#7 queue all notifications, add a cron script and configure in cron o…

…n mws3 setup, added array of admin contacts in case sendingn fails

deploy/mws3.cron

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import subprocess
+
+def subprocess_cmd(command):
+    """
+        Function used to run shell commands
+        This is Python that creates a Python env
+        which then runs Python commands - hhmmm
+    """
+    process = subprocess.Popen(command,stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
+    proc_stdout = process.communicate()[0].strip()
+    print proc_stdout
+
+
+import os
+
+filedir_path = "%s/.." % os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+
+schemacmd=". %s/env/bin/activate; %s/edpcmentoring/manage.py emit_notices  --settings=edpcmentoring.settings_mws3  2>&1 | sed -e '/RemovedInDjango110Warning/d' | sed -e '/raven_return, name/d'" % (filedir_path,filedir_path)
+subprocess_cmd(schemacmd)
+

deploy/setup_mws3.py

@@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ def subprocess_cmd(command):
 subprocess_cmd(copystatic)
 print "done\n"
 
+#install the cron job NB this wipes all other cron entries!:
+print "installing the cronjob"
+installcron = "(crontab -l | head -n6; echo \"*/5 * * * * python %s/deploy/mws3.cron\") | crontab -" % (filedir_path)
+subprocess_cmd(installcron)
+print "installed cron"
 
 
 

edpcmentoring/edpcmentoring/settings.py

@@ -135,11 +135,17 @@
 # Uncomment to activate the email notifications
 # PS you may wish to update user record emails to  test messages: update auth_user set email = concat('crsid+',username.'@cam.ac.uk') 
 #PINAX_NOTIFICATIONS_BACKENDS=[("email", "pinax.notifications.backends.email.EmailBackend"),]
+# queue all notifications until emit_notices is called
+#We can there for check for queued notifications and failed mail_logs (can we join the two?)
+PINAX_NOTIFICATIONS_QUEUE_ALL=True
 EMAIL_BACKEND = 'email_log.backends.EmailBackend'
 EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = '[EDPC Mentoring] '
-EMAIL_LOG_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.dummy.EmailBackend'
+#EMAIL_LOG_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.dummy.EmailBackend'
 DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'edpc-mentoring@eng.cam.ac.uk'
 
+#exception info (eg failure to run emit_notices) emailed to: 
+ADMIN = [('S.Shorrock','sms67+edpc@cam.ac.uk'),('Mentoring App','edpc-mentoring@eng.cam.ac.uk')]
+
 # Login URLs
 LOGIN_URL = 'raven_login'
 LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'mentoring:index'