issue as a Bug, but it's probably a feature that I just don't understand the reasoning behind. 
> I was working on creating a custom hook in airflow. I would expect that get_connection from BaseHook would return deterministically. To my surprise, it returns a randomly chosen connection from all connections with the given connection id. 
> My gut reaction to this: it seems like a bad design choice to allow users to specify multiple connections with the same id. If there is a compelling reason for allowing this, I would like to understand it, and at least broadcast that connections can share ids in the documentation so other users are not as surprised by the feature. 
> Not sure who to tag on this, please forgive any mis-tagging here. :)
> [~maxime.beauchemin@apache.org] [~kaxilnaik] [~higrys] [~ash] [~Fokko]



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