- 2 separate tasks - DB and Provider
- DB to persist notification
- Provider to contact provider
- Each piece has separate retries
- Provider retries have configured back-off
- if a service is in research mode the don't send the notifications via the providers (MMG/SES/etc)
- instead set up a task to mimic those services callbacks - this completes the loop, and show stats, delivery receipts and so on.
- Use the "to" field to choose the response, allows users to create successful and errored notifications
temp fail sms, uses "07833333333"
perm fail sms, uses = "07822222222"
success = "07811111111" (or anything else)
success email = "delivered@simulator.notify"
perm fail = "perm-fail@simulator.notify"
temp fail = "temp-fail@simulator.notify"
- new client for statsd, follows conventions used elsewhere for configuration
- client wraps underlying library so we can use a config property to send/not send statsd
Added statsd metrics for:
- count of API successful calls SMS/Email
- count of successful task execution for SMS/Email
- count of errors from Client libraries
- timing of API calls to third party clients
- timing of how long messages live on the SQS queue
Update notifications/sms|email endpoint to send the template version to the queue.
Update the process_job celery talk to send the template version to the queue.
When the send_sms|send_email task runs it will get the template by id and version.
Created a data migration script to add the template_vesion column for jobs and notifications.
The existing jobs and notifications are given the template_version of the current template.
There is a chance this is the wrong template version, but deemed okay since the application is not live.
Create unit test for the dao_get_template_versions method.
Rename /template/<id>/version to /template/<id>/versions which returns all versions for that template id and service id.
It’s nicer to have emails with a sender name, as well as the raw email
address.
Amazon SES can acheive this by using the format
```
"Sender name" <sender.name@domain.com>
```
— http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/email-format.html
We also have to remove all non-ASCII characters from the sender name,
because SMTP only supports 7-bit ASCII:
> A field name MUST be composed of printable US-ASCII characters (i.e.,
> characters that have values between 33 and 126, inclusive), except
> colon.
— http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt
We use the service name as the sender name when:
- sending emails from the API
- sending emails from a CSV file
We use GOV.UK Notify as the sender name when:
- sending invitation emails
- sending password reset emails
