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dify/api
Charles YaoandClaude Opus 4.8 1eb5bb1dd1 fix(dify_builder): publish adapter unpacked publish_workflow's return as a tuple
WorkflowService.publish_workflow returns a single Workflow (-> Workflow), but
dify_port.publish still unpacked it as (workflow, retirement_candidates) -- a
stale signature. Every other caller was updated when the return type changed
(via the main merge); only the Dify Builder port was missed, so every publish
crashed with "TypeError: cannot unpack non-iterable Workflow object", surfaced
to the user as a generic "step failed" SSE frame.

Assign the single return value (retirement_candidates was unused anyway). The
existing test_dify_port publish test mocked publish_workflow as a 2-tuple, which
masked the bug -- corrected it to the real -> Workflow signature so it now guards
the regression.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 16:11:49 -07:00
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Dify Backend API

Setup and Run

Important

In the v1.3.0 release, poetry has been replaced with uv as the package manager for Dify API backend service.

uv and pnpm are required to run the setup and development commands below.

The scripts resolve paths relative to their location, so you can run them from anywhere.

  1. Run setup (copies env files and installs dependencies).

    ./dev/setup
    
  2. Review api/.env, web/.env.local, and docker/middleware.env values (see the SECRET_KEY note below).

  3. Start middleware (PostgreSQL/Redis/Weaviate).

    ./dev/start-docker-compose
    
  4. Start backend (runs migrations first).

    ./dev/start-api
    
  5. Start Dify web service.

    ./dev/start-web
    

    ./dev/setup and ./dev/start-web install JavaScript dependencies through the repository root workspace, so you do not need a separate cd web && pnpm install step.

  6. Set up your application by visiting http://localhost:3000.

  7. Start the worker service (async and scheduler tasks, runs from api).

    ./dev/start-worker
    
  8. Optional: start Celery Beat (scheduled tasks).

    ./dev/start-beat
    

Environment notes

Important

When the frontend and backend run on different subdomains, set COOKIE_DOMAIN to the site’s top-level domain (e.g., example.com). The frontend and backend must be under the same top-level domain in order to share authentication cookies.

  • Generate a SECRET_KEY in the .env file.

    bash for Linux

    sed -i "/^SECRET_KEY=/c\\SECRET_KEY=$(openssl rand -base64 42)" .env
    

    bash for Mac

    secret_key=$(openssl rand -base64 42)
    sed -i '' "/^SECRET_KEY=/c\\
    SECRET_KEY=${secret_key}" .env
    

Testing

  1. Install dependencies for both the backend and the test environment

    cd api
    uv sync --group dev
    
  2. Run the tests locally with mocked system environment variables in tool.pytest_env section in pyproject.toml, more can check Claude.md

    cd api
    uv run pytest                           # Run all tests
    uv run pytest tests/unit_tests/         # Unit tests only
    uv run pytest tests/integration_tests/  # Integration tests
    
    # Code quality
    ./dev/reformat               # Run all formatters and linters
    uv run ruff check --fix ./   # Fix linting issues
    uv run ruff format ./        # Format code
    uv run pyrefly check         # Type checking
    

Generate TS stub

uv run dev/generate_swagger_specs.py --output-dir openapi

use https://jsontotable.org/openapi-to-typescript to convert to typescript