the invited_user objects can be arbitrarily large, and when we put them in the session we risk going over the session cookie's 4kb size limit. since https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/3827 was merged, we store the user id in the session. Now that's been live for a day or two we can safely stop putting the rich object in the session. Needed to change a bunch of tests for this to make sure appropriate mocks were set. Also some tests were accidentally re-using fake_uuid. Still pop the object when cleaning up sessions. We'll need to remove that in a future PR.
notifications-admin
GOV.UK Notify admin application - https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/
- Register and manage users
- Create and manage services
- Send batch emails and SMS by uploading a CSV
- Show history of notifications
Setting up
Python version
At the moment we run Python 3.6 in production.
NPM packages
brew install node
NPM is Node's package management tool. n is a tool for managing different versions of Node. The following installs n and uses the long term support (LTS) version of Node.
npm install -g n
n lts
environment.sh
In the root directory of the application, run:
echo "
export NOTIFY_ENVIRONMENT='development'
export FLASK_APP=application.py
export FLASK_ENV=development
export WERKZEUG_DEBUG_PIN=off
"> environment.sh
AWS credentials
To run parts of the app, such as uploading letters, you will need appropriate AWS credentials. See the Wiki for more details.
To run the application
# install dependencies, etc.
make bootstrap
# run the web app
make run-flask
Then visit localhost:6012.
To test the application
# install dependencies, etc.
make bootstrap
make test
Common tasks
Updating application dependencies
requirements.txt is generated from the requirements.in in order to pin versions of all nested dependencies. If requirements.in has been changed, run make freeze-requirements to regenerate it.
Automatically rebuild the frontend assets
If you want the front end assets to re-compile on changes, leave this running in a separate terminal from the app
npm run watch