Hey Ash,

What do you think is the downside of changing all the packages to implicit
Except the -6000 or so useless comments in empty __init__.py ?

J.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 11:34 AM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> And to be clear: I'd rather we didn't make everything an implicit
> namespace package, but only the "official" extension points of
> airflow.providers. I cant immediately think of a reason to make anything
> else a namespace package, and limiting this to a single place makes the
> change smaller (tiny even?) and also easier to reason about where modules
> might be coming from.
>
> What have I not thought about?
> On Feb 5 2020, at 10:31 am, Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Are you talking about/test with making _ALL_ packages implicit
> namespaces?
> >
> > I would think that we would only make airflow.providers an implicit
> package, but leave all the sub packages as explicit packages: i.e. this:
> > airflow/__init__.py
> > airflow/utils/__init__.py
> > airflow/providers/ (no __init__.py)
> > airflow/providers/google/__init__.py
> >
> > Does limiting the implicit namespace to just airflow.providers address
> 1+2+3?
> > -a
> > On Feb 5 2020, at 10:27 am, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > TL;DR; I am asking for opinions on some of the changes required to
> introduce implicit native package support. This is the easiest way to make
> backports of master providers packages to 1.10.x.
> > >
> > >
> > > NOTE!: @Ash Berlin-Taylor (mailto:[email protected]) @Fokko Driesprong
> (mailto:[email protected]) @Felix Uellendall (mailto:[email protected])
> @Kamil Breguła (mailto:[email protected]) @Kaxil Naik (mailto:
> [email protected]) @[email protected] (mailto:
> [email protected]) @Philippe Gagnon (mailto:
> [email protected]) - there is one point 1a) below that I would like
> to get your input.
> > >
> > > As AIP-21 (import paths) import path move is done we have an important
> step to complete - we should switch to implicit "native" packages. It boils
> down to removal of empty (only with comment licences) __init__.py files and
> relying on python 3.3+ capability of finding packages without having to add
> __init_.py files. This is needed in order to get backported packaged to be
> prepared for 1.10.* series. I worked on it during the last few days - to
> make sure this can be done and I am close to have it. Close enough to know
> I can solve all the remaining problems. I wanted to check that we can do it
> for almost all the packages. I already solved most of the initial problems
> but I have some places where I think I need community opinion on the way we
> should solve them:
> > >
> > > The PR that has the changes is here:
> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/7279/files - it's not 100% ready
> yet and I want to split it into a few separate PRs so do not comment it
> there yet - I extracted the most important changes here and wanted to ask
> your opinion where I have doubts:
> > >
> > > 1) Module names identical to some top-level package names (for example
> email.py):
> > >
> > > Some of the module names (for example email.py) has to be changed. The
> problem with implicit packages is that if local module is named the same as
> the top level package, importing the top-level package from it does not
> work:
> > >
> > > email.py:
> > > ...
> > > import email <- this won't work - module imports itself.
> > >
> > > For now in my PR i renamed the modules to be airflow_<old_name>.py or
> <old_name>_utils.py : There are such modules (mostly hooks):
> > > email -> email_utils, (utils)
> > >
> > > cassandra -> airflow_cassandra
> > >
> > > cloudant -> airflow_cloudant
> > >
> > > dataproc -> airflow_dataproc
> > >
> > > grpc -> airlfow_grpc
> > >
> > > hdfs -> airflow_hdfs
> > >
> > > jira -> airflow_jira
> > >
> > > kerberos -> kerberos_security
> > >
> > > redis -> airflow_redis
> > >
> > > sendgrid -> airflow_sendgrid
> > >
> > > snowflake -> airflow_snowflake
> > >
> > > winrm -> airflow_winrm (operator)
> > >
> > > datadog -> airflow_datatog(sensor)
> > >
> > > sqlalchemy -> sqlalchemy_utils (utils)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I can also change it to grpc_hooks.py, datadog_sensors.py etc. Or
> maybe someone knows an easy way how to keep the module name and implicit
> packages?
