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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"UI fails to run correctly on project with offline Featureviews","articleBody":"## Expected Behavior \r\nWhen FeatureViews have `online=False`, running `feast ui` should start the UI and load the project.\r\n \r\n## Current Behavior\r\nThe UI fails to load with the following error:\r\n```\r\nError Loading Project Configs\r\nThere was an error loading the Project Configurations. Please check that feature_store.yaml file is available and well-formed.\r\n```\r\n\r\nThis looks like it is caused by the registry dump not containing the `online` key for the feature views.\r\n\r\n## Steps to reproduce\r\n1. Create a default repo using `feast init`\r\n2. In `example.py` change `online=True` to `online=False`.\r\n3. Run `feast ui`\r\n\r\n### Specifications\r\n\r\n- Version: 0.21.2\r\n- Platform: macOS\r\n- Subsystem:\r\n\r\n## Possible Solution\r\nTo fix this, the registry should always contain the `online` key for FeatureViews even if they are set to False.\r\n\r\nPerhaps this is related to this quirk of protobufs: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/1772 which would mean that the `online` key doesn't come through in the call to `to_proto` here:\r\n\r\nhttps://github.com/feast-dev/feast/blob/f4eed30c7a01b8e68cb6b5ed4f8ed70cdef86462/sdk/python/feast/registry.py#L914","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dvanbrug","@type":"Person","name":"dvanbrug"},"datePublished":"2022-05-19T18:11:39.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/2719/feast/issues/2719"}