Deprecate execution_date in the Airflow REST API

[RNHTTR]

Apache Airflow version

2.5.1

What happened

execution_date is used in place of logical_date in all relevant Airflow REST API calls (e.g. set_task_instance_state) except for trigger dag run.

What you think should happen instead

execution_date should be deprecated throughout Airflow

How to reproduce

Try to use logical_date in an Airflow REST API call

Operating System

n/a

Versions of Apache Airflow Providers

No response

Deployment

Other

Deployment details

No response

Anything else

logical_date should also replace execution_date in the Airflow UI for the "Task Instance Details" view.

Related: #26916

Are you willing to submit PR?

• Yes I am willing to submit a PR!

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[pierrejeambrun]

+1

We might also want to handle other related fields such as:

• execution_date_gte
• execution_date_lte

We can use the deprecated flag of OpenAPI spec to mark query params and schema fields deprecated, such as:

A follow up for this would be to update the front end code to not use these deprecated fields.

[eladkal]

+1 and probably #26916 should follow next

[potiuk]

+1

[dejadunlap]

@hussein-awala are you still working on this pull request? If not, I would love to help out

[hussein-awala]

@dejadunlap I never had the time to finish my PR, I just closed it and assigned you this issue

[pierrejeambrun]

This is not used anymore in the API or UI in AF3. Closing