Since each provider will self contained, it will be easier for isolation
and moving providers one-by-one to Airflow 3.

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 at 00:04, Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> wrote:

> I think it will be better to keep it.
>
> The reason we have varying levels were to group things together - mainly
> Apache related providers, but also Microsoft.
>
> And we already have a number of mappings and conventions to handle that.
> For example provider I'd mapping to dirs (apache.beam -> apache/beam), and
> 'apache-airflow-providers-apache-beam' as package na e  and
> airflow/providers/apache/beam as packages inside the distribution. Those
> will remain as they are - we cannot change them without breaking
> compatibility.
>
> So if we change it to a flat structure we will have some inconsistencies -
> in some cases it will be single folder in others (packages) those will be
> two folders.
>
> I think it will be more harm than good if we get rid of the 'folder'
> structures - some of the code in breeze will have to treat those
> differently as well. Nothing extraordinary and very complex but more
> complex-ish than it should be - already on top of handling potentially
> nested folders
>
> So my preference would be to stay with apache/beam - it's just more
> consistently handling the case where provider packages can be one-level
> nested
>
> J
>
>
> wt., 7 sty 2025, 19:00 użytkownik Vincent Beck <vincb...@apache.org>
> napisał:
>
> > Good question. I always found it confusing to have some providers at
> > different level. Examples:
> > - "airbyte" in "providers" directory (I would qualify it as "regular"
> > provider)
> > - "hive" in "providers/apache"
> > - "amazon" in "providers" but which contains only one sub directory "aws"
> >
> > I would be in favor of using "-" instead of "/" so that all providers are
> > at the same level.
> >
> >
> > On 2025/01/07 16:38:10 Ash Berlin-Taylor wrote:
> > > +1 one to this on general terms, it will hopefully reduce a lot of the
> > boilerplate we need.
> > >
> > > As for the amazon/aws example specifically that does bring up a
> > question, should we have `/` or `-`.. to give some examples:
> > >
> > > cncf kubernetes: ./providers/cncf/kubernetes or
> > ./providers/cncf-kubernetes
> > > Apache hive: ./providers/apache/hive or ./providers/apache-hive
> > > AWS: ./providers/amazon/aws or ./providers/amazon-aws
> > >
> > > There is no requirement from python etc on one form or the other (as
> > it’s just a folder, not part of the module name), so it’s what ever makes
> > most sense to us.
> > >
> > > Jarek and Dennis (and others): what are your preferences on these
> styles?
> > >
> > > -ash
> > >
> > > > On 6 Jan 2025, at 22:51, Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Oh. . And one other benefit of it will be that we will be able to get
> > rid
> > > > of about 40% of the "Providers Manager" code. Currently, in Providers
> > > > manager we have a lot of "ifs" that make it possible to use providers
> > in
> > > > breeze and local environment from the sources. In "production"
> > installation
> > > > we are using "get_provider_info"  entry points to discover providers
> > and
> > > > discover if provider is installed, but when you use current providers
> > > > installed in Breeze to inside "airflow", we rely on `provider.yaml`
> to
> > be
> > > > present in the "airflow.providers.PROVIDER_ID" path - so we
> effectively
> > > > have two paths of discovering information about the providers
> > installed.
> > > >
> > > > After all providers are migrated to the new structure, all providers
> > are
> > > > separate "distributions" - and when you run `uv sync`  (which will
> > install
> > > > all providers thanks to workspace feature) or `pip install -e
> > > > ./providers/aws` (which you will have to do manually to work on the
> > > > provider - if you use `pip` rather than uv) - then we will not have
> to
> > use
> > > > the separate path to read provider.yaml, because the right entrypoint
> > for
> > > > the provider will be installed as well - so we will be able to get
> rid
> > of
> > > > quite some code that is currently only used in airflow development
> > > > environment.
> > > >
> > > > J.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Those are very good questions :)
> > > >>
> > > >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM Ferruzzi, Dennis
> > > >> <ferru...@amazon.com.invalid> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> To clarify that I understand your diagram correctly, let's say you
> > clone
> > > >>> the Airflow repo to ~/workspace/airflow/.  Does this mean that the
> > AWS Glue
> > > >>> Hook which used to live at
> > > >>> ~/workspace/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/hooks/glue.py (as a random
> > > >>> example) will be located at
> > > >>>
> >
> ~/workspace/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/src/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/hooks/glue.py?
