Improve exception handling for background processes

There were a bunch of places where we fire off a process to happen in the
background, but don't have any exception handling on it - instead relying on
the unhandled error being logged when the relevent deferred gets
garbage-collected.

This is unsatisfactory for a number of reasons:
 - logging on garbage collection is best-effort and may happen some time after
   the error, if at all
 - it can be hard to figure out where the error actually happened.
 - it is logged as a scary CRITICAL error which (a) I always forget to grep for
   and (b) it's not really CRITICAL if a background process we don't care about
   fails.

So this is an attempt to add exception handling to everything we fire off into
the background.
This commit is contained in:
Richard van der Hoff 2018-04-27 11:07:40 +01:00
parent 0ced8b5b47
commit 9255a6cb17
20 changed files with 331 additions and 233 deletions

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@ -77,10 +77,13 @@ class EmailPusher(object):
@defer.inlineCallbacks
def on_started(self):
if self.mailer is not None:
self.throttle_params = yield self.store.get_throttle_params_by_room(
self.pusher_id
)
yield self._process()
try:
self.throttle_params = yield self.store.get_throttle_params_by_room(
self.pusher_id
)
yield self._process()
except Exception:
logger.exception("Error starting email pusher")
def on_stop(self):
if self.timed_call: