I come across one issue while running DAG in airflow. my code is working in two scenarios where is failing for one.
below are my scenarios,
Manual trigger with input - Running Fine
Manual trigger without input - Running Fine
Scheduled Run - Failing
Below is my code:
def decide_the_flow(**kwargs):
cleanup=kwargs['dag_run'].conf.get('cleanup','N')
print("IP is :",cleanup)
return cleanup
I am getting below error,
cleanup=kwargs['dag_run'].conf.get('cleanup','N')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'
I tried to define default variables like,
default_dag_args = {
'start_date':days_ago(0),
'params': {
"cleanup": "N"
},
'retries': 0
}
but it wont work.
I am using BranchPythonOperator to call this function.
Scheduling : enter image description here
Can anyone please guide me here. what I am missing ?
For workaround i am using below code,
try:
cleanup=kwargs['dag_run'].conf.get('cleanup','N')
except:
cleanup="N"
You can access the parameters from the context dict params, because airflow defines the default values on this dict after copying the dict dag_run.conf and checking if there is something missing:
from datetime import datetime
from airflow import DAG
from airflow.operators.empty import EmptyOperator
from airflow.operators.python import BranchPythonOperator
def decide_the_flow(**kwargs):
cleanup = kwargs['params']["cleanup"]
print(f"IP is : {cleanup}")
return cleanup
with DAG(
dag_id='airflow_params',
start_date=datetime(2022, 8, 25),
schedule_interval="* * * * *",
params={
"cleanup": "N",
},
catchup=False
) as dag:
branch_task = BranchPythonOperator(
task_id='test_param',
python_callable=decide_the_flow
)
task_n = EmptyOperator(task_id="N")
task_m = EmptyOperator(task_id="M")
branch_task >> [task_n, task_m]
I just tested it in scheduled and manual (with and without conf) runs, it works fine.
I just started with Airflow DAG and encountered a strange issue with the tool. I am using airflow version 2.3.3 with SequentialExecutor.
The script I Used:
import datetime
from airflow import DAG
from airflow.operators.python import PythonOperator
dag_args = {
'owner': 'hao',
'retries': 2,
'retry_delay': datetime.timedelta(minutes=1)
}
with DAG(
dag_id='dependency_experiment',
default_args=dag_args,
description='experiment the dag task denpendency expression',
start_date=datetime.datetime.now(),
schedule_interval='#daily',
dagrun_timeout=datetime.timedelta(seconds=10),
) as dag:
pyOp = PythonOperator(
task_id='pyOp',
python_callable=lambda x: haha * x,
op_kwargs={'x': 10}
)
pyOp
The Log Snippit of This Task:
NameError: name 'haha' is not defined
[2022-07-27, 18:19:34 EDT] {taskinstance.py:1415} INFO - Marking task as UP_FOR_RETRY. dag_id=dependency_experiment, task_id=pyOp, execution_date=20220728T021932, start_date=20220728T021934, end_date=20220728T021934
[2022-07-27, 18:19:34 EDT] {standard_task_runner.py:92} ERROR - Failed to execute job 44 for task pyOp (name 'haha' is not defined; 19405)
[2022-07-27, 18:19:34 EDT] {local_task_job.py:156} INFO - Task exited with return code 1
[2022-07-27, 18:19:34 EDT] {local_task_job.py:273} INFO - 0 downstream tasks scheduled from follow-on schedule check
Problem:
I purposefully defined a PythonOperator, which would fail. When I put the script on DAG, the task raised an exception as expected; however, the status for this task is always skipped. I cannot figure out why the task didn't show a failed status as expected. Any suggestions will be much appreciated.
It's because you are defining 'retries' and 'retry_delay' in your dag_args dictionary.
From the Docs:
default_args (Optional[Dict]) – A dictionary of default parameters to be used as constructor keyword parameters when initialising operators. Note that operators have the same hook, and precede those defined here, meaning that if your dict contains ‘depends_on_past’: True here and ‘depends_on_past’: False in the operator’s call default_args, the actual value will be False.
