**Description**

I have noticed that the stable REST API doesn't have the ability to run a task (which is possible from the airflow web interface.
I think it would be nice to have either:
- Run task 
- Run all failing tasks (rerun from point of failure)
this ability for integrations.

**Use case / motivation**

I would like the ability to identify the failing tasks on a specific DAG Run and rerun only them.
I would like to do it remotely (non-interactive) using the REST API.
I could write a script that run only the failing tasks, but I couldn't find a way to "Run" a task, when I have the task instance ID.

**Are you willing to submit a PR?**

Not at this stage

**Related Issues**



airflow/models/dag.py
"""Build a Jinja2 environment."""
        
        searchpath = [self.folder]
        if self.template_searchpath:
            searchpath += self.template_searchpath
        
        jinja_env_options = {
            'loader': jinja2.FileSystemLoader(searchpath),
            'undefined': self.template_undefined,
            'extensions': ["jinja2.ext.do"],
            'cache_size': 0,
        }
        if self.jinja_environment_kwargs:
            jinja_env_options.update(self.jinja_environment_kwargs)
        env = jinja2.Environment(**jinja_env_options)  
        
        
        if self.user_defined_macros:
            env.globals.update(self.user_defined_macros)
        if self.user_defined_filters:
            env.filters.update(self.user_defined_filters)
        return env
    def set_dependency(self, upstream_task_id, downstream_task_id):
        """
        Simple utility method to set dependency between two tasks that
        already have been added to the DAG using add_task()
        """
        self.get_task(upstream_task_id).set_downstream(self.get_task(downstream_task_id))
    @provide_session
    def get_task_instances(self, start_date=None, end_date=None, state=None, session=None):