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Keep the triggerer running when a trigger constructor raises - #72758

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@rjgoyln rjgoyln commented Sep 9, 2026 •

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A trigger whose constructor raises anything but TypeError while the triggerer re-creates it stops the whole triggerer: the exception escapes create_triggers, the runner subprocess exits, and the supervisor exits with it. After a restart the same trigger is picked up again, so the triggerer crash-loops until the task is cleared. Failures while decrypting or decoding the stored kwargs, or while rebuilding the runtime task instance and template context for a task started from a trigger, take the same path.

  • Fail only the offending trigger when its constructor raises, instead of stopping the runner.
  • Cover it with a test where one trigger's constructor raises and a second trigger still starts.

A bad classpath a few lines above already fails only that trigger; the constructor guard now does the same, stopping at Exception so cancellation and shutdown still reach the runner loop. The TypeError-only guard from #31999 came from a readability suggestion in review, not from a reason to let other exceptions through.


Was generative AI tooling used to co-author this PR?
  • Yes — Claude Code (Fable 5.1)

Generated-by: Claude Code (Fable 5.1) following the guidelines

Instantiating a trigger in the runner only contained TypeError. Any other
exception raised by a trigger's __init__, or while decrypting and decoding
its kwargs, escaped the runner loop, killed the TriggerRunner subprocess and
took the whole triggerer down. Once restarted, the triggerer picked the same
trigger up again and crashed in a loop until the task was cleared.

Narrowing the guard to TypeError in apache#31999 was a readability choice rather
than a design decision, and the class-loading step a few lines above already
fails only the offending trigger. Do the same for instantiation, catching
Exception rather than BaseException so cancellation and shutdown still reach
the runner loop, and one bad trigger never stops the others.
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potiuk commented Sep 25, 2026

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Hello @rjgoyln - thank you for your contributions to Apache Airflow!

The Airflow community has introduced a limit of 5 open pull requests at a time for contributors without write access to the repository. You currently have 24 open pull requests, so - as a one-time step of introducing the limit - we closed the ones where maintainers have not engaged yet:

These pull requests stay open because maintainers are already engaged in them - they count towards your limit:

This is not a judgement of you or of your changes. We never told contributors before that opening many pull requests at once was a problem, so there is nothing to feel bad about - and nothing is lost: your branches, commits and the review history stay where they are.

What we ask you to do is to make your first prioritization decision: choose which of the pull requests above matter most to you, and reopen them (up to 5 open at a time, including the ones still open) with the "Reopen pull request" button or gh pr reopen <PR_NUMBER> --repo apache/airflow. Reopen the ones you are ready to follow through - keep them rebased, respond to review comments and fix failing checks.

While your pull requests are waiting for review, the most valuable thing you can do is help in other ways - reviewing other contributors' pull requests, helping with issues, and taking part in the discussions on the devlist and Slack.

Why we introduced the limit, what it means for you and how to reopen or restore a pull request is explained in https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/contributing-docs/32_open_pull_request_limit.rst.


Drafted-by: Claude Code (Opus 5); reviewed by @potiuk before posting

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