When you set the 'retries' to a value, Airflow thinks that the Task would be retried in an other time. So it shows it in UI as skipped.
If you delete 'retries' and 'retry_delay' from the dag_args, you'll see that task set to failed when you try to initiate the DAG.
When I ran your code in the logs I see:
INFO - Marking task as UP_FOR_RETRY. dag_id=dependency_experiment, task_id=pyOp, execution_date=20220729T060953, start_date=20220729T060953, end_date=20220729T060953
After I delete the 'retries' and 'retry_delay' the same log becomes:
INFO - Marking task as FAILED. dag_id=dependency_experiment, task_id=pyOp, execution_date=20220729T061031, start_date=20220729T061031, end_date=20220729T061031
I am able to run Spark job using BashOperator but I want to use SparkSubmitOperator for it using Spark standalone mode.
Here's my DAG for SparkSubmitOperator and stack-trace
args = {
'owner': 'airflow',
'start_date': datetime(2018, 5, 24)
}
dag = DAG('spark_job', default_args=args, schedule_interval="*/10 * * * *")
operator = SparkSubmitOperator(
task_id='spark_submit_job',
application='/home/ubuntu/test.py',
total_executor_cores='1',
executor_cores='1',
executor_memory='2g',
num_executors='1',
name='airflow-spark',
verbose=False,
driver_memory='1g',
conf={'master':'spark://xx.xx.xx.xx:7077'},
dag=dag,
)
Looking at source for spark_submit_hook it seems _resolve_connection() always sets master=yarn. How can I change master properties value by Spark standalone master URL? Which properties I can set to run Spark job in standalone mode?
You can either create a new connection using the Airflow Web UI or change the spark-default connection.
Master can be local, yarn, spark://HOST:PORT, mesos://HOST:PORT and k8s://https://<HOST>:<PORT>.
You can also supply the following commands in the extras:
{"queue": "root.default", "deploy_mode": "cluster", "spark_home": "", "spark_binary": "spark-submit", "namespace": "default"}
Either the "spark-submit" binary should be in the PATH or the spark-home is set in the extra on the connection.
I'm running 5 DAG's which have generated a total of about 6GB of log data in the base_log_folder over a months period. I just added a remote_base_log_folder but it seems it does not exclude logging to the base_log_folder.
Is there anyway to automatically remove old log files, rotate them or force airflow to not log on disk (base_log_folder) only in remote storage?
Please refer https://github.com/teamclairvoyant/airflow-maintenance-dags
This plugin has DAGs that can kill halted tasks and log-cleanups.
You can grab the concepts and can come up with a new DAG that can cleanup as per your requirement.
We remove the Task logs by implementing our own FileTaskHandler, and then pointing to it in the airflow.cfg. So, we overwrite the default LogHandler to keep only N task logs, without scheduling additional DAGs.
We are using Airflow==1.10.1.
[core]
logging_config_class = log_config.LOGGING_CONFIG
log_config.LOGGING_CONFIG
BASE_LOG_FOLDER = conf.get('core', 'BASE_LOG_FOLDER')
FOLDER_TASK_TEMPLATE = '{{ ti.dag_id }}/{{ ti.task_id }}'
FILENAME_TEMPLATE = '{{ ti.dag_id }}/{{ ti.task_id }}/{{ ts }}/{{ try_number }}.log'
LOGGING_CONFIG = {
'formatters': {},
'handlers': {
'...': {},
'task': {
'class': 'file_task_handler.FileTaskRotationHandler',
'formatter': 'airflow.job',
'base_log_folder': os.path.expanduser(BASE_LOG_FOLDER),
'filename_template': FILENAME_TEMPLATE,
'folder_task_template': FOLDER_TASK_TEMPLATE,
'retention': 20
},
'...': {}
},
'loggers': {
'airflow.task': {
'handlers': ['task'],
'level': JOB_LOG_LEVEL,
'propagate': False,
},
'airflow.task_runner': {
'handlers': ['task'],
'level': LOG_LEVEL,
'propagate': True,
},
'...': {}
}
}
file_task_handler.FileTaskRotationHandler
import os
import shutil
from airflow.utils.helpers import parse_template_string
from airflow.utils.log.file_task_handler import FileTaskHandler
class FileTaskRotationHandler(FileTaskHandler):
def __init__(self, base_log_folder, filename_template, folder_task_template, retention):
"""
:param base_log_folder: Base log folder to place logs.
