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and/or implementation.</li>
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result backend.</li>
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broker and/or result backend.</li>
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and/or upgrading Celery and its dependencies.</li>
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<h2 dir="auto">Related Issues and Possible Duplicates</h2>

<h4 dir="auto">Related Issues</h4>
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<li><a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="395146552" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/5265" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/celery/celery/issues/5265/hovercard" href="https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/5265">#5265</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 dir="auto">Possible Duplicates</h4>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>None</li>
</ul>
<h2 dir="auto">Environment &amp; Settings</h2>

<p dir="auto"><strong>Celery version</strong>: 4.3.0</p>
<details>
<summary><b><code class="notranslate">celery report</code> Output:</b></summary>
<p dir="auto">
</p>
</details>
<h1 dir="auto">Steps to Reproduce</h1>
<h2 dir="auto">Required Dependencies</h2>

<ul dir="auto">
<li><strong>Minimal Python Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Celery Version</strong>: 4.3.0</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Kombu Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Broker Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Result Backend Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal OS and/or Kernel Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Broker Client Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Result Backend Client Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
</ul>
<h3 dir="auto">Python Packages</h3>

<details>
<summary><b><code class="notranslate">pip freeze</code> Output:</b></summary>
<p dir="auto">
</p>
</details>
<h3 dir="auto">Other Dependencies</h3>

<details>
<p dir="auto">
N/A
</p>
</details>
<h2 dir="auto">Minimally Reproducible Test Case</h2>

<details>
<p dir="auto">
</p><div class="highlight highlight-source-python notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" dir="auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content=""><pre class="notranslate"></pre></div>
<p dir="auto"></p>
</details>
<h1 dir="auto">Expected Behavior</h1>

<p dir="auto">The signature.link method could raise AttributeError if signature is built with from_dict class method. It should call the from_dict class method if this happens to transform the dict into a Signature instance. The call should be recursive to rebuild all sub-signatures if they are dict instances instead of Signature.</p>
<h1 dir="auto">Actual Behavior</h1>

<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="[2019-10-31 15:35:07,882: ERROR/ForkPoolWorker-8] Task cancel[5eaedd7c-9d11-42e6-88fd-952b2526ab2a] raised unexpected: AttributeError(&quot;'dict' object has no attribute 'link'&quot;)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File &quot;/home/[...]/python3.7/site-packages/celery/app/trace.py&quot;, line 385, in trace_task
    R = retval = fun(*args, **kwargs)
  File &quot;/home/[...]/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/app/trace.py&quot;, line 650, in __protected_call__
    return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
[...]
  File &quot;/home/[...]/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/canvas.py&quot;, line 1351, in link
    self.body.link(callback)
  File &quot;/home/[...]/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/canvas.py&quot;, line 1041, in link
    return self.tasks[0].link(sig)
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'link'"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">[2019-10-31 15:35:07,882: ERROR/ForkPoolWorker-8] Task cancel[5eaedd7c-9d11-42e6-88fd-952b2526ab2a] raised unexpected: AttributeError("'dict' object has no attribute 'link'")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/[...]/python3.7/site-packages/celery/app/trace.py", line 385, in trace_task
    R = retval = fun(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/[...]/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/app/trace.py", line 650, in __protected_call__
    return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
[...]
  File "/home/[...]/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/canvas.py", line 1351, in link
    self.body.link(callback)
  File "/home/[...]/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/canvas.py", line 1041, in link
    return self.tasks[0].link(sig)
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'link'
</code></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">I'm not an expert in Celery code byt maybe it should be possible to replace:</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="def link(self, sig):
        # Simply link to first task
        sig = sig.clone().set(immutable=True)
        return self.tasks[0].link(sig)"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">def link(self, sig):
        # Simply link to first task
        sig = sig.clone().set(immutable=True)
        return self.tasks[0].link(sig)
</code></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">by:</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="def link(self, sig):
        # Simply link to first task
        sig = sig.clone().set(immutable=True)
        try:
            return self.tasks[0].link(sig)
        except AttributeError:
             return Signature.from_dict(self.tasks[0]).link(sig)"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">def link(self, sig):
        # Simply link to first task
        sig = sig.clone().set(immutable=True)
        try:
            return self.tasks[0].link(sig)
        except AttributeError:
             return Signature.from_dict(self.tasks[0]).link(sig)
</code></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">The same applies to link_error.</p>
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<h2 dir="auto">Optional Debugging Information</h2>

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and/or implementation.</li>
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result backend.</li>
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broker and/or result backend.</li>
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<li class="task-list-item"><input type="checkbox" id="" disabled="" class="task-list-item-checkbox"> I have tried reproducing the issue on more than one workers pool.</li>
<li class="task-list-item"><input type="checkbox" id="" disabled="" class="task-list-item-checkbox"> I have tried reproducing the issue with autoscaling, retries,<br>
ETA/Countdown &amp; rate limits disabled.</li>
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and/or upgrading Celery and its dependencies.</li>
</ul>
<h2 dir="auto">Related Issues and Possible Duplicates</h2>

<h4 dir="auto">Related Issues</h4>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>None</li>
</ul>
<h4 dir="auto">Possible Duplicates</h4>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>None</li>
</ul>
<h2 dir="auto">Environment &amp; Settings</h2>

<p dir="auto"><strong>Celery version</strong>:</p>

<details>
<summary><b><code class="notranslate">celery report</code> Output:</b></summary>
<p dir="auto">
</p><div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content=""><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate"></code></pre></div>
<p dir="auto"></p>
</details>
<h1 dir="auto">Steps to Reproduce</h1>
<h2 dir="auto">Required Dependencies</h2>

<ul dir="auto">
<li><strong>Minimal Python Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Celery Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Kombu Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Broker Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Result Backend Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal OS and/or Kernel Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Broker Client Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
<li><strong>Minimal Result Backend Client Version</strong>: N/A or Unknown</li>
</ul>
<h3 dir="auto">Python Packages</h3>

<details>
<summary><b><code class="notranslate">pip freeze</code> Output:</b></summary>
<p dir="auto">
</p><div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content=""><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate"></code></pre></div>
<p dir="auto"></p>
</details>
<h3 dir="auto">Other Dependencies</h3>

<details>
<p dir="auto">
N/A
</p>
</details>
<h2 dir="auto">Minimally Reproducible Test Case</h2>

<details>
<p dir="auto">
</p><div class="highlight highlight-source-python notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" dir="auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content=""><pre class="notranslate"></pre></div>
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</details>
<h1 dir="auto">Expected Behavior</h1>

<h1 dir="auto">Actual Behavior</h1>