Optional parameter #2295
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This allows a parameter to be a string or None. None is serialized as an empty string, and empty strings parse as None. This is useful for luigi.Config classes where we want a None value for some parameters and don't want warnings about the type being wrong.
This will reduce warnings in the scheduler. It should be safe unless there are cases where the empty string needs to be distinguished from None. That doesn't seem to be the case anywhere here.
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Forgot to update this, but I've been using this in production about 2 weeks now and it works fine. |
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Description
Create an OptionalParameter class that serializes None as the empty string and use this class whenever we have a parameter with default None. Empty string gets parsed to None.
Motivation and Context
I get a long series of type warnings from default None values in the Luigi codebase whenever I run my pipeline. This gets rid of those, and should be safe as long as no one needs to differentiate between the empty string and None.
Have you tested this? If so, how?
I added some unit tests for the OptionalParameter class. I haven't tried running a pipeline with it yet, but I will soon.