fix: Issue 13956

UPDATING.md

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ assists people when migrating to a new version.
 ## Next
 - [13772](https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/13772): Row level security (RLS) is now enabled by default. To activate the feature, please run `superset init` to expose the RLS menus to Admin users.
 
+- [13980](https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/13980): Data health checks no longer use the metadata database as an interim cache. Though non-breaking, deployments which implement complex logic should likely memoize the callback function. Refer to documentation in the confg.py file for more detail.
+
 ### Breaking Changes
 ### Potential Downtime
 ### Deprecations

superset/config.py

@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from flask_appbuilder.security.sqla import models  # pylint: disable=unused-import
 
+    from superset.connectors.sqla.models import (  # pylint: disable=unused-import
+        SqlaTable,
+    )
     from superset.models.core import Database  # pylint: disable=unused-import
 
 # Realtime stats logger, a StatsD implementation exists
@@ -1146,9 +1149,36 @@ class CeleryConfig:  # pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
 GLOBAL_ASYNC_QUERIES_POLLING_DELAY = 500
 GLOBAL_ASYNC_QUERIES_WEBSOCKET_URL = "ws://127.0.0.1:8080/"
 
-# It's possible to add a dataset health check logic which is specific to your system.
-# It will get executed each time when user open a chart's explore view.
-DATASET_HEALTH_CHECK = None
+# A SQL dataset health check. Note if enabled it is strongly advised that the callable
+# be memoized to aid with performance, i.e.,
+#
+#    @cache_manager.cache.memoize(timeout=0)
+#    def DATASET_HEALTH_CHECK(datasource: SqlaTable) -> Optional[str]:
+#        if (
+#            datasource.sql and
+#            len(sql_parse.ParsedQuery(datasource.sql, strip_comments=True).tables) == 1
+#        ):
+#            return (
+#                "This virtual dataset queries only one table and therefore could be "
+#                "replaced by querying the table directly."
+#            )
+#
+#        return None
+#
+# Within the FLASK_APP_MUTATOR callable, i.e., once the application and thus cache have
+# been initialized it is also necessary to add the following logic to blow the cache for
+# all datasources if the callback function changed.
+#
+#    def FLASK_APP_MUTATOR(app: Flask) -> None:
+#        name = "DATASET_HEALTH_CHECK"
+#        func = app.config[name]
+#        code = func.uncached.__code__.co_code
+#
+#        if cache_manager.cache.get(name) != code:
+#            cache_manager.cache.delete_memoized(func)
+#            cache_manager.cache.set(name, code, timeout=0)
+#
+DATASET_HEALTH_CHECK: Optional[Callable[["SqlaTable"], str]] = None
 
 # SQLalchemy link doc reference
 SQLALCHEMY_DOCS_URL = "https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/core/engines.html"

superset/connectors/sqla/models.py

@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
 from superset.db_engine_specs.base import TimestampExpression
 from superset.errors import ErrorLevel, SupersetError, SupersetErrorType
 from superset.exceptions import QueryObjectValidationError, SupersetSecurityException
-from superset.extensions import event_logger
 from superset.jinja_context import (
     BaseTemplateProcessor,
     ExtraCache,
@@ -687,9 +686,10 @@ def select_star(self) -> Optional[str]:
             self.table_name, schema=self.schema, show_cols=False, latest_partition=False
         )
 
-    @property
+    @property  # type: ignore
     def health_check_message(self) -> Optional[str]:
-        return self.extra_dict.get("health_check", {}).get("message")
+        check = config["DATASET_HEALTH_CHECK"]
+        return check(self) if check else None
 
     @property
     def data(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
@@ -703,13 +703,7 @@ def data(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
             data_["fetch_values_predicate"] = self.fetch_values_predicate
             data_["template_params"] = self.template_params
             data_["is_sqllab_view"] = self.is_sqllab_view
-            # Don't return previously populated health check message in case
-            # the health check feature is turned off
-            data_["health_check_message"] = (
-                self.health_check_message
-                if config.get("DATASET_HEALTH_CHECK")
-                else None
-            )
+            data_["health_check_message"] = self.health_check_message
             data_["extra"] = self.extra
         return data_
 
@@ -1608,26 +1602,6 @@ class and any keys added via `ExtraCache`.
             extra_cache_keys += sqla_query.extra_cache_keys
         return extra_cache_keys
 
