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[jira] [Commented] (AIRFLOW-2843) ExternalTaskSensor: Add option to cease waiting immediately if the external DAG/task doesn't exist

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Wesley commented on AIRFLOW-2843:
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Using the operator stumbled upon the case where the `external_dag_id` and `external_task_id` exist but the DAG is disabled, so the ExternalTaskSensor task instance keep polling for a DagRun that does not exist.

Perhaps the `check_existence` should check DagRun instead? or the name should be more specific like `check_dag_existence`/ `check_task_existence`?

What you guys think about this use case?

 

> ExternalTaskSensor: Add option to cease waiting immediately if the external DAG/task doesn't exist
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AIRFLOW-2843
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-2843
>             Project: Apache Airflow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: operators
>            Reporter: Xiaodong DENG
>            Assignee: Xiaodong DENG
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.10.3
>
>
> h2. Background
> *ExternalTaskSensor* will keep waiting (given restrictions of retries, poke_interval, etc), even if the external DAG/task specified doesn't exist at all. In some cases, this waiting may still make sense as new DAG may backfill.
> But it may be good to provide an option to cease waiting immediately if the external DAG/task specified doesn't exist.
> h2. Proposal
> Provide an argument "check_existence". Set to *True* to check if the external DAG/task exists, and immediately cease waiting if the external DAG/task does not exist.
> The default value is set to *False* (no check or ceasing will happen) so it will not affect any existing DAGs or user expectation.



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