Make pyslack more resilient to slack failures

[rbalik]

Slack is having an outage today where among other things they aren't properly responding to webhooks. This is causing pyslack to throw an exception in the JSON parser and bring down our whole application.

Is there a way to make the library catch these types of issues internally and fail silently if requested? The alternative is to wrap every logging call in a try/except block

[loisaidasam]

Hi @rbalik, and thanks for the heads up.

I do indeed see the Slack is experiencing degraded service this morning: https://status.slack.com/2016-12/92ca538bc556e84f

If I were to make a change, I think a reasonable solution to this problem would be calling response.raise_for_status(), raising a custom exception, and adding some sort of parameter to client calls like handle_errors_gracefully for handling that.

It's been a bit over a year since any active development of this library. It seems that Slack themselves have gone on and made their own client, which should be up to snuff with their latest API and whatnot.

For a quick fix, I'd suggest just wrapping your slack calls with try/except blocks. Sorry for the troubles, and happy holidays!

[rbalik]

Oh, I didn't realize they had their own client out. We'll have to check that out. Thanks a lot