run_draft blocked on AppGenerateService.generate(streaming=False) and then
replayed every finished node-execution row through on_event, so the user
watched a spinner for the whole run and then saw every node light up at once.
It now consumes the streaming generator and fires on_event per frame.
Two things the plan assumed that turned out not to hold:
- The stream does NOT yield dicts. convert_stream_full_response yields dicts,
but that runs in the Celery worker; on our side
BaseAppGenerator.convert_to_event_stream (not overridden) re-wraps every
event as "data: {json}\n\n" and every keep-alive as "event: ping\n\n". An
isinstance(chunk, dict) guard would have dropped every frame. New
stream_chunk_as_mapping accepts both shapes and rejects keep-alives.
- The streaming workflow_paused frame carries workflow_run_id where the
blocking response carried id, so map_run_result would KeyError on it.
Adapted at the call site via run_result_data_from_terminal_chunk;
map_run_result's contract is unchanged for the fix/edit flows.
Session lifetime: _dispatch_generate is a plain function, so all of its
Session work is eager, and the generator it returns only reads a Redis
subscription while the run executes in a Celery worker with its own session.
The consumption loop therefore sits outside the `with` block rather than
pinning a DB connection for the length of a workflow run; a test pins this.
The node-execution read stays at the end -- map_run_result still needs those
rows for per_node[].outputs. Only the progress streams.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dify Backend API
Setup and Run
Important
In the v1.3.0 release,
poetryhas been replaced withuvas the package manager for Dify API backend service.
uv and pnpm are required to run the setup and development commands below.
Using scripts (recommended)
The scripts resolve paths relative to their location, so you can run them from anywhere.
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Run setup (copies env files and installs dependencies).
./dev/setup -
Review
api/.env,web/.env.local, anddocker/middleware.envvalues (see theSECRET_KEYnote below). -
Start middleware (PostgreSQL/Redis/Weaviate).
./dev/start-docker-compose -
Start backend (runs migrations first).
./dev/start-api -
Start Dify web service.
./dev/start-web./dev/setupand./dev/start-webinstall JavaScript dependencies through the repository root workspace, so you do not need a separatecd web && pnpm installstep. -
Set up your application by visiting
http://localhost:3000. -
Start the worker service (async and scheduler tasks, runs from
api)../dev/start-worker -
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.
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Generate a
SECRET_KEYin the.envfile.bash for Linux
sed -i "/^SECRET_KEY=/c\\SECRET_KEY=$(openssl rand -base64 42)" .envbash for Mac
secret_key=$(openssl rand -base64 42) sed -i '' "/^SECRET_KEY=/c\\ SECRET_KEY=${secret_key}" .env
Testing
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Install dependencies for both the backend and the test environment
cd api uv sync --group dev -
Run the tests locally with mocked system environment variables in
tool.pytest_envsection inpyproject.toml, more can check AGENTS.mdContinue in the
apidirectory from the previous step.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