:param filename_template: template filename string.
:param folder_task_template: template folder task path.
:param retention: Number of folder logs to keep
"""
super(FileTaskRotationHandler, self).__init__(base_log_folder, filename_template)
self.retention = retention
self.folder_task_template, self.folder_task_template_jinja_template = \
parse_template_string(folder_task_template)
#staticmethod
def _get_directories(path='.'):
return next(os.walk(path))[1]
def _render_folder_task_path(self, ti):
if self.folder_task_template_jinja_template:
jinja_context = ti.get_template_context()
return self.folder_task_template_jinja_template.render(**jinja_context)
return self.folder_task_template.format(dag_id=ti.dag_id, task_id=ti.task_id)
def _init_file(self, ti):
relative_path = self._render_folder_task_path(ti)
folder_task_path = os.path.join(self.local_base, relative_path)
subfolders = self._get_directories(folder_task_path)
to_remove = set(subfolders) - set(subfolders[-self.retention:])
for dir_to_remove in to_remove:
full_dir_to_remove = os.path.join(folder_task_path, dir_to_remove)
print('Removing', full_dir_to_remove)
shutil.rmtree(full_dir_to_remove)
return FileTaskHandler._init_file(self, ti)
Airflow maintainers don't think truncating logs is a part of airflow core logic, to see this, and then in this issue, maintainers suggest to change LOG_LEVEL avoid too many log data.
And in this PR, we can learn how to change log level in airflow.cfg.
good luck.
I know it sounds savage, but have you tried pointing base_log_folder to /dev/null? I use Airflow as a part of a container, so I don't care about the files either, as long as the logger pipe to STDOUT as well.
Not sure how well this plays with S3 though.
For your concrete problems, I have some suggestions.
For those, you would always need a specialized logging config as described in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54195537/2668430
automatically remove old log files and rotate them
I don't have any practical experience with the TimedRotatingFileHandler from the Python standard library yet, but you might give it a try:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.handlers.html#timedrotatingfilehandler
It not only offers to rotate your files based on a time interval, but if you specify the backupCount parameter, it even deletes your old log files:
If backupCount is nonzero, at most backupCount files will be kept, and if more would be created when rollover occurs, the oldest one is deleted. The deletion logic uses the interval to determine which files to delete, so changing the interval may leave old files lying around.
Which sounds pretty much like the best solution for your first problem.
force airflow to not log on disk (base_log_folder), but only in remote storage?
In this case you should specify the logging config in such a way that you do not have any logging handlers that write to a file, i.e. remove all FileHandlers.
Rather, try to find logging handlers that send the output directly to a remote address.
E.g. CMRESHandler which logs directly to ElasticSearch but needs some extra fields in the log calls.
Alternatively, write your own handler class and let it inherit from the Python standard library's HTTPHandler.
A final suggestion would be to combine both the TimedRotatingFileHandler and setup ElasticSearch together with FileBeat, so you would be able to store your logs inside ElasticSearch (i.e. remote), but you wouldn't store a huge amount of logs on your Airflow disk since they will be removed by the backupCount retention policy of your TimedRotatingFileHandler.
Usually apache airflow grab the disk space due to 3 reasons
1. airflow scheduler logs files
2. mysql binaly logs [Major]
3. xcom table records.
