In hc.front.views.ping_details, if a ping does not exist, return 404 instead of 500

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - Don't trigger "down" notifications when changing schedule interactively in web UI
 - Fix sendalerts crash loop when encountering a bad cron schedule
 - Stricter cron validation, reject schedules like "At midnight of February 31"
+- In hc.front.views.ping_details, if a ping does not exist, return 404 instead of 500
 
 ## v1.12.0 - 2020-01-02
 

hc/front/tests/test_ping_details.py

@@ -52,3 +52,10 @@ class LastPingTestCase(BaseTestCase):
         self.client.login(username="bob@example.org", password="password")
         r = self.client.get("/checks/%s/last_ping/" % check.code)
         self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
+
+    def test_it_handles_missing_ping(self):
+        check = Check.objects.create(project=self.project)
+
+        self.client.login(username="alice@example.org", password="password")
+        r = self.client.get("/checks/%s/pings/123/" % check.code)
+        self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 404)

hc/front/views.py

@@ -424,7 +424,10 @@ def ping_details(request, code, n=None):
     if n:
         q = q.filter(n=n)
 
-    ping = q.latest("created")
+    try:
+        ping = q.latest("created")
+    except Ping.DoesNotExist:
+        raise Http404("not found")
 
     ctx = {"check": check, "ping": ping}