- this allows us to send a notification to a provider by means of an API call
- This is in addition to the celery code.
- idea is that we can use this method to help speed up throughput by generating API traffic by node/lambda etc to supplement the celery code in times of high load.
- Thows a NoResultFound sqlalchemy exception
- Which causes a retry. This means we give it a few goes (5, max 5 hours) for the notification to appear.
- Should never happen, only if we get some task overlaps that are unusual that leads to tasks executed in an overlapping nature.
- Aim to move the code that contacts providers into it's own module.
- Celery tasks now call this module to send to provider
- No exceptions caught in the new module. Celery tasks now use any exception to trigger a retry.
- tests moved about - new test directory for the new class, all tests from celery test module moved, excepting the retry logic.
- As before this is now driven from the notifications history table
- Removed from updates and create
- Signatures changes to removed unused params hits many files
- Also potential issue around rate limiting - we used to get the number sent per day from the stats table - which was a single row lookup, now we have to count this. This applies to EVERY API CALL. Probably not a good thing and should be addressed urgently.
- again these new come from the notifications history table
- We update this when we sent a notification, so removed from celery tasks
- tests removed also
Previously we kept a running total of job progress/success/failure on the job table. This causes contention, we now generate this data from notification history.
Removed these updates.
Removed all existing statsd logging and replaced with:
- statsd decorator. Infers the stat name from the decorated function call. Delegates statsd call to statsd client. Calls incr and timing for each decorated method. This is applied to all tasks and all dao methods that touch the notifications/notification_history tables
- statsd client changed to prefix all stats with "notification.api."
- Relies on https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-utils/pull/61 for request logging. Once integrated we pass the statsd client to the logger, allowing us to statsd all API calls. This passes in the start time and the method to be called (NOT the url) onto the global flask object. We then construct statsd counters and timers in the following way
notifications.api.POST.notifications.send_notification.200
This should allow us to aggregate to the level of
- API or ADMIN
- POST or GET etc
- modules
- methods
- status codes
Finally we count the callbacks received from 3rd parties to mapped status.
We had a test like this for sending sms, but not email. This meant that,
for example, we weren’t checking that the provider was getting passed
the HTML and plain text versions of the email.
dont send reply_to_addresses around from process_job and send_email -
take it from the service in send_email_to_provider. also clean up
the kwarg in aws_ses.send_email to more accurately reflect what we
might pass in
If the notification ends up in the retry queue and the delivery app is restarted the notification will get sent twice.
This is because when the app is restarted another message will be in the retry queue as message available which is a
duplicate of the one in the queue that is a message in flight.
This should complete https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/121844427
10 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 1 hour and 4 hours.
Total elapsed wait is max 5 hours 6 minutes and 10 seconds.
Changed visibility window of SQS to be 4 hours 10 seconds, longer the max retry period.
