From 05bdf1985e872ce0514f8c66cc91efa39405570a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:09:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: lazy-import write_notification to prevent partial module
 load in tests

Co-authored-by: jokob-sk <96159884+jokob-sk@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .dockerignore                          | 5 ++++-
 server/models/notification_instance.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index 8b4efda47..dc89bfcd8 100755
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -12,4 +12,7 @@ README.md
 CONTRIBUTING
 FUNDING.yml
 config/.gitignore
-db/.gitignore
\ No newline at end of file
+db/.gitignore
+**/__pycache__
+**/*.pyc
+**/*.pyo
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/server/models/notification_instance.py b/server/models/notification_instance.py
index 45327659f..0c9fbf5e8 100755
--- a/server/models/notification_instance.py
+++ b/server/models/notification_instance.py
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ from helper import (
     get_setting_value,
     getBuildTimeStampAndVersion,
 )
-from messaging.in_app import write_notification
 from messaging.notification_sections import SECTION_ORDER
 from utils.datetime_utils import timeNowUTC, timeNowTZ, get_timezone_offset
 
@@ -162,6 +161,7 @@ class NotificationInstance:
             self.HTML = final_html
 
             # Notify frontend
+            from messaging.in_app import write_notification  # lazy import to avoid Flask dep at module level
             write_notification(f"Report:{self.GUID}", "alert", self.DateTimeCreated)
 
             self.upsert()