findings
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Service layer with proper separation of concerns. Each service handles a specific domain:
- Email Service (
email.service.ts
): Email communication and template formatting - Notion Service (
notion.service.ts
): Notion API integration for database and file operations - OpenAI Service (
openai.service.ts
): AI/ML processing and analysis
Services should:
- ✅ Have a single responsibility
- ✅ Be reusable across different controllers
- ✅ Handle their own error cases gracefully
- ✅ Return consistent response formats
- ❌ Not call controllers or handlers directly
- ❌ Not mix presentation logic with business logic
Purpose: Centralized email communication with template management
Key Functions:
sendProcessingAcknowledgment()
- Immediate user feedbacksendProcessingCompletion()
- Final status notificationsendProcessingError()
- Error notifications
Features:
- Text and HTML email templates
- Consistent styling and branding
- Graceful error handling (email failures don't break processing)
Purpose: Notion API integration for database queries and page updates
Key Functions:
- Generic functions:
updatePageProperties()
for any property updates - Content management: Page content creation, updates, and deletion
- Database operations: Query databases and retrieve pages
- File Upload API: 3-step file upload process implementation
createNotionFileUpload()
- Step 1: Create upload objectuploadFileToNotionUrl()
- Step 2: Upload file contents via FormDataattachFileUploadToPage()
- Step 3: Attach file to page with "file_upload" type
Purpose: OpenAI API integration with two-stage consensus analysis
Key Functions:
- Stage 1: Individual transcript analysis using
gpt-4o-mini
for cost efficiency - Stage 2: Consensus synthesis using
gpt-4o
for high-quality reasoning
Features:
- Structured JSON output, confidence scoring, disagreement tracking, evidence tables
- Configurable parallel processing with rate limiting
- Graceful error handling with fallback consensus calculation
import { sendProcessingAcknowledgment } from "../services/email.service.ts";
await sendProcessingAcknowledgment({
originalEmail: email,
processingId: "abc123",
pdfCount: 5
});
Use /test-async-email-processing?email=your@email.com&count=3
to test the complete workflow.