Conditional severity test severity: error is not working

[antongoncharuk]

Hey team, I’m trying to set a conditional severity test using the following guidance, to throw an error if there are more than 3 fails, to warn if there are more than 0 and pass otherwise. But it is not working, I’m still getting the following error - Got 3 results, configured to fail if != 0. Please see the screenshot attached. Running with dbt=0.21.0.

  - name: organization_id
    description: 
    tests:
      - not_null
      - unique:
          config:
            severity: error
            error_if: "> 3"
            warn_if: "> 0"

Note: works when severity: warn

[jtcohen6]

@antongoncharuk Thanks for the report!

I believe this is the result of a typo, included in v0.21.0:

dbt-core/core/dbt/parser/generic_test_builders.py

Lines 360 to 361 in 79aa136

	if self.error_if is not None:
	config['error_id'] = self.error_if

This bug was previously reported (#4051), and fixed (#4070) for a v0.21.1 patch release, which is currently available as a release candidate. Could you try installing that, and confirm that it fixes the issue?

pip install dbt==0.21.1rc1

We're hoping to have a final v0.21.1 release next week. In the meantime, I'm going to close this as a duplicate.