fix(buckinghamshire): move to the council's current form-engine endpoints - #2224
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Buckinghamshire collector now uses a four-step iTouchVision form-engine session. It submits the UPRN, discovers web-service inputs, retrieves rendered collection HTML, parses dates, and sorts collection rows. ChangesBuckinghamshire collection retrieval
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new Buckinghamshire collection flow works against the replacement service, but unexpected service mappings or date formats can fail unclearly, and redirects may forward address-derived request data. These issues should be resolved before release. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant parse_data
participant form_engine as iTouchVision form engine
participant parser as BeautifulSoup
parse_data->>form_engine: Submit UPRN via service/saveqadata
form_engine-->>parse_data: Return saved form response
parse_data->>form_engine: Fetch form definition via plugin/getformdata
form_engine-->>parse_data: Return form definition and web-service identifiers
parse_data->>form_engine: Fetch collection results via plugin/getWSRResult
form_engine-->>parse_data: Return rendered collection HTML
parse_data->>parser: Parse collection table
parser-->>parse_data: Return dated collection rows
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In `@uk_bin_collection/uk_bin_collection/councils/BuckinghamshireCouncil.py`:
- Around line 266-267: Update the input mapping fallback in the surrounding
discovery flow so an empty or unusable WS_INPUTS result raises ValueError
containing the mapping response instead of constructing a default {"uprn": ...}
payload; preserve the existing path when valid input_data is available.
- Line 145: Update the date parsing logic around datetime.strptime in the
Buckinghamshire collector to validate that raw_date contains the expected second
split element before indexing it, and raise a descriptive ValueError for blank
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| crossed a year boundary and the date belongs to next year. Yesterday is | ||
| tolerated so a collection earlier today is not pushed twelve months out. | ||
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| parsed = datetime.strptime(raw_date.split(" ", 1)[1].strip(), "%d %B") |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Raise ValueError for malformed collection dates.
Line 145 indexes the second split element without checking that it exists. A blank or reformatted table cell raises IndexError instead of the descriptive format error used by this collector.
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- parsed = datetime.strptime(raw_date.split(" ", 1)[1].strip(), "%d %B")
+ parts = raw_date.split(maxsplit=1)
+ if len(parts) != 2:
+ raise ValueError(f"Invalid collection date format: {raw_date!r}")
+ parsed = datetime.strptime(parts[1], "%d %B")Based on learnings, unexpected council formats must raise explicit exceptions.
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| parsed = datetime.strptime(raw_date.split(" ", 1)[1].strip(), "%d %B") | |
| parts = raw_date.split(maxsplit=1) | |
| if len(parts) != 2: | |
| raise ValueError(f"Invalid collection date format: {raw_date!r}") | |
| parsed = datetime.strptime(parts[1], "%d %B") |
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In `@uk_bin_collection/uk_bin_collection/councils/BuckinghamshireCouncil.py` at
line 145, Update the date parsing logic around datetime.strptime in the
Buckinghamshire collector to validate that raw_date contains the expected second
split element before indexing it, and raise a descriptive ValueError for blank
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| if not input_data: | ||
| input_data = {"uprn": str(user_uprn)} |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not guess an input when mapping discovery fails.
When WS_INPUTS has no usable entries, Line 267 silently replaces the discovered contract with a hard-coded uprn key. A form-engine change then produces a later, less useful result error and can send an invalid request. Raise ValueError with the mapping response instead.
Based on learnings, unexpected council formats must raise explicit exceptions instead of selecting a silent default.
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In `@uk_bin_collection/uk_bin_collection/councils/BuckinghamshireCouncil.py`
around lines 266 - 267, Update the input mapping fallback in the surrounding
discovery flow so an empty or unusable WS_INPUTS result raises ValueError
containing the mapping response instead of constructing a default {"uprn": ...}
payload; preserve the existing path when valid input_data is available.
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The single-call /kmbd/collectionDay endpoint has been retired. It still
resolves, still returns HTTP 200, and still returns a validly encrypted,
correctly padded, well-formed JSON body - but that body is permanently
{"collectionDay": null}. Every guard in the scraper therefore passed and
the failure surfaced as an opaque "'NoneType' object is not iterable"
from the map() over the null, which pointed nowhere useful.
Collection data now comes from a four-step session against iTouchVision's
generic form engine at /gdsv5/:
1. service/saveqadata - submit the UPRN, receive a report id
2. plugin/getformdata - fetch the form definition
3. plugin/getWSRInputMapping - discover the web service's expected inputs
4. plugin/getWSRResult - retrieve the collection table
The AES-256-CBC key and IV are unchanged and work on all four endpoints in
both directions, so the existing crypto helpers are reused as-is. P_CLIENT_ID
(152) and P_COUNCIL_ID (34505) are also unchanged - the identifiers were never
the problem, only the route.
