Hi there. I need to schedule a flow to run the fir...
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p
Hi there. I need to schedule a flow to run the first Wednesday of every month. I tried the approach outlined here and then ran into the same issue described in the thread. Is it possible to do this with the existing filters? I don't understand the security implications of allowing arbitrary callbacks for functions but it seems like a good feature to have.
I was trying to use this logic:
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def is_first_wednesday(dt):
    first_wednesday = dt.start_of("month").next(pendulum.WEDNESDAY)

    return dt == first_wednesday

clock = clocks.CronClock("0 0 * * 3")
schedule = Schedule(clocks=[clock], filters=[is_first_wednesday])
but I got
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raise ValidationError("Invalid function reference: {}".format(value))
marshmallow.exceptions.ValidationError: Invalid function reference: <function is_first_wednesday at 0x7fa0e2768ee0>
c
Hi Pedro - all schedules / filters need to be executable in Prefect Cloud, hence the tight restriction that they must come from the pre-defined library. We definitely welcome new filter contributions if they are general / flexible enough!
is_first_weekday_of_month(day_of_week: int)
could be a nice one to PR. In the meantime, because your schedule description only consists of 12 dates that span the year, I recommend using an explicit list + a
DatesClock
as described in this similar issue: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/3501
p
Thanks Chris. I'll give this a try.
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