-    def health_check(self, commit: bool = False, force: bool = False) -> None:
-        check = config.get("DATASET_HEALTH_CHECK")
-        if check is None:
-            return
-
-        extra = self.extra_dict
-        # force re-run health check, or health check is updated
-        if force or extra.get("health_check", {}).get("version") != check.version:
-            with event_logger.log_context(action="dataset_health_check"):
-                message = check(self)
-                extra["health_check"] = {
-                    "version": check.version,
-                    "message": message,
-                }
-                self.extra = json.dumps(extra)
-
-                db.session.merge(self)
-                if commit:
-                    db.session.commit()
-
 
 sa.event.listen(SqlaTable, "after_insert", security_manager.set_perm)
 sa.event.listen(SqlaTable, "after_update", security_manager.set_perm)

superset/datasets/dao.py

@@ -169,9 +169,7 @@ def update(  # pylint: disable=W:279
             super().update(model, properties, commit=commit)
             properties["columns"] = original_properties
 
-        updated_model = super().update(model, properties, commit=False)
-        model.health_check(force=True, commit=False)
-        return updated_model
+        return super().update(model, properties, commit=False)
 
     @classmethod
     def update_columns(

superset/migrations/versions/134cea61c5e7_remove_dataset_health_check_message.py

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# 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.
+"""remove dataset health check message
+
+Revision ID: 134cea61c5e7
+Revises: 301362411006
+Create Date: 2021-04-07 07:21:27.324983
+
+"""
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision = "134cea61c5e7"
+down_revision = "301362411006"
+
+import json
+import logging
+
+from alembic import op
+from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, Text
+from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
+
+from superset import db
+
+Base = declarative_base()
+
+
+class SqlaTable(Base):
+    __tablename__ = "tables"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
+    extra = Column(Text)
+
+
+def upgrade():
+    bind = op.get_bind()
+    session = db.Session(bind=bind)
+
+    for datasource in session.query(SqlaTable):
+        if datasource.extra:
+            try:
+                extra = json.loads(datasource.extra)
+
+                if extra and "health_check" in extra:
+                    del extra["health_check"]
+                    datasource.extra = json.dumps(extra) if extra else None
+            except Exception as ex:
+                logging.exception(ex)
+
+    session.commit()
+    session.close()
+
+
+def downgrade():
+    pass

superset/views/core.py

@@ -732,10 +732,6 @@ def explore(  # pylint: disable=too-many-locals,too-many-return-statements,too-m
                     f"datasource_id={datasource_id}&"
                 )
 
-            # if feature enabled, run some health check rules for sqla datasource
-            if hasattr(datasource, "health_check"):
-                datasource.health_check()
-
         viz_type = form_data.get("viz_type")
         if not viz_type and datasource and datasource.default_endpoint:
             return redirect(datasource.default_endpoint)

superset/views/datasource.py

@@ -83,8 +83,6 @@ def save(self) -> FlaskResponse:
                 status=409,
             )
         orm_datasource.update_from_object(datasource_dict)
-        if hasattr(orm_datasource, "health_check"):
-            orm_datasource.health_check(force=True, commit=False)
         data = orm_datasource.data
         db.session.commit()
 

tests/datasource_tests.py

@@ -221,21 +221,11 @@ def my_check(datasource):
             return "Warning message!"
 
         app.config["DATASET_HEALTH_CHECK"] = my_check
-        my_check.version = 0.1
-
         self.login(username="admin")
         tbl = self.get_table_by_name("birth_names")
-        self.datasource = ConnectorRegistry.get_datasource("table", tbl.id, db.session)
-
-        for key in self.datasource.export_fields:
-            self.original_attrs[key] = getattr(self.datasource, key)
-
-        url = f"/datasource/get/{tbl.type}/{tbl.id}/"
-        tbl.health_check(commit=True, force=True)
-        resp = self.get_json_resp(url)
-        self.assertEqual(resp["health_check_message"], "Warning message!")
-
-        del app.config["DATASET_HEALTH_CHECK"]
+        datasource = ConnectorRegistry.get_datasource("table", tbl.id, db.session)
+        assert datasource.health_check_message == "Warning message!"
+        app.config["DATASET_HEALTH_CHECK"] = None
 
     def test_get_datasource_failed(self):
         pytest.raises(