failmail 0.1.1

A Python package to notify users via email when exceptions occur.

✉️ Failmail

Failmail is a Python package designed to send email notifications when exceptions are raised in your application. It offers an easy-to-use registry system to associate specific exceptions with customizable email alerts. You can specify the recipients, subject, body, and format (plain-text or HTML) for the notifications.

Note: Failmail is in early development. The API may change as new features are added and refined.

🌱 Getting Started

🔧 Installation

To install the package, run:

pip install failmail

For the latest development version directly from the repository, use:

pip install git+https://github.com/spyel/failmail.git

🖥️ Usage

First, create an instance of ExceptionNotifier and configure it with your SMTP server details:

from failmail import ExceptionNotifier

# Set up the notifier with your SMTP server details
notifier = ExceptionNotifier(
    host=('smtp.example.com', 587),       # SMTP server address and port
    sender_email='[e-mail]',    # Sender's email address
    credentials=('username', 'password'), # SMTP login credentials (optional)
    encryption='tls'                      # Encryption type: 'tls' or 'ssl' or 'none'
)

Next, register specific exceptions along with their corresponding email notifications. You can define the recipients, subject, body, and the format of the email (either plain or html):

notifier.register_exception(
    exception_type=ValueError,  # The exception to register
    recipients=['[e-mail]'],
    subject='Error: ${error_type} occurred',
    body='An error of type ${error_type} occurred at ${timestamp}.\n\nMessage: ${error_message}\n\nTraceback:\n${error_traceback}',
    body_type='plain'  # Use 'html' for HTML format
)

When an exception occurs, use the notify() method to send the email notification:

try:
    # Some code that may raise an exception
    raise ValueError("Something went wrong!")
except Exception as e:
    # Notify recipients when an exception is raised
    notifier.notify(e)

You can also include additional context to customize the email notification. This context will be used to format the subject and body of the email:

additional_context = {
    'custom_info': 'Additional data for the notification'
}
notifier.notify(e, additional_context=additional_context)

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.