To make it clean up on regular basis I have set up a dag which run on daily basis and cleans the binary logs and truncate the xcom table to make the disk space free
You also might need to install [pip install mysql-connector-python].
To clean up scheduler log files I do delete them manually two times in a week to avoid the risk of logs deleted which needs to be required for some reasons.
I clean the logs files by [sudo rm -rd airflow/logs/] command.
Below is my python code for reference
'
"""Example DAG demonstrating the usage of the PythonOperator."""
from airflow import DAG
from airflow.operators.python import PythonOperator
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from airflow.utils.dates import days_ago
from airflow.operators.bash import BashOperator
from airflow.providers.postgres.operators.postgres import PostgresOperator
args = {
'owner': 'airflow',
'email_on_failure':True,
'retries': 1,
'email':['Your Email Id'],
'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=5)
}
dag = DAG(
dag_id='airflow_logs_cleanup',
default_args=args,
schedule_interval='#daily',
start_date=days_ago(0),
catchup=False,
max_active_runs=1,
tags=['airflow_maintenance'],
)
def truncate_table():
import mysql.connector
connection = mysql.connector.connect(host='localhost',
database='db_name',
user='username',
password='your password',
auth_plugin='mysql_native_password')
cursor = connection.cursor()
sql_select_query = """TRUNCATE TABLE xcom"""
cursor.execute(sql_select_query)
connection.commit()
connection.close()
print("XCOM Table truncated successfully")
def delete_binary_logs():
import mysql.connector
from datetime import datetime
date = datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
connection = mysql.connector.connect(host='localhost',
database='db_name',
user='username',
password='your_password',
auth_plugin='mysql_native_password')
cursor = connection.cursor()
query = 'PURGE BINARY LOGS BEFORE ' + "'" + str(date) + "'"
sql_select_query = query
cursor.execute(sql_select_query)
connection.commit()
connection.close()
print("Binary logs deleted successfully")
t1 = PythonOperator(
task_id='truncate_table',
python_callable=truncate_table, dag=dag
)
t2 = PythonOperator(
task_id='delete_binary_logs',
python_callable=delete_binary_logs, dag=dag
)
t2 << t1
'
I am surprized but it worked for me. Update your config as below:
base_log_folder=""
It is test in minio and in s3.
Our solution looks a lot like Franzi's:
Running on Airflow 2.0.1 (py3.8)
Override default logging configuration
Since we use a helm chart for airflow deployment it was easiest to push an env there, but it can also be done in the airflow.cfg or using ENV in dockerfile.
# Set custom logging configuration to enable log rotation for task logging
AIRFLOW__LOGGING__LOGGING_CONFIG_CLASS: "airflow_plugins.settings.airflow_local_settings.DEFAULT_LOGGING_CONFIG"
Then we added the logging configuration together with the custom log handler to a python module we build and install in the docker image. As described here: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/modules_management.html
Logging configuration snippet
This is only a copy on the default from the airflow codebase, but then the task logger gets a different handler.
DEFAULT_LOGGING_CONFIG: Dict[str, Any] = {
'version': 1,
'disable_existing_loggers': False,
'formatters': {
'airflow': {'format': LOG_FORMAT},
'airflow_coloured': {
'format': COLORED_LOG_FORMAT if COLORED_LOG else LOG_FORMAT,
'class': COLORED_FORMATTER_CLASS if COLORED_LOG else 'logging.Formatter',
},
},
'handlers': {
'console': {
'class': 'airflow.utils.log.logging_mixin.RedirectStdHandler',
'formatter': 'airflow_coloured',
'stream': 'sys.stdout',
},
'task': {
'class': 'airflow_plugins.log.rotating_file_task_handler.RotatingFileTaskHandler',
'formatter': 'airflow',
'base_log_folder': os.path.expanduser(BASE_LOG_FOLDER),
'filename_template': FILENAME_TEMPLATE,
'maxBytes': 10485760, # 10MB
'backupCount': 6,
},
...
