Attempt to fix DeletionWatcher sockets

Charcoal-SE · Apr 24, 2018 · 2a0232e · 2a0232e
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diff --git a/deletionwatcher.py b/deletionwatcher.py
@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@ class DeletionWatcher:
     def __init__(self):
         DeletionWatcher.update_site_id_list()
 
-        self.socket = websocket.create_connection("wss://qa.sockets.stackexchange.com/")
+        try:
+            self.socket = websocket.create_connection("wss://qa.sockets.stackexchange.com/")
+        except:
+            log('error', 'DeletionWatcher failed to create a websocket connection')
+
         self.posts = {}
 
         if os.path.exists("deletionIDs.p"):

diff --git a/ws.py b/ws.py
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@
 
 # We need an instance of bodyfetcher before load_files() is called
 GlobalVars.bodyfetcher = BodyFetcher()
-GlobalVars.deletion_watcher = DeletionWatcher()
 
 load_files()
 filter_auto_ignored_posts()
@@ -109,6 +108,7 @@
                              ")"
 
 GlobalVars.standby_mode = "standby" in sys.argv
+GlobalVars.deletion_watcher = DeletionWatcher()
 
 chatcommunicate.init(username, password)
 Tasks.periodic(Metasmoke.send_status_ping, interval=60)