Use user-benefits API to work out newspaper archive entitlement #1425
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What does this PR change?
Up until now we have been checking members-data-api to see whether a user is eligible for newspaper archive access. This was problematic because the only way we could deduce whether a user was entitled or not was if they had both the
supporterPlus
andguardianWeeklySubscriber
flag set, however this is not actually the same as being subscribed to tier three.This PR replaces the call to mdapi with a call to the new user-benefits API which has been built to centralise the logic around which users are entitled to which benefits.
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