Better non-root permission handling (#55)

apprise_api/api/tests/test_add.py

@@ -107,6 +107,19 @@ class AddTests(SimpleTestCase):
         )
         assert response.status_code == 400
 
+        # Test the handling of underlining disk/write exceptions
+        with patch('os.makedirs') as mock_mkdirs:
+            mock_mkdirs.side_effect = OSError()
+            # We'll fail to write our key now
+            response = self.client.post(
+                '/add/{}'.format(key),
+                data=json.dumps({'urls': 'mailto://user:pass@yahoo.ca'}),
+                content_type='application/json',
+            )
+
+            # internal errors are correctly identified
+            assert response.status_code == 500
+
         # Test the handling of underlining disk/write exceptions
         with patch('gzip.open') as mock_open:
             mock_open.side_effect = OSError()

apprise_api/api/utils.py

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ from django.conf import settings
 import logging
 
 # Get an instance of a logger
-logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+logger = logging.getLogger('django')
 
 
 class AppriseStoreMode(object):
@@ -120,7 +120,13 @@ class AppriseConfigCache(object):
 
         # First two characters are reserved for cache level directory writing.
         path, filename = self.path(key)
-        os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True)
+        try:
+            os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True)
+
+        except OSError:
+            # Permission error
+            logger.error('Could not create directory {}'.format(path))
+            return False
 
         # Write our file to a temporary file
         _, tmp_path = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix='.tmp', dir=path)