[ui] Always launch using pure asset backfills except on asset job pages #23439
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Related: https://linear.app/dagster-labs/issue/FE-499/launch-all-non-asset-job-runs-using-pure-asset-backfill-path
Summary & Motivation
We are switching from many hidden asset jobs to just one which does not have a predefined partition set (this has already merged). We are currently launching assets incorrectly because the new singleton-hidden-asset-job does not have a pipeline partition set definition, which prevents the UI from launching single runs of partitioned assets.
This PR explores launching ALL non-asset-job runs for assets as pure-asset backfills endpoint (the launchBackfill mutation with an
assetSelection
.This is much simpler, and it does work (though you always get a backfill currently), BUT:
Curious to get thoughts on this direction @sryza
It seems like we could use the new singleton-hidden-asset-job for unpartitioned assets with config, but I can't think of a way to allow execution of a single partition of a partitioned asset with config.