Upstream weather service partial outage is not handled

[mkrauss]

Upstream weather service partial outage is not handled

[raquo]

Good to know, thanks. Makes sense.

Ideally I'd rather fix this when I can see the error happening, so if anyone sees this error again on the weather gradient page, please ping me here. Otherwise, I'll get to it... eventually...

[raquo]

Ah it seems that I am too late to debug this, they must have fixed the station outage already.

Do you remember what exactly you've seen in the API response? Was the API returning <currentConditions></currentConditions>? As in, the element was present, but had no contents?

If that's the case, it looks like it would be quite painful to properly represent that in the phobos XML decoders that we use.

I guess we could work around the issue by regex-finding <currentConditions>[whitespace]</currentConditions> in responseText in WeatherFetcher.scala:31...

[mkrauss]

Yes, the element was present but had no contents, definitely. If I recall correctly, I think it was actually <currentConditions/>, a single self-closing tag, but I'm not completely sure of that.