By explicitly importing the legacy namespace classes, we make it clear
that we are using soon-to-be-deprecated classes. We will then be able to
start removing the legacy classes, one module at a time.
This fixes a misuse of New Relic terminology. Here we are in fact using
custom attributes; custom metrics are a different thing that we may start
using in the future.
Instead of going up the stacktrace to find the module names of waffle
flags and switches, we manually pass the module __name__ whenever the
flag is created. This is similar to `logging.getLogger(__name__)`
standard behaviour.
As the waffle classes are used outside of edx-platform, we make the new
module_name argument an optional keyword argument. This will change once
we pull waffle_utils outside of edx-platform.
Note that the module name is normally only required to view the list of
existing waffle flags and switches. The module name should not be
necessary to verify if a flag is enabled. Thus, maybe it would make
sense to create a `add` class methor similar to:
class WaffleFlag:
@classmethod
def add(cls, namespace, flag, module):
instance = cls(namespace, flag)
cls._class_instances.add((instance, module))
This adds middleware that will create custom parameter metrics in
New Relic to track the size of all the cookies being received for
our domain. The custom fields are "cookies_total_size" and a
separate named parameter for every cookie size, e.g.
"cookies.csrftoken.size".
This is intended to help us track cookie growth and better diagnose
issues where users lose their sessions. It is toggled by the
'request_utils.capture_cookie_sizes' Waffle Flag.
