Making people use a property is a sure way to make sure they’re spelling
the name of the property correctly, and allows us to easily swap out
properties that call through to the underlying JSON, and properties
which are implemented as methods.
This means we can have a method on the service model which hits the API
(or Redis) but can be called multiple times (within the context of a
request) without making multiple network requests.
It does this by storing the results of the method on the object’s
internal `__dict__` the first time the method is called.
We do a lot of logic around choosing which templates to show. This logic
is all inside one view method.
It makes it cleaner to break this logic up into functions. But this
would mean passing around variables from one function to another.
Putting these methods onto a class (the service model) means that
there’s a place to store this data (rather than having to pass it around
a lot).
Making this code more manageable is important so that when we have
templates and folders it’s easy to encapsulate the logic around
combining the two.
`_get_current_service` is a function which gets called every time
`current_service` is referenced in a view method or Jinja template.
Because the service model was getting initialised inside this function
it was being reconstructed many times in one request. On the service
settings page, for example, it was getting initialised 43 times, adding
about 200ms to the response time.
This commit moves its initialisation to the point where we’re getting
the data from the API, which only happens once per request.
We already have tests for the
/services/<service_id>/notifications/<notification_type> page, but these
were not testing the page when there were failed notifications, so this
adds a test for the page in this situation.
Once all our users have upgraded to the latest clients they won’t need
this. The latest clients only use the combined key and service ID.
Discuss: when can we safely remove it?
At the moment we show precompiled letters that have failed the
validation as having been sent. This is confusing.
We should communicate it as having been cancelled (rather than failed),
with the implication being that Notify has come along and cancelled the
letter before printing it. I think this is conceptually what makes the
most sense.
From the user’s point of view any letters that show up as cancelled
probably need to be fixed and resent, so it makes sense to group them
with the same name.
At the moment we are manually cancelling letters for people when they
ask us to. Once’s we’ve done this there is no indication that it’s
happened except for the date going red on the list of letters.
This commit adds some error messaging and styling to show when a letter
is cancelled.
Letting people cancel their own letters will be a future enhancement.
We were passing both dvla_org_id and filename to template-preview
temporarily while we switch to only using filename. Now that
template-preview is set up to use filename, we can stop sending the
dvla_org_id too.
One of the changes this pulls in is encoding of
periods in the token used for new password
requests.
In real-life the resulting URL is build by
concatenating the base url with the token so it
isn't processed further.
The test for new password requests builds the URL
with url_for. This encodes the result returned so
the periods are encoded twice.
We now pass through `filename` to the Template Preview `/preview.<filetype>'
endpoint in addition to the `dvla_org_id`. Template Preview will be
changed to only use `filename`, and once this has been done, we can change
the code to only pass through `dvla_org_id` instead of passing through
both pieces of information.
- add get/post view
- create a pdf upload form
- add a template where user can upload the file
- check boundaries of the letter by calling template-preview
- display banner messages with boundaries validation result
- display pages of the document, with visible boundaries overlay
if the document did not pass validation, and without overlay
if they do pass validation
Updated the 'get_sum_billing_units' function to no longer multiply the
billing units by the rate multiplier. The billing_units that come from
notifications-api already consist of the billable_units * rate_multiplier.
The rate_multiplier is also not returned from the api response anymore.
Also updated the billing mocks since these were not mocking the right fields in
the JSON responses from the API billing endpoints, and added the new
'postage' field which will get returned from the monthly-usage endpoint
in notifications-api.
We’ve had a support ticket saying:
> Hi, where a letter goes over to two sides, is there a way in the
> 'Preview' screen (or anywhere else) that I can see page two? I can
> see page one OK, but can't work out how to see what's generated on the
> second page.
Whether you’re about to send 1000s of letters – or just want to preview
how one will look – it’s probably useful to be able to see more than
just the first page.
Pytest is deprecating the direct calling of fixtures. One fixture that
we call directly quite a lot is `fake_uuid`. Since it just returns the
value of `sample_uuid()` we can either call that instead (where we need
a fixed value) or generate a new UUID each time (where a fixed value is
not needed).
2/3 of our incomplete requests to go live are incomplete because the
Data Sharing and Financial Agreement isn’t signed.
We reckon we can be pushier about this by saying it’s ‘incomplete’ where
we know the agreement is signed.
Where the agreement is signed we should confirm this, rather than make
the line disappear. This is so it makes more sense to someone who sees
it as ‘incomplete’, signs it, then comes back to the page.
If we don’t know whether or not the agreement is signed we should wait
until someone has got in touch with us by requesting to go live to
figure it out. So that’s why we’re not showing that line at all.
This tag was not showing up in the call to the Zendesk API because the
return value of a generator is not included as a member of that
generator (on things `yield`ed from it are).
At the moment we manually tag tickets as they come in so we can analyse
how many of each type we’re getting.
Further, we manually tag all the request to go live tickets once a month
to analyse how many are complete/incomplete.
All this tagging is useful, but quite time consuming. Notify already
knows this information and – using the Zendesk API – we can tag them
automatically.
I’ve checked with Holly and this is the taxonomy we want to use.
We don't show the sender addresses and letter branding on the settings page
if a service doesn't have letters enabled, so we should also hide the
postage for services that can't send letters.
(Postage can only be seen by Platform Admin users at the moment, but this will
change later).
We’ve learned of a change implemented today by the UK mobile
network operators, to stop allowing text message sender names
of 3 or less characters.
Adding this validation will not affect existing senders, only those
users trying to add to or update their senders.
Added a new row to the settings table, 'Post class', which shows the
default letter class of a service and is only visible to Platform Admin.
Also added a new page to enable Platform Admin users to change the
default letter class for a service - this only has two options at the
moment, 1st class only and 2nd class only.
When there is a uniqueness constraint on a DB column you can still have
multiple null values.
You can’t have multiple empty string values.
We are trying to save the domain as empty string when creating or
updating a new branding. This means that it’s currently not possible to
create or update a branding with no domain, because the uniqueness
constraint is violated.
A platform admin form accepts a list of references (one per line)
received from DVLA and sends them to the API to update notification
statuses.
References we get from DVLA start with `NOTIFY00\d`, which isn't
part of the reference we store in the database, so we remove them
before sending the data to the API.
The new `returned-letter` status should be treated as `delivered`
for now until we decide a way to display returned letters to users.
