From 92e4406cbe937185bed36a95bfb069075ec819c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Graham Bennett <graham@grahambennett.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:43:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] apache-airflow: add docs for additional manual testing

It seems worth documenting how to do it for others.
---
 .../python-modules/apache-airflow/default.nix        | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/apache-airflow/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/apache-airflow/default.nix
index 438dc46038cb..aa87da653bcf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/apache-airflow/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/apache-airflow/default.nix
@@ -293,6 +293,18 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     ./update-providers.py
   '';
 
+  # Note on testing the web UI:
+  # You can (manually) test the web UI as follows:
+  #
+  #   nix shell .#python3Packages.apache-airflow
+  #   airflow db init
+  #   airflow reset -y # WARNING: this will wipe any existing db state you might have!
+  #   airflow standalone
+  #
+  # Then navigate to the localhost URL using the credentials printed, try
+  # triggering the 'example_bash_operator' and 'example_bash_operator' DAGs and
+  # see if they report success.
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Programmatically author, schedule and monitor data pipelines";
     homepage = "https://airflow.apache.org/";