From 9255a6cb17716c022ebae1dbe9c142b78ca86ea7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard van der Hoff Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:07:40 +0100 Subject: 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. --- synapse/push/emailpusher.py | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'synapse/push/emailpusher.py') diff --git a/synapse/push/emailpusher.py b/synapse/push/emailpusher.py index 58df98a793..ba7286cb72 100644 --- a/synapse/push/emailpusher.py +++ b/synapse/push/emailpusher.py @@ -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: -- cgit 1.4.1