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
Because we won’t be showing uploaded letters individually on the uploads
page any more we need a way of listing them. This should be by printing
day, to match how we’re grouping them on the uploads page.
The response matches a normal `get_notifications` response so we can
reuse the same code in the admin app.
Some teams have started uploading quite a lot of letters (in the
hundreds per week). They’re also uploading CSVs of emails. This means
the uploads page ends up quite jumbled.
This is because:
- there’s just a lot of items to scan through
- conceptually it’s a bit odd to have batches of things displayed
alongside individual things on the same page
So instead this commit starts grouping together uploaded letters. It
does this by the date on which we ‘start’ printing them, or in other
words the time at which they can no longer be cancelled.
This feels like a natural grouping, and it matches what we know about
people’s mental models of ‘batches’ and ‘runs’ when talking about
printing.
The code for this is a bit gnarly because:
- timezones
- the print cutoff doesn’t align with the end of a day
- we have to do this in SQL because it wouldn’t be efficient to query
thousands of letters and then do the timezone calculations on them in
Python
If your caseworking system always spits out files with the same name it
will be hard to differentiate them when looking at the uploads page.
Seeing who the letter was sent to will help you differentiate them.
We can’t do this until the API returns the recipient.
It is likely this endppoint will need additional data for the UI to display, for the first iteration this will enable the /uploads page to show both letters and jobs. Only letter uploaded by the UI are included in the resultset.
Add file name to resultset.