Steps 2 and 3 are discovery rather than overhead. Step 2 locates the form's
web-service item by I_TYPE == "WEB_SERVICE_REF" instead of hardcoding its id,
so a form rebuild that renumbers items does not break the scraper. Step 3
returns the name and value of every input step 4 expects, so P_INPUT_DATA is
built from the service's own answer rather than a hardcoded "uprn".
Two details found the hard way and worth preserving:
- P_USER_ID must be absent from the getWSRResult call. The council's own site
omits it there while sending it on the two preceding calls, and including it
makes the service reject the request with "Error occurred. Please check
input data".
- Only REPORT_UPRN is required in the submission. The council's site also
sends the full address, coordinates, USRN and LPI key, but the form's hidden
field is derived from the UPRN alone, so none of that personal data needs to
be sent.
The service returns rendered HTML rather than structured data, so collections
are read out of the returned govuk-table. Dates arrive without a year
("Saturday 5 September"), so the year is inferred: parse against the current
year, roll forward if that lands in the past, with a day of tolerance so a
collection earlier today is not pushed twelve months out.
Bin type strings now come from the council's own table, so users with an
existing icon_color_mapping for Buckinghamshire will need to update it.
Verified live end-to-end against the input.json fixture UPRN (100081093078)
and a second Buckinghamshire address. Full unit suite passes (244) and the
live BDD test for this council passes. input.json needs no change - the
existing entry already carries the right UPRN and skip_get_url.
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The single-call /kmbd/collectionDay endpoint seems to have been retired. It still resolves, still returns HTTP 200, and still returns encrypted, padded, JSON body - but only returns {"collectionDay": null}. "'NoneType' object is not iterable" from the map() over the null.
Collection data now comes from a four-step session against iTouchVision's generic form engine at /gdsv5/:
The AES-256-CBC key and IV are unchanged and work on all four endpoints in both directions, so the existing crypto helpers are reused. P_CLIENT_ID (152) and P_COUNCIL_ID (34505) are unchanged.
Steps 2 and 3 are discovery, not overhead. Step 2 locates the form's web-service item by I_TYPE == "WEB_SERVICE_REF" instead of hardcoding its id, so a form rebuild that renumbers items does not break the scraper. Step 3 returns the name and value of every input step 4 expects, so P_INPUT_DATA is built from the service's answer, not a hardcoded "uprn".
Two details:
P_USER_ID must be absent from the getWSRResult call. The council site omits it there while sending it on the two preceding calls, and including it makes the service reject the request with "Error occurred. Please check input data".
Only REPORT_UPRN is required. The council's site also sends the full address, coordinates, USRN and LPI key, but the form's hidden field comes from the UPRN, so no personal data needs to be sent.
The service returns rendered HTML rather than structured data, so collections are read out of the returned govuk-table. I may be missing something but this is all I found. Dates arrive with no year ("Saturday 5 September"), so year has to be inferred: parse against the current year, roll forward if that's in the past, with a day of tolerance so a collection earlier today is not suddenly twelve months away.
Bin type strings now come from the council's own table, so users with an existing icon_color_mapping for Buckinghamshire will need to update it.
Verified live end-to-end against the input.json fixture UPRN (100081093078) and a second Buckinghamshire address. Full unit suite passes (244) and the live BDD test for this council passes. input.json needs no change - the existing entry already carries the right UPRN and skip_get_url.
Note for maintainers
Any other council in this repo still pointing at /kmbd/collectionDay may have the same failure — a permanently null payload hidden by a 200 response, surfacing as an unrelated-looking TypeError rather than an easily identified retired endpoint. Might be worth a grep for itouchvision across councils/. I found a few.
Load on the council's servers
Each lookup creates a form submission on the council's system, exactly as a resident using the website does. This is four requests per refresh rather than one, not a small increase! Steps 2 and 3 could maybe be folded by hardcoding the item ids, at the cost of resilience; happy to make that trade if preferred.
Tests:
make unit-tests— 244 passedpytest uk_bin_collection/tests/step_defs/ -k Buckinghamshire— passed (live)input.json needs no change — the existing entry already carries the correct UPRN and skip_get_url flag, so this is a single-file diff.
Context
Reported in the comments on #2216 (Woking), which was a different failure in a different council on a different platform. Filing this as a PR since issue creation is currently restricted on the repo.
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