> > >
> > > I guess this is not a big problem to change it this way - we anyhow
> have changed import paths for those. The only two problems with this are:
> > > a) email was used in "email_backend" configuration : email_backend =
> airflow.utils.email.send_email_smtp
> > > but we can solve it by handling that as special case, raising
> deprecation warning and converting it to
> airflow.utils.email_utils.send_email_smtp
> > > b) we introduce slight inconsistency in hook/operator/sensor names.
> > >
> > > 2) Mypy fails when checking individual (duplicated) module names
> > >
> > > Mypy does not work well with duplicate module names in implicit
> packages (https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy/issues/5) and with
> AIP-21 we have plenty of them. Repeating modules (http.py in both operators
> and hooks for example) cause it to fail in case they are provided as
> parameters (in case of incremental mypy check in pre-commits. I had to
> change it then so that mypy always check 'airflow' and 'test' packages
> instead - which makes pre-commit check slightly slower (few seconds).
> > >
> > > 3) _hooks.py/_operators.py/_sensors.py (
> http://hooks.py/_operators.py/_sensors.py) suffix: Some thought resulting
> from above 1) and 2):
> > >
> > > I did not want to open pandora's box again but I think removal of
> _hooks, _operators, _sensors from the module name might not have been the
> best decision. While it removes some duplication in module name, it
> actually introduces duplicate module names and (as it is with mypy) it
> might be a problem in the future. I think now we should change it back to
> add the suffixes. If we want to reverse it - this is the last moment we can
> do it (and we still can easily). I would love some quick opinion/voting for
> that - especially those who voted in AIP-21 but others are welcome as well:
> @Ash Berlin-Taylor (mailto:[email protected]) @Fokko Driesprong (mailto:
> [email protected]) @Felix Uellendall (mailto:[email protected]) @Kamil
> Breguła (mailto:[email protected]) @Kaxil Naik (mailto:
> [email protected]) @[email protected] (mailto:
> [email protected]) @Philippe Gagnon (mailto:
> [email protected]) - this was "Case 2" in the original AIP-21
> proposal.
> > >
> > > WDYT?
> > >
> > > 4) Test module names:
> > >
> > > I had to change all test module name for providers. For example: .
> Pytest does not like repeating implicit test module names. It throws error
> "duplicate test module). For example:
> > > tests/providers/http/hooks/test_http.py →
> tests/providers/http/hooks/test_http_hooks.py (
> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/7279/files#diff-593e762ce1d79c250426a27b6fb28908
> )
> > >
> > >
> > > (basically I added hooks/operators/sensors everywhere). It is easy and
> fully automated and it has no impact at all on the main code base, so I
> think this is a super-safe change. t The nice thing is that it makes it
> easier to understand what kind of tests you are looking at immediately and.
> That also hints that maybe _hooks.py, _operators.py, _sensors.py in
> hooks/operators/sensors could have been a better choice (see 2 a) )
> > >
> > > 5) Doc generation
> > >
> > > Autoapi doc generation has not yet released implicit package support
> (it is in master only). However I managed to monkey-patch 1.2.1 (latest)
> version to add support by cherry-picking the changes (there are literally
> few methods changed there -
> https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx-autoapi/pull/178) and when new
> version is released we will be able to get rid of monkey-patching . I am
> still resolving a few import issues in that newest version but I am
> confident I can fix or workaround all issues with it.
> > > I don't expect this to be a problem - it is only in the doc generation
> code, not the main application code.
> > >
> > > I verified that pytest test discovery works fine, and that airflow can
> be installed and works with implicit packages. Let me know what you think
> about it and I would love to merge it as soon as possible (rebasing this
> for a long time might be painful).
> > >
> > > J.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 9:22 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > > I've read a bit more about PEP-0420 so some more extracted
> information:
> > > >
> > > > - implicit namespace packages are very similar to regular packages.
