[jira] [Created] (AIRFLOW-1431) Cannot create connection for GCP using CLI

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

peay created AIRFLOW-1431:
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             Summary: Cannot create connection for GCP using CLI
                 Key: AIRFLOW-1431
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-1431
             Project: Apache Airflow
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: cli
    Affects Versions: Airflow 1.8
         Environment: Python 3
            Reporter: peay


{{airflow connections --add}} only takes an URI argument, and deduces the connection type from the scheme, and other fields from hostname, etc.

The connection type for the GCP connection is {{google_cloud_platform}}.

This is not a valid scheme according to {{urllib.parse.urlparse}}:

{code}
>>> from urllib.parse import urlparse
>>> urlparse("google_cloud_platform://hostname")
ParseResult(scheme='', netloc='', path='google_cloud_platform://hostname', params='', query='', fragment='')
>>> urlparse("platform://hostname")
ParseResult(scheme='platform', netloc='hostname', path='', params='', query='', fragment='')
{code}

See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986.html#section-3.1 which specifies {{scheme      = ALPHA *( ALPHA / DIGIT / "+" / "-" / "." )}}

 As a consequence, it is not currently possible to add GCP connections using the CLI.


Changing the connection name to {{gcp}} would solve it properly but may require lots of small modifications accross the codebase. Alternatively, 

{code}
if scheme == "gcp":
    schema = "google_cloud_platform"
{code}

right after after parsing should be a simple self-contained fix. There is already a similar fix in there for {{postgres -> postgresql}}. On the downside, this introduces a special case that would need to be documented.

A last option would be to add an argument to override the scheme from the URI. This would be backward compatible.

I'll be happy to contribute a PR if we can agree on a plan.



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