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Look through StripeService modules and remove error swallowing #611

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Problem

A lot of our StripeXService modules use with statements in their public functions.

Some of those with statements have else blocks with a catch all clause along the lines of

with
  #...
do
  # ...
else
  # ...
  _ -> {:error, :unhandled}
end

The problem with that is that this behavior basically swallows an error, still causes a function clause mismatch error in the controller that called the function (since the controller is not expecting an {:error, :unhandled} reply, but ends up swallowing any useful information which sentry might log otherwise, such as what the actual response was, where it happened, etc.

We should go through all of our with blocks, remove these catch-all clauses and if that means the else block is empty, remove the else block altogether. As unexpected things occur, sentry will log these things and then we can progressively add handling for specific types of errors.

We actually do this with some transaction statements to, so we should remove it from there as well.

Subtasks

  • Go through all StripeService base modules
  • Remove catch all clauses from if blocks
  • Fix tests that might brake (basically remove tests that expect an {:error, :unhandled} reply.
  • Do the same for transaction statements

References

#543 (comment) for some additional information.

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