Feature/appeals 32900 - Draft Correspondence Queue

[HunJerBAH]

Resolves Jira Issue Title

Description

Please explain the changes you made here.

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] Code compiles correctly

Testing Plan

1. Go to Jira Issue/Test Plan Link or list them below

• [ ] For feature branches merging into master: Was this deployed to UAT?

Frontend

User Facing Changes

• [ ] Screenshots of UI changes added to PR & Original Issue

BEFORE	AFTER

Storybook Story

For Frontend (Presentation) Components

• [ ] Add a Storybook file alongside the component file (e.g. create MyComponent.stories.js alongside MyComponent.jsx)
• [ ] Give it a title that reflects the component's location within the overall Caseflow hierarchy
• [ ] Write a separate story (within the same file) for each discrete variation of the component

Backend

Database Changes

Only for Schema Changes

• [ ] Add typical timestamps (created_at, updated_at) for new tables
• [ ] Update column comments; include a "PII" prefix to indicate definite or potential PII data content
• [ ] Have your migration classes inherit from Caseflow::Migration, especially when adding indexes (use add_safe_index) (see Writing DB migrations)
• [ ] Verify that migrate:rollback works as desired (change supported functions)
• [ ] Perform query profiling (eyeball Rails log, check bullet and fasterer output)
• [ ] For queries using raw sql was an explain plan run by System Team
• [ ] Add appropriate indexes (especially for foreign keys, polymorphic columns, unique constraints, and Rails scopes)
• [ ] Run make check-fks; add any missing foreign keys or add to config/initializers/immigrant.rb (see Record associations and Foreign Keys)
• [ ] Add belongs_to for associations to enable the schema diagrams to be automatically updated
• [ ] Document any non-obvious semantics or logic useful for interpreting database data at Caseflow Data Model and Dictionary

Integrations: Adding endpoints for external APIs

• [ ] Check that Caseflow's external API code for the endpoint matches the code in the relevant integration repo
  • [ ] Request: Service name, method name, input field names
  • [ ] Response: Check expected data structure
  • [ ] Check that calls are wrapped in MetricService record block
• [ ] Check that all configuration is coming from ENV variables
  • [ ] Listed all new ENV variables in description
  • [ ] Worked with or notified System Team that new ENV variables need to be set
• [ ] Update Fakes
• [ ] For feature branches: Was this tested in Caseflow UAT

Best practices

Code Documentation Updates

• [ ] Add or update code comments at the top of the class, module, and/or component.

Tests

Test Coverage

Did you include any test coverage for your code? Check below:

• [ ] RSpec
• [ ] Jest
• [ ] Other

Code Climate

Your code does not add any new code climate offenses? If so why?

• [ ] No new code climate issues added

Monitoring, Logging, Auditing, Error, and Exception Handling Checklist

Monitoring

• [ ] Are performance metrics (e.g., response time, throughput) being tracked?
• [ ] Are key application components monitored (e.g., database, cache, queues)?
• [ ] Is there a system in place for setting up alerts based on performance thresholds?

Logging

• [ ] Are logs being produced at appropriate log levels (debug, info, warn, error, fatal)?
• [ ] Are logs structured (e.g., using log tags) for easier querying and analysis?
• [ ] Are sensitive data (e.g., passwords, tokens) redacted or omitted from logs?
• [ ] Is log retention and rotation configured correctly?
• [ ] Are logs being forwarded to a centralized logging system if needed?

Auditing

• [ ] Are user actions being logged for audit purposes?
• [ ] Are changes to critical data being tracked ?
• [ ] Are logs being securely stored and protected from tampering or exposing protected data?

Error Handling

• [ ] Are errors being caught and handled gracefully?
• [ ] Are appropriate error messages being displayed to users?
• [ ] Are critical errors being reported to an error tracking system (e.g., Sentry, ELK)?
• [ ] Are unhandled exceptions being caught at the application level ?

Exception Handling

• [ ] Are custom exceptions defined and used where appropriate?
• [ ] Is exception handling consistent throughout the codebase?
• [ ] Are exceptions logged with relevant context and stack trace information?
• [ ] Are exceptions being grouped and categorized for easier analysis and resolution?

[codeclimate[bot]]

Code Climate has analyzed commit cda00acc and detected 32 issues on this pull request.

Here's the issue category breakdown:

Category	Count
Duplication	16
Security	1
Complexity	4
Style	7
Bug Risk	2
Performance	2

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