Improve error handling to spare the server log from user's malformed requests and stop trying to parse data from providers if the HTTP status was not 200

server/handlers/api/solar_conditions.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import logging
 from datetime import datetime
 from typing import Any
 
@@ -7,6 +8,7 @@ from tornado import httputil
 from tornado.web import Application
 
 from core.prometheus_metrics_handler import api_requests_counter
+from core.utils import safe_json_dumps
 
 
 class APISolarConditionsHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
@@ -22,13 +24,19 @@ class APISolarConditionsHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
         self._web_server_metrics = web_server_metrics
 
     def get(self):
-        # Metrics
-        self._web_server_metrics["last_api_access_time"] = datetime.now(pytz.UTC)
-        self._web_server_metrics["api_access_counter"] += 1
-        self._web_server_metrics["status"] = "OK"
-        api_requests_counter.inc()
+        try:
+            # Metrics
+            self._web_server_metrics["last_api_access_time"] = datetime.now(pytz.UTC)
+            self._web_server_metrics["api_access_counter"] += 1
+            self._web_server_metrics["status"] = "OK"
+            api_requests_counter.inc()
 
-        self.write(self._solar_conditions.to_json())
-        self.set_status(200)
-        self.set_header("Cache-Control", "no-store")
-        self.set_header("Content-Type", "application/json")
+            self.write(self._solar_conditions.to_json())
+            self.set_status(200)
+            self.set_header("Cache-Control", "no-store")
+            self.set_header("Content-Type", "application/json")
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            logging.error("Exception when handling client request to solar conditions API: %s", e, exc_info=True)
+            self.write(safe_json_dumps("Error - an internal server error occurred."))
+            self.set_status(500)