Calling `.set()` with `True` stores the byte string `'True'` which
cannot subsequently be decoded from JSON (because boolean values in
JSON are lowercase, ie `true`).
At the moment the dashboard does two API calls to find out if a service
has:
1. Scheduled jobs
2. Normal jobs
API calls are slow because they are synchronous, go over the network and
touch the database. We can’t cache these API calls because:
- a scheduled job could become a normal job at any time
- the statistics on a normal job are constantly updating
However there are plenty of services which don’t have any jobs, and
probably never will. And finding out if a service has any jobs is
reliably cacheable (because as soon as a service creates its first job
it has some jobs).
So this commit:
- refactors the way we get scheduled/normal jobs into the job_api_client
to make the view a bit slimmer
- makes an additional, Redis-wrapped call to find out if any jobs exist
before trying to get the jobs
This should result in a speedup on the dashboard, and can be used in the
future if there’s anywhere else we want to show or hide something
depending on whether a service has created any jobs (I have some ideas).
If you schedule a job you might change your mind or circumstances might
change. So you need to be able to cancel it. This commit adds a button
on the job page which hits the `…/cancel` API endpoint for a job.
The create job endpoint returns the data about the job with a `data:`
wrapper. This commit makes sure that, when the client is trying to
process a job which has just been created, it looks inside the `data`
wrapper.
Users need to pick a time in the next 24hrs, or send a file immediately.
Rationale for this is a bit lost in time-before-holiday, but generally:
‘Now’ and ‘later’ as the inital choices makes it really clear what
this feature is about conceptually.
The choice of times is absolute, eg ‘1pm’ not ‘in 3 hours’
It’s useful to know how many notifications we’ve handed off to our
providers. This is a measure of how complete the processing of the job
is.
This is important, because once the job processing is complete then you
can accurately reconcile the report with the CSV file that you’ve
uploaded.
Mutating dictionaries is gross and doesn’t work as you’d expect. Better
to have the function return a new dictionary instead.
Means we can be explicit that `created_by` is one of the allowed params
when updating a service.
