When we first built the contact list feature this endpoint didn’t exist.
Now it does we can remove the slightly cludgy looping-through-all-the-lists
code.
We increasingly have teams wanting to do business-continuity type
messaging. They might be without access to their normal systems, which
is where they would otherwise go to get the list of email addresses or
phone numbers.
So we want to give them a place in Notify where they can store their
spreadsheets and use them at a later date.
For the initial pass we’re going to scope this to only allowing
spreadsheets with one column, ie just phone numbers/email addresses.
This is because:
- it minimises the amount of personal info we’re storing
- it reduces the chance of getting a placeholder error when you go to
send the message, which is probably a high-stress situation where you
might not be able to re-generate the file
The code for this is mostly copied from the existing upload CSV journey.
It’s quite duplicative, but that’s what I needed to do to get this out
quickly. There are opportunities for refactoring later.
Similarly, I would have liked to split this up into better commit
messages, but it really was a case of just bashing code out until it
worked 😳
This commit does not:
- implement the ‘view a contact list page’ (it just has a placeholder
because the API isn’t ready at the moment)
- link to this page (because it’s not ready to use yet)
