Popup is getting automatically closed when there is a DAG running

[0lai0]

Popup is getting automatically closed when there is a DAG running.
Adding dialog detection to prevent auto-refresh from closing open modal/dialog components during data updates
Closes: #57341

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[bbovenzi]

I don't think this is the approach we should take. Instead we should make sure auto refresh doesn't affect modals. Maybe our mounting/unmounting approach needs to be reconsidered

[0lai0]

@bbovenzi Thank you for your suggestion. If I lift the state of the dialog box up to the page level, and the button only triggers it to open, with the page level rendering the dialog box uniformly, would this be a better approach?

[matthieuauger]

I don't know the technical details but I agree that the best behaviour would be that popup doesn't get closed but auto-refresh still continues on background. Even with the modal is opened, if a DAG finishes, we should see it state change in the background

[0lai0]

@matthieuauger Thank you for your feedback.I elevated the state to the page level and render the dialog box there as well. The button utilizes the onOpen event to trigger a state update on the page. This setup guarantees that refreshing the data only updates the table rows and leaves the dialog boxes unaffected.

[pierrejeambrun]

I think the problem is also encountered for other modals on the page. (mark task as failed, mark task as success).

And the problem is similar for the DagRuns table too.

[pierrejeambrun]

Also this is probably not a scalable approach. The problem comes from the fact that the components are created on each render. And therefore the modal from one render is different from the other model of the other render.

Basically useMemo the columns, instead of calling runColumns() and taskInstanceColumns() should fix the issue.

[matthieuauger]

Yes, I added this on the initial GitHub issue, the problem is wider and can be seen with other actions as well as you mentioned (mark task as)

[0lai0]

Thanks @pierrejeambrun and @matthieuauger for the detailed analysis. I was focused on the symptom and missed the underlying problem of the component identity being lost on each render.

Using useMemo to stabilize the column definitions is a much cleaner and more scalable approach.
I'll get working on that implementation right away. Thank you.