Trap exceptions when posting to social media

The providers themselves would catch some exceptions and turn them into
proper error messages, but for the cases where they don't, we want the
loop in the sender to do so for us and just log the exception message.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/postgresqleu/util/messaging/sender.py b/postgresqleu/util/messaging/sender.py
index 3301b15d..73dc3701 100644
--- a/postgresqleu/util/messaging/sender.py
+++ b/postgresqleu/util/messaging/sender.py
@@ -126,14 +126,18 @@ FOR UPDATE OF confreg_conferencetweetqueue"""))
                 contents = t.contents[str(p.id)] if isinstance(t.contents, dict) else t.contents
                 # Don't try to post it if it's empty
                 if contents:
-                    (id, errmsg) = impl.post(
-                        truncate_shortened_post(
-                            contents,
-                            impl.max_post_length
-                        ),
-                        t.image,
-                        t.replytotweetid,
-                    )
+                    try:
+                        (id, errmsg) = impl.post(
+                            truncate_shortened_post(
+                                contents,
+                                impl.max_post_length
+                            ),
+                            t.image,
+                            t.replytotweetid,
+                        )
+                    except Exception as e:
+                        errmsg = "Exception: {}".format(e)
+                        id = None
 
                     if id:
                         t.remainingtosend.remove(p)