- uses the reference field on the notifications table to store a 16char random string used to cross reference DVLA letters back to the notification
- used as letter barcode does not have space for a UUID notification id
Depends on https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-utils/pull/149
Renamed the numeric_id to notification_reference in utils and changed validation rules to match this
Note also the persist_notification method set "reference" to be "client_reference" which is confusing and they are different things, so fixed this too.
Problem: we were sending the first line of the address in the
`TO_NAME_2` field. This meant that they couldn’t do any PAF lookups with
it, because it wasn’t where they were expecting.
The first line of the address is the second line of what our users give
us. We need to give this to DVLA as the _third_ line of the address
output, which they call `TO_ADDRESS_LINE_1`.
- previously this was unbounded, so it got all jobs older then 7 days. In excess of 75,000 🔥
- this meant that the job took (a) a long time and (b) a lot memory and (c) doing the same thing every day
These changes mean that the job has a 2 day eligible window for jobs, minimising the number of eligible jobs in a run, whilst still retaining some leeway in event if it failing one night.
In principle the job runs early morning on a given day. The previous 7 days are left along, and then the previous 2 days worth of files are deleted:
so:
runs on
31st
30,29,28,27,26,25,24 are ignored
23,22 jobs here have files deleted
21 and earlier are ignored.
- This is a CONNECT and a READ timeout.
- Gets wrapped in the standard client exception, with a status code of 504, message Gateway timeout.
- Is quiet noisy in logs to allow us to see it
- Ensures we flick across the provider.
To test change the timeout to 0 and it will timeout.
Brings in:
- [ ] https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-utils/pull/135
Also adds extra tests for:
- the exact issue that we saw in production when #867 was deployed
- what happens when `None` is passed as a placeholder value, because
this should never get as far as the relevant bit of utils
If the date range is with the last 7 days we query Notifcations.
If the date range is outside of the last 7 days we query NotificationHistory.
NotificationHistory does not persist notifications created with a test api key.
