It looks like, by default, Flask no longer makes full URLs, for example
`https://example.com/path`. Instead it does `/path`. This will still
work fine, and if anything is better because it reduces the number of
bytes of HTML we are sending.
It won’t mean that requests go over `http` instead of `https` without
the protocol because we set the appropriate HSTS header here:
0c57da7781/ansible/roles/paas-proxy/templates/admin.conf.j2 (L11)
This commit changes all our tests to reflect that URLs no longer have
the protocol and domain in them. `_external=True` is Flask’s way of
saying whether a URL should be generated with the domain and protocol
(`True`) or without it (`False`).
Again, I can’t find the changelog or diff where this was introuduced,
but if you’d like to go spelunking then here’s a starting point:
50374e3cfe/src/flask/helpers.py (L192)
This is slightly less efficient than getting the folder dicts from
"get_user_template_folders" directly, since:
- TemplateList returns both templates and folders.
- TemplateList encapsulates the dicts in model classes.
We'll compensate for this later on:
- We'll introduce a new caching approach to make the call fast.
- We'll expose a property to avoid the "if" in the comprehension.
Part of moving "get_template_folders" et al. into TemplateList so we
can cache it more effectively. This is slightly less efficient as
iterating a TemplateList will instantiate an object for each item
in the folder; but the difference is minimal.
Note that:
- The default template_type for TemplateList is "all".
- We need to pass realistic template "JSON" in the test now.
The only impactful change is the major version itself, where I've
fixed the breaking changes due to the upgrade of PyPDF2 [^1] and
checked there are no deprecation warnings when I run the tests.
[^1]: https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-utils/pull/973
Similar to the bug shown here
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/181513431, but to fix the case
when previewing a letter send using a CSV upload it wasn't using
template values to calculate the page length.