RotatingFileTaskHandler
And finally the custom handler which is just a merge of the logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler and the FileTaskHandler.
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# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
# specific language governing permissions and limitations
# under the License.
"""File logging handler for tasks."""
import logging
import os
from pathlib import Path
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional
import requests
from airflow.configuration import AirflowConfigException, conf
from airflow.utils.helpers import parse_template_string
if TYPE_CHECKING:
from airflow.models import TaskInstance
class RotatingFileTaskHandler(logging.Handler):
"""
FileTaskHandler is a python log handler that handles and reads
task instance logs. It creates and delegates log handling
to `logging.FileHandler` after receiving task instance context.
It reads logs from task instance's host machine.
:param base_log_folder: Base log folder to place logs.
:param filename_template: template filename string
"""
def __init__(self, base_log_folder: str, filename_template: str, maxBytes=0, backupCount=0):
self.max_bytes = maxBytes
self.backup_count = backupCount
super().__init__()
self.handler = None # type: Optional[logging.FileHandler]
self.local_base = base_log_folder
self.filename_template, self.filename_jinja_template = parse_template_string(filename_template)
def set_context(self, ti: "TaskInstance"):
"""
Provide task_instance context to airflow task handler.
:param ti: task instance object
"""
local_loc = self._init_file(ti)
self.handler = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(
filename=local_loc,
mode='a',
maxBytes=self.max_bytes,
backupCount=self.backup_count,
encoding='utf-8',
delay=False,
)
if self.formatter:
self.handler.setFormatter(self.formatter)
self.handler.setLevel(self.level)
def emit(self, record):
if self.handler:
self.handler.emit(record)
def flush(self):
if self.handler:
self.handler.flush()
def close(self):
if self.handler:
self.handler.close()
def _render_filename(self, ti, try_number):
if self.filename_jinja_template:
if hasattr(ti, 'task'):
jinja_context = ti.get_template_context()
jinja_context['try_number'] = try_number
else:
jinja_context = {
'ti': ti,
'ts': ti.execution_date.isoformat(),
'try_number': try_number,
}
return self.filename_jinja_template.render(**jinja_context)
return self.filename_template.format(
dag_id=ti.dag_id,
task_id=ti.task_id,
execution_date=ti.execution_date.isoformat(),
try_number=try_number,
)
def _read_grouped_logs(self):
return False
def _read(self, ti, try_number, metadata=None): # pylint: disable=unused-argument
"""
Template method that contains custom logic of reading
logs given the try_number.
:param ti: task instance record
:param try_number: current try_number to read log from
:param metadata: log metadata,
can be used for steaming log reading and auto-tailing.
:return: log message as a string and metadata.
"""
# Task instance here might be different from task instance when
# initializing the handler. Thus explicitly getting log location
# is needed to get correct log path.
log_relative_path = self._render_filename(ti, try_number)
location = os.path.join(self.local_base, log_relative_path)
log = ""
if os.path.exists(location):
try:
with open(location) as file:
log += f"*** Reading local file: {location}\n"
log += "".join(file.readlines())
except Exception as e: # pylint: disable=broad-except
log = f"*** Failed to load local log file: {location}\n"
log += "*** {}\n".format(str(e))
elif conf.get('core', 'executor') == 'KubernetesExecutor': # pylint: disable=too-many-nested-blocks
try:
from airflow.kubernetes.kube_client import get_kube_client
kube_client = get_kube_client()
if len(ti.hostname) >= 63:
