Add update XCom endpoint in RestAPI #46457
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related: #45966
Debugging Airflow workflows often involves dealing with incorrect or missing XCom values, which can cause tasks to fail or behave unexpectedly.
Traditionally, fixing such issues requires rerunning tasks, modifying Dag logic, or even manually editing the Airflow metadata database—none of which are ideal in a production setting. With API-based XCom updates, users can quickly correct erroneous values without restarting entire workflows.
This is especially useful in long-running jobs, where reprocessing can be costly, or in dependency-heavy pipelines, where a single incorrect value can block multiple downstream tasks. By allowing targeted updates, this feature speeds up debugging, reduces downtime, and ensures smoother workflow execution.
Steps to play around the feature.
Add the following Dag.
As soon as push_task has pushed to xcom, just update the value via API.
http://localhost:29091/docs#/XCom/update_xcom_entry
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