Our code was assuming that any notifications with `international` set to
`True` were text messages. It was then trying to look up delivery
information for a notification which wasn’t sent to a phone number,
causing an exception.
This done so that we do not use statsd on our http endpoint.
We decided we do not need metrics that this gave us. If we
change our minds, we will add Prometheus-friendly decorators
instead in the future.
Years ago we started to implement a way to schedule a notification. We hit a problem but we never came up with a good solution and the feature never made it back to the top of the priority list.
This PR removes the code for scheduled_for. There will be another PR to drop the scheduled_notifications table and remove the schedule_notifications service permission
Unfortunately, I don't think we can remove the `scheduled_for` attribute from the notification.serialized method because out clients might fail if something is missing. For now I have left it in but defaulted the value to None.
The standard way that we indicate that there are more results than can
be returned is by paginating. So even though we don’t intend to paginate
the search results in the admin app, it can still use the presence or
absence of a ‘next’ link to determine whether or not to show a message
about only showing the first 50 results.
We were doing this temporarily while the `normalised_to` field was not
populated for letters. Once we have a week of data in the
`normalised_to` field we can stop looking in the `to` field. This should
improve performance because:
- it’s one `WHERE` clause not two
- we had to do `ilike` on the `to` field, because we don’t lowercase its
contents – even if the two where clauses are somehow paralleized it’s
is slower than a `like` comparison, which is case-sensitive
Depends on:
- [ ] Tuesday 5 May (7 full days after deploying https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api/pull/2814)
Like we have search by email address or phone number, finding an
individual letter is a common task. At the moment users are having to
click through pages and pages of letters to find the one they’re looking
for.
We have to search in the `to` and `normalised_to` fields for now because
we’re not populating the `normalised_to` column for letters at the
moment.
It is possible a service has data rention that is smaller than the time it takes to get a delivery receipt.
This PR refactors process_ses_receipt to update NotificationHistory if the Notifcation has already been purged.
Before the search term was either:
- an email address (or partial email address)
- a phone number (or partial phone number)
Now it can also be:
- a reference (or partial reference)
We can take a pretty good guess, by looking at the search term, whether
the thing the user is searching by email address or phone number. This
helps us:
- only show relevant notifications
- normalise the search term to give the best chance of matching what we
store in the `normalised_to` field
However we can’t look at a search term and guess whether it’s a
reference, because a reference could take any format. Therefore if the
user hasn’t told us what kind of thing their search term is, we should
stop trying to guess.
We have a team who want to find emails that might have been sent to an
incorrect address. Therefore they can’t search by the correct address,
because it won’t match.
What they do have is the reference number of the user’s application,
which is also stored in the `client_reference` field on the
notification.
So when a user is searching we should also look at the client reference,
as well as the recipient, allowing the user to enter either in the
search box.
All our endpoint should perform a check that the params are valid - this is an easy whay to check that and is standard for our endpoints.
I reverted the query to just filter by job id.
When we cancel a job, we need to check if all notifications are
already in the database. So far, we were querying for all
notification objects in the database and counting them in
admin app, which runs into pagination problems for large jobs,
and could time out for very large jobs.
Currently we switch if:
* status = delivered and updated_at - sent_at > threshold
* status = sending and now - sent_at > threshold
firetext can leave notifications in the pending state, which is
equivalent to sending in terms of how we should handle it, so this
commit changes the second case to allow pending as well as sending.
Flask-SQLAlchemy paginate function issues a separate query to get
the total count of rows for a given filter. This query (with
filters used by the API integration Message log page) is slow for
services with large number of notifications.
Since Message log page doesn't actually allow users to paginate
through the response (it only shows the last 50 messages) we can
use limit instead of paginate, which requires passing in another
flag from admin to the dao method.
`count` flag has been added to `paginate` in March 2018, however
there was no release of flask-sqlalchemy since then, so we need
to pull the dev version of the package from Github.
The delivery for provider is slow if more than threshold (currently
we pass in threshold 10%) either took x (for now 4) minutes to deliver,
or are still sending after that time. We look at all notifications
for current provider which are delivered or sending, and are not under
test key, for the last 10 minutes.
We are using created_at to establish if notifications are from last
10 minutes because we have an index on it, so the query is faster.
Also write tests for new is_delivery_slow_for_provider query
It can be useful to get a notification by id while checking that the
notification belongs to a given service. This changes the
get_notification_by_id DAO function to optionally also filter by
service_id so that we can check this.
- Updated notifications_dao.update_notification_status_by_id with an optional parameter to set the sent_by, this will eliminate a separate update to notifcaitons.
- Added the callback url to the log message, that way we can see if it's the same url failing.
- Stop sending the status callbacks for PENDING status.
There was a datetime bug in the query which resulted in files not being sent to the postal provider.
The trigger-letter-pdfs-for-day task is no longer needed, so rather than fix the query just call collate_letter_pdfs_for_day directly.
Less code is always better.
Deployment considerations: I realized this is strictly not backwards compatible if the scheduled job is in progress and a task is on the queue that no longer exists. This is ok since we will deploy this well before 17:50.
For returned letter updates most notifications won't exist in the
notifications table, so in order to find out whether the reference
matches any known letters we need to check the count of updated
history records.
We need to update letter notifications with a new status when DVLA
gives us a list of references for returned letters.
This adds the new status to the models and the DB.
DVLA call this 'returned mail', so I'm using it as the status name
since it seems less ambiguous than 'returned'.
Added the option to filter by one_off messages to the DAO function
`get_notifications_for_service`. Previously, one-off notifications
were not returned - this has changed so that the default is for
one-off notifications to be returned. Also simplified the `include_jobs`
filter for this function.
The DAO function gets used in 3 places - for the V1 and V2 API endpoints,
which will now start to return one-off messages. It also gets used by
the admin app which needs to pass in `include_one_off=False` to the
`get_all_notifications_for_service` where we don't want one-off
notifications to show, such as the API message log page.
Test notifications are only stored in the notification table, not the
notification_history table. We were deciding which table to query for
the platform admin stats based on the start date passed to the DAO
function. This means that if the start date given was more than 7 days
ago and the end date was within the last 7 days, test notifications were
not being returned. We now use the end date to choose which table to
query which means that test notifications always get returned when they
should.
Created a platform-stats blueprint and moved the new platform stats
endpoint to the new blueprint (it was previously in the service
blueprint). Since the original platform stats route and the new platform
stats route are now in different blueprints, their view functions can
have the same name without any issues.
Moved the `fetch_new_aggregate_stats_by_date_range_for_all_services`
DAO function from the services DAO to the Notifications DAO since this
function queries the `notification` and `notification_history` tables.
Also added a test to check that the data returned from the function
takes BST into account.
The caseworking view is going to have a page which displays emails and
text messages combined together.
In order for the search to work on this page the user needs to be able
to search for an email or a text message. This commit makes it guess
what to search for when the `notification_type` isn’t known (basically
by saying ‘if the search term is only digits they’re probably looking
searching by phone number’).