# Kubernetes takes the pod name and truncates it for the hostname. This truncated hostname
# is returned for the fqdn to comply with the 63 character limit imposed by DNS standards
# on any label of a FQDN.
pod_list = kube_client.list_namespaced_pod(conf.get('kubernetes', 'namespace'))
matches = [
pod.metadata.name
for pod in pod_list.items
if pod.metadata.name.startswith(ti.hostname)
]
if len(matches) == 1:
if len(matches[0]) > len(ti.hostname):
ti.hostname = matches[0]
log += '*** Trying to get logs (last 100 lines) from worker pod {} ***\n\n'.format(
ti.hostname
)
res = kube_client.read_namespaced_pod_log(
name=ti.hostname,
namespace=conf.get('kubernetes', 'namespace'),
container='base',
follow=False,
tail_lines=100,
_preload_content=False,
)
for line in res:
log += line.decode()
except Exception as f: # pylint: disable=broad-except
log += '*** Unable to fetch logs from worker pod {} ***\n{}\n\n'.format(ti.hostname, str(f))
else:
url = os.path.join("http://{ti.hostname}:{worker_log_server_port}/log", log_relative_path).format(
ti=ti, worker_log_server_port=conf.get('celery', 'WORKER_LOG_SERVER_PORT')
)
log += f"*** Log file does not exist: {location}\n"
log += f"*** Fetching from: {url}\n"
try:
timeout = None # No timeout
try:
timeout = conf.getint('webserver', 'log_fetch_timeout_sec')
except (AirflowConfigException, ValueError):
pass
response = requests.get(url, timeout=timeout)
response.encoding = "utf-8"
# Check if the resource was properly fetched
response.raise_for_status()
log += '\n' + response.text
except Exception as e: # pylint: disable=broad-except
log += "*** Failed to fetch log file from worker. {}\n".format(str(e))
return log, {'end_of_log': True}
def read(self, task_instance, try_number=None, metadata=None):
"""
Read logs of given task instance from local machine.
:param task_instance: task instance object
:param try_number: task instance try_number to read logs from. If None
it returns all logs separated by try_number
:param metadata: log metadata,
can be used for steaming log reading and auto-tailing.
:return: a list of listed tuples which order log string by host
"""
# Task instance increments its try number when it starts to run.
# So the log for a particular task try will only show up when
# try number gets incremented in DB, i.e logs produced the time
# after cli run and before try_number + 1 in DB will not be displayed.
if try_number is None:
next_try = task_instance.next_try_number
try_numbers = list(range(1, next_try))
elif try_number < 1:
logs = [
[('default_host', f'Error fetching the logs. Try number {try_number} is invalid.')],
]
return logs, [{'end_of_log': True}]
else:
try_numbers = [try_number]
logs = [''] * len(try_numbers)
metadata_array = [{}] * len(try_numbers)
for i, try_number_element in enumerate(try_numbers):
log, metadata = self._read(task_instance, try_number_element, metadata)
# es_task_handler return logs grouped by host. wrap other handler returning log string
# with default/ empty host so that UI can render the response in the same way
logs[i] = log if self._read_grouped_logs() else [(task_instance.hostname, log)]
metadata_array[i] = metadata
return logs, metadata_array
def _init_file(self, ti):
"""
Create log directory and give it correct permissions.
:param ti: task instance object
:return: relative log path of the given task instance
"""
# To handle log writing when tasks are impersonated, the log files need to
# be writable by the user that runs the Airflow command and the user
# that is impersonated. This is mainly to handle corner cases with the
# SubDagOperator. When the SubDagOperator is run, all of the operators
# run under the impersonated user and create appropriate log files
# as the impersonated user. However, if the user manually runs tasks
# of the SubDagOperator through the UI, then the log files are created
# by the user that runs the Airflow command. For example, the Airflow
# run command may be run by the `airflow_sudoable` user, but the Airflow
# tasks may be run by the `airflow` user. If the log files are not
# writable by both users, then it's possible that re-running a task
# via the UI (or vice versa) results in a permission error as the task
# tries to write to a log file created by the other user.
relative_path = self._render_filename(ti, ti.try_number)
full_path = os.path.join(self.local_base, relative_path)
directory = os.path.dirname(full_path)
# Create the log file and give it group writable permissions
# TODO(aoen): Make log dirs and logs globally readable for now since the SubDag
# operator is not compatible with impersonation (e.g. if a Celery executor is used
# for a SubDag operator and the SubDag operator has a different owner than the
# parent DAG)
Path(directory).mkdir(mode=0o777, parents=True, exist_ok=True)
if not os.path.exists(full_path):
open(full_path, "a").close()
# TODO: Investigate using 444 instead of 666.
os.chmod(full_path, 0o666)
return full_path
Maybe a final note; the links in the airflow UI to the logging will now only open the latest logfile, not the older rotated files which are only accessible by means of SSH or any other interface to access the airflow logging path.
