Show a warning in project's top navigation if the project has no configured integrations. Fixes #327

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - Added an example of capturing and submitting log output (#315)
 - The sendalerts commands measures dwell time and reports it over statsd protocol
 - Django 3.0.3
+- Show a warning in top navigation if the project has no integrations (#327)
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 - Increase the allowable length of Matrix room alias to 100 (#320)

hc/accounts/models.py

@@ -282,8 +282,15 @@ class Project(models.Model):
                 break
         return status
 
-    def have_broken_channels(self):
-        return self.channel_set.exclude(last_error="").exists()
+    def have_channel_issues(self):
+        errors = list(self.channel_set.values_list("last_error", flat=True))
+
+        # It's a problem if a project has no integrations at all
+        if len(errors) == 0:
+            return True
+
+        # It's a problem if any integration has a logged error
+        return True if max(errors) else False
 
 
 class Member(models.Model):

hc/accounts/tests/test_project_model.py

@@ -15,9 +15,15 @@ class ProjectModelTestCase(BaseTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(self.project.num_checks_available(), 18)
 
     def test_it_handles_zero_broken_channels(self):
-        self.assertFalse(self.project.have_broken_channels())
+        Channel.objects.create(kind="webhook", last_error="", project=self.project)
+
+        self.assertFalse(self.project.have_channel_issues())
 
     def test_it_handles_one_broken_channel(self):
         Channel.objects.create(kind="webhook", last_error="x", project=self.project)
 
-        self.assertTrue(self.project.have_broken_channels())
+        self.assertTrue(self.project.have_channel_issues())
+
+    def test_it_handles_no_channels(self):
+        # It's an issue if the project has no channels at all:
+        self.assertTrue(self.project.have_channel_issues())

hc/front/tests/test_channels.py

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class ChannelsTestCase(BaseTestCase):
         r = self.client.get("/integrations/")
         self.assertRedirects(r, "/")
 
-    def test_it_shows_broken_channel_indicator(self):
+    def test_it_shows_channel_issues_indicator(self):
         Channel.objects.create(kind="sms", project=self.project, last_error="x")
 
         self.client.login(username="alice@example.org", password="password")

templates/base.html

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
                         <a href="{% url 'hc-checks' project.code %}">Checks</a>
                     </li>
 
-                    {% with b=project.have_broken_channels %}
+                    {% with b=project.have_channel_issues %}
                     <li {% if b %}id="broken-channels"{% endif %} {% if page == 'channels' %}class="active"{% endif %}>
                         <a href="{% url 'hc-channels' %}">
                             Integrations

templates/front/channels.html

@@ -150,8 +150,14 @@
         {% endfor %}
     </table>
     {% else %}
-        <div class="alert alert-info">
-            The project <strong>{{ project }}</strong> has no integrations set up yet.
+        <div class="alert alert-danger">
+            <p> The project "{{ project }}" does not have any integrations
+                set up yet.
+            </p>
+            <p>With no configured integrations, {% site_name %}
+                <strong>will not send any notifications</strong>
+                when checks change state.
+            </p>
         </div>
     {% endif %}