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Charles YaoandClaude Opus 5 e9599355a2 feat(dify-builder): stream the test run instead of replaying it
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>
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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 AGENTS.md

    Continue in the api directory 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