I don't think that there is a rotation mechanism but you can store them in S3 or google cloud storage as describe here : https://airflow.incubator.apache.org/configuration.html#logs
In order to customize my grunt tasks, I need access to the grunt task name given on the command line when starting grunt.
The options is no problem, since its well documented (grunt.options).
It's also well documented how to find out the task name, when running a grunt task.
But I need access to the task name before.
Eg, the user writes
grunt build --target=client
When configuring the grunt job in my Gruntfile.js, I can use
grunt.option('target') to get 'client'.
But how do I get hold of parameter build before the task build starts?
Any guidance is much appreciated!
Your grunt file is basically just a function. Try adding this line to the top:
module.exports = function( grunt ) {
/*==> */ console.log(grunt.option('target'));
/*==> */ console.log(grunt.cli.tasks);
// Add your pre task code here...
Running with grunt build --target=client should give you the output:
client
[ 'build' ]
At that point, you can run any code you need to before your task is run including setting values with new dependencies.
A better way is to use grunt.task.current which has information about the currently running task, including a name property. Within a task, the context (i.e. this) is the same object. So . . .
grunt.registerTask('foo', 'Foobar all the things', function() {
console.log(grunt.task.current.name); // foo
console.log(this.name); // foo
console.log(this === grunt.task.current); // true
});
If build is an alias to other tasks and you just want to know what command was typed that led to the current task execution, I typically use process.argv[2]. If you examine process.argv, you'll see that argv[0] is node (because grunt is a node process), argv[1] is grunt, and argv[2] is the actual grunt task (followed by any params in the remainder of argv).
EDIT:
Example output from console.log(grunt.task.current) on grunt#0.4.5 from within a task (can't have a current task from not a current task).
{
nameArgs: 'server:dev',
name: 'server',
args: [],
flags: {},
async: [Function],
errorCount: [Getter],
requires: [Function],
requiresConfig: [Function],
options: [Function],
target: 'dev',
data: { options: { debugPort: 5858, cwd: 'server' } },
files: [],
filesSrc: [Getter]
}
You can use grunt.util.hooker.hook for this.
Example (part of Gruntfile.coffee):
grunt.util.hooker.hook grunt.task, (opt) ->
if grunt.task.current and grunt.task.current.nameArgs
console.log "Task to run: " + grunt.task.current.nameArgs
CMD:
C:\some_dir>grunt concat --cmp my_cmp
Task to run: concat
Running "concat:coffee" (concat) task
Task to run: concat:coffee
File "core.coffee" created.
Done, without errors.
There is also a hack that I've used to prevent certain task execution:
grunt.util.hooker.hook grunt.task, (opt) ->
if grunt.task.current and grunt.task.current.nameArgs
console.log "Task to run: " + grunt.task.current.nameArgs
if grunt.task.current.nameArgs is "<some task you don't want user to run>"
console.log "Ooooh, not <doing smth> today :("
exit() # Not valid. Don't know how to exit :), but will stop grunt anyway
CMD, when allowed:
C:\some_dir>grunt concat:coffee --cmp my_cmp
Running "concat:coffee" (concat) task
Task to run: concat:coffee
File "core.coffee" created.
Done, without errors.
CMD, when prevented:
C:\some_dir>grunt concat:coffee --cmp my_cmp
Running "concat:coffee" (concat) task
Task to run: concat:coffee
Ooooh, not concating today :(
Warning: exit is not defined Use --force to continue.
Aborted due to warnings.