old_contents: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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  # 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.
  
  import pendulum
  
  from airflow.models import BaseOperator, SkipMixin
  
  
  class LatestOnlyOperator(BaseOperator, SkipMixin):
      """
      Allows a workflow to skip tasks that are not running during the most
      recent schedule interval.
  
      If the task is run outside of the latest schedule interval, all
      directly downstream tasks will be skipped.
      """
  
      ui_color = '#e9ffdb'  # nyanza
  
      def execute(self, context):
          # If the DAG Run is externally triggered, then return without
          # skipping downstream tasks
          if context['dag_run'] and context['dag_run'].external_trigger:
              self.log.info("Externally triggered DAG_Run: allowing execution to proceed.")
              return
  
          now = pendulum.utcnow()
          left_window = context['dag'].following_schedule(
              context['execution_date'])
          right_window = context['dag'].following_schedule(left_window)
          self.log.info(
              'Checking latest only with left_window: %s right_window: %s now: %s',
              left_window, right_window, now
          )
  
          if not left_window < now <= right_window:
              self.log.info('Not latest execution, skipping downstream.')
  
              downstream_tasks = context['task'].get_flat_relatives(upstream=False)
              self.log.debug("Downstream task_ids %s", downstream_tasks)
  
              if downstream_tasks:
                  self.skip(context['dag_run'],
                            context['ti'].execution_date,
                            downstream_tasks)
  
              self.log.info('Done.')
          else:
              self.log.info('Latest, allowing execution to proceed.')
  
new_contents: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  #
  # 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.
  
  import pendulum
  
  from airflow.models import BaseOperator, SkipMixin
  
  
  class LatestOnlyOperator(BaseOperator, SkipMixin):
      """
      Allows a workflow to skip tasks that are not running during the most
      recent schedule interval.
  
      If the task is run outside of the latest schedule interval, all
      directly downstream tasks will be skipped.
  
      Note that downstream tasks are never skipped if the given DAG_Run is
      marked as externally triggered.
      """
  
      ui_color = '#e9ffdb'  # nyanza
  
      def execute(self, context):
          # If the DAG Run is externally triggered, then return without
          # skipping downstream tasks
          if context['dag_run'] and context['dag_run'].external_trigger:
              self.log.info("Externally triggered DAG_Run: allowing execution to proceed.")
              return
  
          now = pendulum.utcnow()
          left_window = context['dag'].following_schedule(
              context['execution_date'])
          right_window = context['dag'].following_schedule(left_window)
          self.log.info(
              'Checking latest only with left_window: %s right_window: %s now: %s',
              left_window, right_window, now
          )
  
          if not left_window < now <= right_window:
              self.log.info('Not latest execution, skipping downstream.')
  
              downstream_tasks = context['task'].get_flat_relatives(upstream=False)
              self.log.debug("Downstream task_ids %s", downstream_tasks)
  
              if downstream_tasks:
                  self.skip(context['dag_run'],
                            context['ti'].execution_date,
                            downstream_tasks)
  
              self.log.info('Done.')
          else:
              self.log.info('Latest, allowing execution to proceed.')
  
subject: Document LatestOnly behavior for external trigger (#5214)