reduce logging and send HTTP 202 early rather than expecting the caller to wait

backend/src/import-from-ss.js

@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ const getContract = (name) => new ethers.Contract(
 
 const fetchPaperInfo = async (paperId, retryDelay = 5000) => {
   const url = `https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/${paperId}?fields=title,url,authors,references`;
-  console.log('url:', url);
   let retry = false;
   let paper;
   const response = await axios.get(url, {
@@ -120,9 +119,6 @@ HREF ${paper.url}`;
     contentToSign += `\n\n${JSON.stringify(embeddedData, null, 2)}`;
   }
   const signature = firstAuthorWallet.signMessageSync(contentToSign);
-  console.log({
-    authors, content, signature, embeddedData,
-  });
   const verified = verifySignature({
     authors, content, signature, embeddedData,
   });
@@ -149,6 +145,10 @@ module.exports = async (req, res) => {
 
   // Read the paper info from SS
   const paper = await fetchPaperInfo(paperId);
+
+  // Send HTTP code 202 - Accepted
+  res.status(202).end();
+
   console.log('references count:', paper.references.length);
 
   const eachCitationWeightPercent = Math.floor(30 / paper.references.length);
@@ -176,19 +176,21 @@ module.exports = async (req, res) => {
     hash, authors, content, signature, embeddedData,
   } = await generatePost(paper);
 
-  console.log({
-    hash, authors, content, signature, embeddedData, citations,
-  });
-
   // Write the new post to our database
   await forum.put(hash, {
     authors, content, signature, embeddedData, citations,
   });
 
   // Add the post to the form (on-chain)
-  await dao.addPost(authors, hash, citations);
+  try {
+    await dao.addPost(authors, hash, citations);
+  } catch (e) {
+    if (e.reason === 'A post with this contentId already exists') {
+      console.log(`Post already added for paper ${paperId}`);
+      return;
+    }
+    throw e;
+  }
 
   console.log(`Added post to blockchain for paper ${paperId}`);
-
-  res.end();
 };

backend/src/verify-signature.js

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ const verifySignature = ({
   }
   try {
     const account = recoverPersonalSignature({ data: contentToVerify, signature });
-    console.log(`recovered account: ${account}`);
     const authorAddresses = authors.map((author) => author.authorAddress.toLowerCase());
     if (!authorAddresses.includes(account.toLowerCase())) {
       console.log('error: signer is not among the authors');