Create forums config model for adjusting connection timeouts.

common/djangoapps/django_comment_common/admin.py

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+"""
+Admin for managing the connection to the Forums backend service.
+"""
+from django.contrib import admin
+
+from .models import ForumsConfig
+
+
+admin.site.register(ForumsConfig)

common/djangoapps/django_comment_common/migrations/0002_forumsconfig.py

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+import django.db.models.deletion
+from django.conf import settings
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        migrations.swappable_dependency(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL),
+        ('django_comment_common', '0001_initial'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='ForumsConfig',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.AutoField(verbose_name='ID', serialize=False, auto_created=True, primary_key=True)),
+                ('change_date', models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, verbose_name='Change date')),
+                ('enabled', models.BooleanField(default=False, verbose_name='Enabled')),
+                ('connection_timeout', models.FloatField(default=5.0)),
+                ('changed_by', models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.PROTECT, editable=False, to=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, null=True, verbose_name='Changed by')),
+            ],
+            options={
+                'ordering': ('-change_date',),
+                'abstract': False,
+            },
+        ),
+    ]

common/djangoapps/django_comment_common/models.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from django.dispatch import receiver
 from django.db.models.signals import post_save
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_noop
 
+from config_models.models import ConfigurationModel
 from student.models import CourseEnrollment
 
 from xmodule.modulestore.django import modulestore
@@ -137,3 +138,14 @@ def all_permissions_for_user_in_course(user, course_id):  # pylint: disable=inva
         if not permission_blacked_out(course, all_roles, permission.name)
     }
     return permissions
+
+
+class ForumsConfig(ConfigurationModel):
+    """Config for the connection to the cs_comments_service forums backend."""
+
+    # For now, just tweak the connection timeout settings. We can add more later.
+    connection_timeout = models.FloatField(default=5.0)
+
+    def __unicode__(self):
+        """Simple representation so the admin screen looks less ugly."""
+        return u"ForumsConfig: timeout={}".format(self.connection_timeout)

lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/base/tests.py

@@ -372,8 +372,8 @@ class ViewsQueryCountTestCase(UrlResetMixin, ModuleStoreTestCase, MockRequestSet
         return inner
 
     @ddt.data(
-        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.mongo, 3, 4, 29),
-        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.split, 3, 13, 29),
+        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.mongo, 3, 4, 30),
+        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.split, 3, 13, 30),
     )
     @ddt.unpack
     @count_queries
@@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ class ViewsQueryCountTestCase(UrlResetMixin, ModuleStoreTestCase, MockRequestSet
         self.create_thread_helper(mock_request)
 
     @ddt.data(
-        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.mongo, 3, 3, 23),
-        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.split, 3, 10, 23),
+        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.mongo, 3, 3, 24),
+        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.split, 3, 10, 24),
     )
     @ddt.unpack
     @count_queries

lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/forum/tests.py

@@ -342,11 +342,11 @@ class SingleThreadQueryCountTestCase(ModuleStoreTestCase):
 
     @ddt.data(
         # old mongo with cache
-        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.mongo, 1, 6, 4, 16, 8),
-        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.mongo, 50, 6, 4, 16, 8),
+        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.mongo, 1, 6, 4, 18, 10),
+        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.mongo, 50, 6, 4, 18, 10),
         # split mongo: 3 queries, regardless of thread response size.
-        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.split, 1, 3, 3, 16, 8),
-        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.split, 50, 3, 3, 16, 8),
+        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.split, 1, 3, 3, 18, 10),
+        (ModuleStoreEnum.Type.split, 50, 3, 3, 18, 10),
     )
     @ddt.unpack
     def test_number_of_mongo_queries(

lms/lib/comment_client/utils.py

@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ def request_timer(request_id, method, url, tags=None):
 
 def perform_request(method, url, data_or_params=None, raw=False,
                     metric_action=None, metric_tags=None, paged_results=False):
+    # To avoid dependency conflict
+    from django_comment_common.models import ForumsConfig
 
     if metric_tags is None:
         metric_tags = []
@@ -77,13 +79,14 @@ def perform_request(method, url, data_or_params=None, raw=False,
         data = None
         params = merge_dict(data_or_params, request_id_dict)
     with request_timer(request_id, method, url, metric_tags):
+        config = ForumsConfig.current()
         response = requests.request(
             method,
             url,
             data=data,
             params=params,
             headers=headers,
-            timeout=5
+            timeout=config.connection_timeout
         )
 
     metric_tags.append(u'status_code:{}'.format(response.status_code))