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Nikolas Vanderhoof commented on AIRFLOW-5460:
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Ah yes that does makes sense in that case. Thanks for the prompt explanation!
[~higrys]
> 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
>
> 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.beauche...@apache.org] [~kaxilnaik] [~higrys] [~ash] [~Fokko]
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