Hi guys. Why does annotating a function with @job automatically runs the function before the dagster instance runs?

Dagster calls the function decorated by

@job

so it can construct the graph of ops described in the function, so it can display the graph. If you're calling vanilla python functions in the

@job

function as well then those will get executed. You should only be calling

@ops

from within a

@job

definition

i'm not using asset job, i'm using job directly on top of my function

I would isolate your job into a smaller set of code that you try to load into Dagster

it's running

Dagster has to call the function at load time to construct the graph / determine the dependencies between ops (otherwise it wouldn't be able to display what ops are in a job). So if you're trying to execute vanilla python functions in a job definition it'll execute those. So you should only be calling ops in the

@job

definition

ok