Should WebhooksController extend ApplicationController?

[ryanwood]

I have a situation where I need to handle a particular email API error across all webhook processing.

I attempted to rescue_from to my ApplicationController but my specs weren't showing that the error was handled. I then realized that StripeEvent::WebhooksController extends ActionController::Base rather than ApplicationController. I realize that ApplicationController is a Rails 5.0+ feature whereas using ActionController::Base works for everyone.

These are the options I could think of to accomplish my goal:

1. Have StripeEvent::WebhooksController extend ApplicationController (patch the gem)
2. I tried to create my own WebhooksController which extended StripeEvent::WebhooksController. Then I updated the routes to just point to webhooks#event but I ended up with a RuntimeError: Circular dependency detected while autoloading constant WebhooksController error. :(
3. The last option I'm aware of is to copy the StripeEvent::WebhooksController into a controller that I manage. That sounds horrible as I'd have to manually keep that controller in sync.

Ideally, if you didn't want to change to use ApplicationController you could take an approach similar to Devise and allow the setting of the parent controller via the config.

class DeviseController < Devise.parent_controller.constantize

https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/be15116426ef8f43ee07686bcacdbe41a213e7fe/app/controllers/devise_controller.rb#L4
https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/962cea2039c72a92691af734ebbd8495dd5c0501/lib/devise.rb#L230-L234

I'm certainly open if there is another simpler way to accomplish this. Thanks.

[rromanchuk]

@ryanwood went down this same route but this is not an area i want to be monkey patching, what did you end up doing?

I'm just trying to add missing context back into logs

# app/controllers/application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  def append_info_to_payload(payload)
    super
    payload[:service] = :stripe
   # ...truncated
  end
end