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I need to be able to access default_args defined as part of DAG definition in a Python Operator, python_callable. Maybe it's my unfamiliartiy with python or airflow in general, but could someone guide on how to achieve this.
Following is a code sample of what am trying to achieve
default_args = {
'owner': 'airflow',
'depends_on_past': False,
'email': 'xyz#xyz.com',
'email_on_failure': 'xyz#xyz.com',
'email_on_retry': False,
'retries': 1,
'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=5),
'start_date': datetime(2017, 5, 15, 23, 20),
'end_date': datetime(2017, 5, 16, 23, 45),
'touchfile_path': '/user/myname/touchfiles/',
}
dag = DAG(
'test',
default_args=default_args,
template_searchpath=['/Users/myname/Desktop/utils/airflow/resources'],
user_defined_macros=dict(SCHEMA_NAME='abc'),
#schedule_interval='*/2 * * * * ')
schedule_interval='#once')
def webhdfs_touchfile_create(ds, *args, **kwargs):
web_hdfs_hook = WebHDFSHook('webhdfs_default')
client = web_hdfs_hook.get_conn()
client.write("/user/myname/airflow_hdfs","stringToWrite")
pp.pprint(kwargs)
task1 = PythonOperator(
task_id='task1',
provide_context=True, #enabling this would allow to pass arguments automatically to your callable function
python_callable=webhdfs_touchfile_create,
templates_dict={'attr1': {{ default_args['touchfile_path'] }}},
dag=dag)
Since the template_dict for PythonOperator is the only attribute which jinja templating works, how can i retrieve the 'touchfile_path' paramter in there?