> The notable difference is that they can be loaded from several directories
> (so you can have modules in the same package but coming from different
> physical directories), so no __file__ is defined for the package (it is
> still defined for modules),
> > > >
> > > > - pytest should have no problems. It has indeed (
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50174130/how-do-i-pytest-a-project-using-pep-420-namespace-packages)
> problems with implicit packages when tests are co-located with their tested
> modules (module.py, module_test.py) but we are not in this situation.
> > > >
> > > > - I do not see how it could be slower - I have not found any
> benchmarking yet (but I have not found any complaints about it either). I
> looked at the loading algorithm for PEP-420 - it traverses all the
> directory structure available on the PYTHONPATH bo so does the "standard"
> mechanism. And we would not have to parse and load all the 140 licence-only
> __init__.py. The presence of module in the package is based on the presence
> of "<module>.py" in the right folder. If we would have several packages
> elsewhere that might become a bit slower, but I think reading files is so
> much slower than scanning directories that - if anything - we will be
> faster (just opening and closing those __init__.files will take quite some
> time :). We can do some benchmarking before and after to be sure.
> > > >
> > > > Side comment: I am not 100% sure, but after reading PEP-420
> intuition tells me that maybe implicit packages can help in solving
> relative imports problems that some of our user raised . I saw recently
> several users had problems with relative imports used in DAGs. We are
> loading the DAGs in a specific way and in implicit packages, the __repr__
> of modules parent is dynamic - based on the location of the file rather
> than based on the module of the file, so it's likely if we encourage dag
> developers also to use implicit packages, it might actually solve the
> relative imports case.
> > > >
> > > > J.
> > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 4:29 PM Daniel Imberman <
> [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > > > Fine by me if it doesn’t break anything. I’m always on the side of
> less code :).
> > > > >
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> > > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:12 AM, Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > > > Probably worth it, but things to check:
> > > > >
> > > > > - if nose or pytest needs them under tests/ to find all the tests
> > > > > - if not having the init files slows down pythons package importer
> as it searches more paths?
> > > > >
> > > > > -a
> > > > > > On 22 Nov 2019, at 12:06, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There is one implementation detail in AIP-21 that I continue to
> have
> > > > > > questions about, and I wanted to ask community about it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Since we moved to Python 3, we have the option of using implicit
> namespace
> > > > > > packages.
> > > > > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/ . We have now
> grouping per folder
> > > > > > for services, so it would require a lot more __init__.py files
> if we
> > > > > > continue using them.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The implicit naming boils down to not requiring __init__.py
> files if no
> > > > > > initialisation of package is needed. We could do it consistently
> for all
> > > > > > code which is "internal" to airflow. This means that most
> packages will not
> > > > > > have __init__.py there will be few exceptions like 'airflow',
> > > > > > 'airflow.modules' and likely few others with the __init__.py.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I did a quick check and we have only 25 _init_.py with some
> logic -
> > > > > > remaining ~ 140 could be removed as they only contain comments.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > find . -name '__init__.py' | xargs grep -le '^[^#].*' | wc -l
> > > > > > 25
> > > > > > find . -name '__init__.py' |wc -l
> > > > > > 164
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Those are the files that will be left:
> > > > > > ./tests/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./tests/utils/log/elasticmock/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./tests/utils/log/elasticmock/utilities/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./tests/models/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./tests/task/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/sensors/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/operators/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/_vendor/nvd3/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/_vendor/slugify/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/serialization/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/models/__init__.py
> > > > > >
> ./airflow/www/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/ti_deps/deps/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/macros/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/executors/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/lineage/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/lineage/backend/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/lineage/backend/atlas/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/hooks/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/task/task_runner/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/api/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/api/common/experimental/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/api/client/__init__.py
> > > > > > ./airflow/jobs/__init__.py
> > > > > >
> > > > > > WDYT?
> > > > > >
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> > > > > > Jarek Potiuk
> > > > > > Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
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> > > > > > M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
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