We have hit throttling limits from SES approximately once a week during
a spike of traffic from GOV.UK. The rate limiting usually only lasts a
couple of minutes but generates enough exceptions to cause a p1 but with
no potential action for the responder.
Therefore we downgrade the warning for this case to a warning and assume
traffic will level back out such that the problem resolves itself.
Note, we will still get exceptions if we go over our daily limit, rather
than our per minute sending limit, which does require immediate action
by someone responding.
If we were to continually go over our per second sending rate for a long
continous period of time, then there is a chance we may not be aware but
given the risk of this happening is low I think it's an acceptable risk
for the moment.
The error message for when an invitation to Notify had expired was
displaying in admin with square brackets round it because admin is not
expecting the message to be a list
(a85134ee22/app/models/user.py (L500))
This keeps things consistent with the live environment and also how we
do it for the admin app where it is entirely up to environment variables
whether redis is enabled or not. This changes nothing in terms of
functionality as currently in our environment variables redis is enabled
for the API in staging.
we won't let trial mode services send real broadcasts, and it's helpful
for users to see the flow of messages without having to have a second
person with them
Reflects the new name of the feature.
Note that the name of the underlying table hasn’t changed because it’s
explicitly set to `service_whitelist`. Changing this will be a more
involved process.
It's clear that we need a way to track updates to a broadcast message.
It's also clear that we'll need some kind of audit log that captures
exactly what was sent out in a message.
This commit adds a new database table, `broadcast_event`, which maps 1:1
with CAP XML sent to the CBCs. We'll create one of these just before
sending out.
The main driver for this was that cancel and update messages need to
contain a list of references of all previous messages that they're
amending. This is of format `{sender},{identifier},{sent_timestamp}`,
and the identifier itself needs to be unique for each message.
The task was raising a JobIncompleteError, yet it's not an error the task is performing it's task correctly and calling the appropriate task to restart the job.
Also used apply_sync to create the task instead of send_task.
Since these methods only take `self` as an argument they can be
properties. And this means we don’t need to follow the semi-convention
we have of indicating an attribute is a method by starting its name with
`get_`.
The other advantage of using `@property` to indicate a getter is that it
will raise an exception if someone tries to set the attribute, eg by
doing `contact_list.has_jobs = False`. This is because we (rightly)
haven’t defined a setter.
At the moment we return a count of recent jobs for contact lists, where
recent is defined as being within the service’s data retention period.
This lets us write nice bits of UI copy like ‘used 3 times in the last
7 days’. But it’s hard to write the copy for when the count is 0,
because this could be for one of two reasons:
- the contact list has never been used
- the contact list has been used, but not within the data retention
period for that channel
At the moment we can’t know which of those reasons is the case, so we
can’t write nice clear content like ‘never been used’.
This commit adds a property to contact lists which says whether they’ve
ever been used.
It also renames the existing, as-yet-unused property to make clear that
it’s only counting within the data retention (so can still be 0 even if
`has_jobs` is `True`).
Usage for all services is a platform admin report that groups letters by
postage. We want it to show `europe` and `rest-of-world` letters under a
single category of `international`, so this updates the query to do
that and to order appropriately.
This will help us better understand how far through the task has got if
it gets interrupted halfway (as was the case this morning and we
struggled to understand).
solves `AttributeError: 'DummySession' object has no attribute 'query'`
if you don't do this you get really hard to diagnose errors in unrelated
tests, due to strange import order problems or something
task takes a brodcast_message_id, and makes a post to the cbc-proxy
for now, hardcode the url to the notify stub. the stub requires template
as the admin/api get it, so use the marshmallow schema to json dump it.
Note - this also required us to tweak the BroadcastMessage.serialize
function so that it converts uuids in to ids - flask's jsonify function
does that for free but requests.post doesn't sadly.
if the request fails (either 4xx or 5xx) just raise an exception and let
it bubble up for now - in the future we'll add retry logic
