This deletes a big ol' chunk of code related to letters. It's not everything—there are still a few things that might be tied to sms/email—but it's the the heart of letters function. SMS and email function should be untouched by this.
Areas affected:
- Things obviously about letters
- PDF tasks, used for precompiling letters
- Virus scanning, used for those PDFs
- FTP, used to send letters to the printer
- Postage stuff
This was creating data in the Notifications table but the funcetion
under test was - now the timestamps are in the past - looking in the
NotificationHistory table. Freezing the time of the test fixes that.
Previously we were looping over data from the Notifications/History
table and then shovelling it into the status table, one row at a time
- plus an extra delete to clean up any existing data.
This replaces that with a batch insertion, similar to how we archive
notifications [1], but using a simple subquery (via "from_select" [2])
instead of a temporary table.
To make the select compatible with the insert, I've used "literal"
to inject the constant pieces of data, so each row has everything it
needs to go into the status table.
[1]: 9ce6d2fe92/app/dao/notifications_dao.py (L295)
[2]: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/core/dml.html#sqlalchemy.sql.expression.Insert.from_select
The previous DAO tests were also confusing because they were testing
two functions at the same time, so moving the tests up to the task
level seems very reasonable, and will make it easier to change how
this code works in the next commits.
This covers that we only exclude test notifications and the key
type is copied over correctly. In the next commits we're going to
modify this part of the query, so it's important it's covered.
The trouble is the aggregate query to return the big blue numbers on the dashboard and /notifications/{notification_type} page is taking too long to return.
I have some ideas on how to improve the query, but should take some time to do some more research and test. In the meantime, let's just ignore "todays" total numbers for the high volume services. There are only two services that this will affect.
We no longer will send them any stats so therefore don't need the code
- the code to work out the nightly stats
- the performance platform client
- any configuration for the client
- any nightly tasks that kick off the sending off the stats
We will require a change in cronitor as we no longer will have this task
run meaning we need to delete the cronitor check.
The '/service/monthly-data-by-service` endpoint which is used for the
'Monthly notification statuses for live services' Platform Admin report
did not including `pending` notifications. This updates the DAO function
that the endpoint calls to group `pending` and `sending` notifications together.
the nightly task won't be affected, it'll just trigger three times more
sub-tasks.
this doesn't need to be a two-part deploy because we only trigger this
overnight, so as long as the deploy completes in daytime we don't need
to worry about celery task signatures
previously we checked notifications table, and if the results were
zero, checked the notification history table to see if there's data
in there. When we know that data isn't in notifications, we're still
checking. These queries take half a second per service, and we're
doing at least ten for each of the five thousand services we have in
notify. Most of these services have no data in either table for any
given day, and we can reduce the amount of queries we do by only
checking one table.
Check the data retention for a service, and then if the date is older
than the retention, get from history table.
NOTE: This requires that the delete tasks haven't run yet for the day!
If your retention is three days, this will look in the Notification
table for data from three days ago - expecting that shortly after the
task finishes, we'll delete that data.
This PR updates those queries to look in either Notification or NotificationHistory. Since the data does not exist in both tables at the same time we can do with and not worry about the data retention.
The query will iterate over each service, then each notification type and query the data if no results then try the history table.
the create_nightly_notification_status task runs at 00:30am UK time,
however this means that in summer datetime.today() will return the
wrong date as the server (which runs on UTC) will run the task at
23:30 (populating the wrong row in the table).
fix this to use nice tz aware functions
The previous query was including all notifications regardless of notification_status. I don't think that's right, it shouldn't include things like technical-failure or validation-failed. Thoughts?
I also need to remove the query that's no longer being used.