> > > >>> That feels unnecessarily repetitive to me, maybe it makes sense but
> > I'm
> > > >>> missing the context?
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> Yes - it means that there is this repetitiveness but for a good
> > reason -
> > > >> those two "amazon/aws" serve different purpose:
> > > >>
> > > >> * The first "providers/amazon/aws" is just where the whole provider
> > > >> "complete project" is stored - it's basically a directory where "aws
> > > >> provider" is stored, a convenient folder to locate it in, that makes
> > it
> > > >> separate from other providers
> > > >> * The second "src/airflow/providers/amazon/aws" - is the python
> > > >> package where the source files is stored - this is how (inside the
> > > >> sub-folder) you tell the actual python "import" to look for the
> > sources.
> > > >>
> > > >> .What really matters is that (eventually)
> > > >> `~/workspace/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/` can be treated as a
> > completely
> > > >> separate python project - a source of a "standalone" provider python
> > > >> project.
> > > >> There is a "pyproject.toml" file at the root of it and if you do
> this
> > (for
> > > >> example):
> > > >>
> > > >> cd providers/amazon/aws/
> > > >> uv sync
> > > >>
> > > >> And with it you will be able to work on AWS provider exclusively as
> a
> > > >> separate project (this is not yet complete with the move - tests are
> > not
> > > >> entirely possible to run today - but it will be possible as next
> step
> > - I
> > > >> explained it in
> > > >>
> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/45259#issuecomment-2572427916
> > > >>
> > > >> This has a number of benefits, but one of them is that you will be
> > able to
> > > >> build provider by just running `build` command of your favourite
> > > >> PEP-standard compliant frontend:
> > > >>
> > > >> cd providers/amazon/aws/
> > > >> `uv build` (or `hatch build` or `poetry build` or `flit build` )....
> > > >>
> > > >> This will create  the provider package inside the `dist" folder. I
> > just
> > > >> did it in my PR with `uv` in the first "airbyte` project:
> > > >>
> > > >> root@d74b3136d62f:/opt/airflow/providers/airbyte# uv build
> > > >> Building source distribution...
> > > >> Building wheel from source distribution...
> > > >> Successfully built
> dist/apache_airflow_providers_airbyte-5.0.0.tar.gz
> > > >> Successfully built
> > > >> dist/apache_airflow_providers_airbyte-5.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
> > > >>
> > > >> That's it. That also allows cases like installing provider packages
> > using
> > > >> git URLs - which I used earlier today to test if the incoming PR of
> > > >> pygments is actually solving the problem we had yesteday
> > > >> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/45416  (basically we just
> > make our
> > > >> provider packages "standard" python packages that all the tools
> > support.
> > > >> Anyone who would like to install a commit, hash or branch version of
> > the
> > > >> "airbyte" package from main version of Airflow repo will be able to
> > do:
> > > >>
> > > >> pip install "apache-airflow-providers-airbyte @ git+
> > > >> https://github.com/apache/airflow.git/providers/airbyte@COMMIT_ID";
> > > >>
> > > >> Currently in order to create the package we need to manually extract
> > the
> > > >> "amazon" subtree, copy it elsewhere, prepare dynamically some files
> > > >> (pyproject.toml, README.rst and few others) and only then we  build
> > the
> > > >> package. All this - copying file structure, creating new files,
> > running the
> > > >> build command after and finally deleting the copied files is now -
> > > >> dynamically and under-the-hood created by "breeze release-management
> > > >> prepare-provider-packages" command. With this change, the directory
> > > >> structure in `git` repo of ours is totally standard and allows us
> (and
> > > >> anyone else) to build the package directly from it.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> And what is the plan for system tests?   As part of this
> > reorganization,
> > > >>> could they be moved into providers/{PROVIDER_ID}/tests/system?
> That
> > seems
> > > >>> more intuitive to me than their current location in
> > > >>> providers/tests/system/{PROVIDER_ID}/example_foo.py.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >> Oh yeah - I missed that in the original structure as the "airbyte"
> > > >> provider (that I chose as first one) did not contain the "system"
> > tests -
> > > >> but one of the two providers after that i was planning to make sure
> > system
> > > >> tests are covered. They are supposed to be moved to "tests/system"
> of
> > > >> course - Elad had similar question and I also explained it in detail
> > in
> > > >>
> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/45259#issuecomment-2572427916
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> I hope it answers the questions. If not - I am happy to add more
> > > >> clarifications :)
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>> J.
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > >
> > >
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