Handle connection errors in cache?

[bganglia]

Failed requests should not be saved.

A report should be generated with the DOIs that have led to failed requests.

This was raised as part of the discussion in issue #12

[bganglia]

@naustica Could you talk a little bit more about what you mean by a report?

[naustica]

something like: Report

Out of seven dois, two were invalid.

doi	error
10.3253/dga.dsfs	Unpaywall response
10.214134/afsaf	Timeout...

Or do you have a better idea?

[naustica]

ok, the table has just been converted to markdown. Imagine that as a plain python table

[bganglia]

Ok. Right now dois are requested one-by-one, so I guess it would make sense to add a function that takes in a list of dois and then prints this report to the console, if the console is the best place.

[bganglia]

@naustica What do you think about just a warning?

[naustica]

@bganglia I dont know. I associate warnings with internal problems. But this is more of an external one. Or? But we can do that.

[bganglia]

@naustica Now that I think about it, a report would probably be easier to read anyway. Printing out a report sounds good to me.

[naustica]

@bganglia Python provides also the tempfile module (https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/tempfile.html) which creates a temporary file that we could use to store dois from faulty connections. So we can create a temporary txt file that the user has access to. The tempfile would only exist for one session (I think) which is also nice.