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map node inspection

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

Start by locating the map implementation and the code that invokes mapped functions. Review how function signatures and incoming nodes are represented, then determine which signatures can be inspected safely. Done means the supported mismatch cases are defined and warnings or errors are covered by tests, while args and kwargs limitations remain explicit.

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Description

It might be nice to have warnings/errors raised when the function signature inside map et.al. does not match the number of incoming nodes. This won't work in all cases, since a function could take in args and kwargs and there is nothing to inspect from that, but it might work in some interesting cases.

The main benefit is that one could know before running any data into the pipeline if it was going to work. Since we know exactly how much data is going to be used in the function call we can know if it matches up and will work.

This might help with one of the main issues with streamz, writing pipelines can be more difficult than writing a naked script/notebook.

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