We found that non-templated broadcast messages weren’t having their
content normalised before saving into an event.
This means that stuff like `\r\n` and curly quotes were being passed
through to the CBC proxy.
This commit firstly changes templated events to use
`str(BroadcastMessageTemplate)` to normalise the content, because it’s
non-obvious that calling
`BroadcastMessageTemplate.content_with_placeholders_filled_in` also
normalises content.
Then it changes the non-templated route to also call
`str(BroadcastMessageTemplate)`, where previously it was passing the
content straight through.
We want to replace the value `None` for
service.allowed_broadcast_provider with the value of "all". As a first
step, we need to allow both values. Once notifications-admin has been
changed to pass through "all" and all the data in the database has been
updated, we can update the code to stop supporting both values.
This adds a type table for broadcast providers, which is the pattern we
follow with our models (e.g. we have a `broadcast_channel_types` table).
As well as the four providers, the migration populates it with `all`
which is the value that will replace `null` in a later change.
It should be safe to add the foreign key constraint to the
`service_broadcast_settings` in the same migration since the column is
still nullable and we don't have data in that column that is not in the
types table.
DVLA would like to be able to identify letters sent by the Insolvency
Service, so we are changing the zipfile name. They need all zipfile
names to have the same structure, so we can't just add a marker to files
sent by that service - we have to change all filenames.
The new format is like this:
`{NOTIFY}.{DATE}.{SEQUENCE_ID}.{UNIQUE_ID}.{SERVICE_ID}.{ORG_NAME}.{EXTENSION}`
Second attempt [1]. This increases the threshold so:
- It's a more substantial amount of money lost (£16).
- It's 10% of the minimum free allowance for a service.
- It's greater than the threshold we have for TV numbers (500).
Having a higher threshold for this alert will help prevent wasted
effort investigating more negligible failures, and reduces the
ambiguity of whether we should take action: we should.
[1]: https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api/pull/3221
When deploying to paas the database postgres environment variables are set using VCAP_SERVICES provided by PaaS. When we start up the app and set the properties we need to replace the postgres string with postgresql for the app to start up properly.
This wasn't caught locally or with the unit tests because we were setting this property with postgresql.
`service_ids_to_purge` is a list of `row` object rather than a list of `UUID`.
NOTE: db.session.query(Service).filter(Service.id.notin_(services_with_data_retention)).all() would have also worked. It seems that only selecting attributes from the db.Model has caused the change.
- sqlalchemy.sql.expression.case must include an else statement.
- clearly define list of columns for inbound_sms_history insert, getting the list from InboundSmsHistory.__table__.c was causing data type errors.
- remove relationships when not needed, the foreign key relationship is established in the creation of the column. This will get rid of the warnings referenced here: http://sqlalche.me/e/14/qzyx.
- update queries now that he user relationship in ServiceUser db model has been removed.
- move the check that a template is archived to the view instead of the dao method. The check was clearing the session before the version history could be done.
Deleting notifications in the night tasks still needs to be
investigated. The raw sql is causing an error.
if you run `make help` or just `make` then you get a nice list of the
tasks that you can run (or at least, the ones with help text added to
them.
We were missing these for some of the key commands that a developer
would want to know about.
By adding help text to them, they will now show up in `make` or `make
help` and saves a developer needing to go either look in the README or
go look in the Makefile to figure out what commands are available.
Note, there is no particular convention around which commands have help
comments. I don't think we need to figure out this but at the least, the
ones which developers may want to run locally I think should show up.
If this alert goes off in the morning, it usually means we need to do
something, ideally quite quickly as it indicates a potential problem
with the sending of letters over to DVLA the night before.
Given this goes off at 9am at the moment, but actually some people start
work earlier, if we alert at 7am it means it will likely be looked at
earlier in the day and we can potentially fix any problems with letters
sooner than later.
This applies the same change we made in other apps [1][2]. Adding
the override here is special, though, because it means the others
will now get triggered, since this app is the start of the chain
of tasks for a request. We will also retain existing request_id
tracing for tasks within this app, since "apply_async" calls the
"send_task" method internally, which is the one we're overriding.
[1]: 6f3c118a1e
[2]: 2e08b7aa95
`service_ids_to_purge` is a list of `row` object rather than a list of `UUID`.
NOTE: db.session.query(Service).filter(Service.id.notin_(services_with_data_retention)).all() would have also worked. It seems that only selecting attributes from the db.Model has caused the change.
- sqlalchemy.sql.expression.case must include an else statement.
- clearly define list of columns for inbound_sms_history insert, getting the list from InboundSmsHistory.__table__.c was causing data type errors.
- remove relationships when not needed, the foreign key relationship is established in the creation of the column. This will get rid of the warnings referenced here: http://sqlalche.me/e/14/qzyx.
- update queries now that he user relationship in ServiceUser db model has been removed.
- move the check that a template is archived to the view instead of the dao method. The check was clearing the session before the version history could be done.
Deleting notifications in the night tasks still needs to be
investigated. The raw sql is causing an error.
This is a belt-and-braces check because the admin app already checks
this. But since we do it for SMS already it makes sense to replicate it
for broadcast templates.
This changes the content length validation of the internal API to match
the validation of the public broadcast API[1].
This removes the length check from JSONSchema, which isn’t sophisticated
enough to deal with things like normalising newlines or handling
different encodings.
The admin app should catch these errors before they’re raised here, but
it’s best to be belt and braces.
1.7ab0403ae7/app/v2/broadcast/post_broadcast.py (L53-L63)
