af CLI: treat empty AIRFLOW_API_URL as explicit no-op#191
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af CLI: treat empty AIRFLOW_API_URL as explicit no-op#191
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Setting AIRFLOW_API_URL="" now exits with a clear error instead of silently falling back to DEFAULT_AIRFLOW_URL (http://localhost:8080). This lets programmatic callers propagate "nothing is configured" without risking queries against whatever happens to be listening on localhost. Generated with [Linear](https://linear.app/astronomer/issue/AI-262/af-cli-provide-a-way-to-disable-the-default-localhost8080-fallback#agent-session-53f3680f) Co-authored-by: linear[bot] <44709815+linear[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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| # (automation, agent frameworks) propagate "nothing is configured" | ||
| # without risking queries against whatever happens to be listening on | ||
| # localhost:8080. | ||
| airflow_url_env = os.environ.get("AIRFLOW_API_URL") |
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AIRFLOW_API_URL=""now exits with a clear error instead of silently falling back tohttp://localhost:8080. This lets programmatic callers (automation, agent frameworks) signal "no Airflow is configured right now" without risking queries against whatever happens to be listening on localhost.Unset
AIRFLOW_API_URLstill falls back to config → default, so existing behavior is preserved. Documented in--helpand the README.Fixes #188