Dont clear when the same, only clear the error on edit

changedetectionio/flask_app.py

@@ -679,7 +679,10 @@ def changedetection_app(config=None, datastore_o=None):
 
         if request.method == 'POST' and form.validate():
 
-            extra_update_obj = {}
+            extra_update_obj = {
+                'consecutive_filter_failures': 0,
+                'last_error' : False
+            }
 
             if request.args.get('unpause_on_save'):
                 extra_update_obj['paused'] = False

changedetectionio/model/App.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from changedetectionio.notification import (
     default_notification_title,
 )
 
+# Equal to or greater than this number of FilterNotFoundInResponse exceptions will trigger a filter-not-found notification
 _FILTER_FAILURE_THRESHOLD_ATTEMPTS_DEFAULT = 6
 DEFAULT_SETTINGS_HEADERS_USERAGENT='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36'
 

changedetectionio/tests/test_filter_failure_notification.py

@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@ def set_response_with_filter():
         f.write(test_return_data)
     return None
 
-def run_filter_test(client, content_filter):
+def run_filter_test(client, live_server, content_filter):
+
+    # Response WITHOUT the filter ID element
+    set_original_response()
 
-    # Give the endpoint time to spin up
-    time.sleep(1)
     # cleanup for the next
     client.get(
         url_for("form_delete", uuid="all"),
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ def run_filter_test(client, content_filter):
         "include_filters": content_filter,
         "fetch_backend": "html_requests"})
 
+    # A POST here will also reset the filter failure counter (filter_failure_notification_threshold_attempts)
     res = client.post(
         url_for("edit_page", uuid="first"),
         data=notification_form_data,
@@ -91,20 +93,21 @@ def run_filter_test(client, content_filter):
     # Now the notification should not exist, because we didnt reach the threshold
     assert not os.path.isfile("test-datastore/notification.txt")
 
-    # -2 because we would have checked twice above (on adding and on edit)
+    # recheck it up to just before the threshold, including the fact that in the previous POST it would have rechecked (and incremented)
     for i in range(0, App._FILTER_FAILURE_THRESHOLD_ATTEMPTS_DEFAULT-2):
-        res = client.get(url_for("form_watch_checknow"), follow_redirects=True)
+        client.get(url_for("form_watch_checknow"), follow_redirects=True)
         wait_for_all_checks(client)
-        assert not os.path.isfile("test-datastore/notification.txt"), f"test-datastore/notification.txt should not exist - Attempt {i}"
+        time.sleep(2) # delay for apprise to fire
+        assert not os.path.isfile("test-datastore/notification.txt"), f"test-datastore/notification.txt should not exist - Attempt {i} when threshold is {App._FILTER_FAILURE_THRESHOLD_ATTEMPTS_DEFAULT}"
 
     # We should see something in the frontend
+    res = client.get(url_for("index"))
     assert b'Warning, no filters were found' in res.data
 
-    # One more check should trigger it (see -2 above)
-    client.get(url_for("form_watch_checknow"), follow_redirects=True)
-    wait_for_all_checks(client)
+    # One more check should trigger the _FILTER_FAILURE_THRESHOLD_ATTEMPTS_DEFAULT threshold
     client.get(url_for("form_watch_checknow"), follow_redirects=True)
     wait_for_all_checks(client)
+    time.sleep(2)  # delay for apprise to fire
     # Now it should exist and contain our "filter not found" alert
     assert os.path.isfile("test-datastore/notification.txt")
 
@@ -149,13 +152,9 @@ def test_setup(live_server):
     live_server_setup(live_server)
 
 def test_check_include_filters_failure_notification(client, live_server):
-    set_original_response()
-    wait_for_all_checks(client)
-    run_filter_test(client, '#nope-doesnt-exist')
+    run_filter_test(client, live_server,'#nope-doesnt-exist')
 
 def test_check_xpath_filter_failure_notification(client, live_server):
-    set_original_response()
-    time.sleep(1)
-    run_filter_test(client, '//*[@id="nope-doesnt-exist"]')
+    run_filter_test(client, live_server, '//*[@id="nope-doesnt-exist"]')
 
 # Test that notification is never sent

changedetectionio/update_worker.py

@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ class update_worker(threading.Thread):
                             # Send notification if we reached the threshold?
                             threshold = self.datastore.data['settings']['application'].get('filter_failure_notification_threshold_attempts',
                                                                                            0)
-                            logger.error(f"Filter for {uuid} not found, consecutive_filter_failures: {c}")
+                            logger.warning(f"Filter for {uuid} not found, consecutive_filter_failures: {c}")
                             if threshold > 0 and c >= threshold:
                                 if not self.datastore.data['watching'][uuid].get('notification_muted'):
                                     self.send_filter_failure_notification(uuid)
@@ -362,7 +362,6 @@ class update_worker(threading.Thread):
                         # Yes fine, so nothing todo, don't continue to process.
                         process_changedetection_results = False
                         changed_detected = False
-                        self.datastore.update_watch(uuid=uuid, update_obj={'last_error': False})
                     except content_fetchers.exceptions.BrowserConnectError as e:
                         self.datastore.update_watch(uuid=uuid,
                                                     update_obj={'last_error': e.msg