- Refactor version 1 of post notificaitons to use the common persist_notificaiton and send_notification_to_queue methods.

- It would be nice to refactor the send_sms and send_email tasks to use these common functions as well, that way I can get rid of the new Notifications.from_v2_api_request method.
- Still not happy with the format of the errors. Would like to find a happy place, where the message is descript enough that we do not need external documentation to explain the error. Perhaps we still only need documentation to explain the trial mode concept.

app/dao/notifications_dao.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import uuid
 import pytz
 from datetime import (
     datetime,
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@ from werkzeug.datastructures import MultiDict
 from sqlalchemy import (desc, func, or_, and_, asc, cast, Text)
 from sqlalchemy.orm import joinedload
 
-from app import db
+from app import db, create_uuid
 from app.dao import days_ago
 from app.models import (
     Service,
@@ -125,7 +124,7 @@ def dao_get_last_template_usage(template_id):
 def dao_create_notification(notification):
     if not notification.id:
         # need to populate defaulted fields before we create the notification history object
-        notification.id = uuid.uuid4()
+        notification.id = create_uuid()
     if not notification.status:
         notification.status = 'created'