improvements on asset upload refresh. Now we don't need to refresh the whole page, just insert the table tow

cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views.py

@@ -718,8 +718,18 @@ def upload_asset(request, org, course, coursename):
     #then commit the content 
     contentstore().save(content)
     del_cached_content(content.location)
+
+    # readback the saved content - we need the database timestamp
+    readback = contentstore().find(content.location)
     
-    response = HttpResponse('Upload completed')
+    response_payload = {'displayname' : content.name, 
+        'uploadDate' : get_date_display(readback.last_modified_at), 
+        'url' : StaticContent.get_url_path_from_location(content.location),
+        'thumb_url' : StaticContent.get_url_path_from_location(thumbnail_content.location) if thumbnail_content is not None else None,
+        'msg' : 'Upload completed'
+        }
+
+    response = HttpResponse(json.dumps(response_payload))
     response['asset_url'] = StaticContent.get_url_path_from_location(content.location)
     return response
 
@@ -866,6 +876,10 @@ def asset_index(request, org, course, name):
     
     course_reference = StaticContent.compute_location(org, course, name)
     assets = contentstore().get_all_content_for_course(course_reference)
+
+    # sort in reverse upload date order
+    assets = sorted(assets, key=lambda asset: asset['uploadDate'], reverse=True)
+
     thumbnails = contentstore().get_all_content_thumbnails_for_course(course_reference)
     asset_display = []
     for asset in assets:

cms/static/js/base.js

@@ -335,10 +335,21 @@ function displayFinishedUpload(xhr) {
     if(xhr.status = 200){
         markAsLoaded();
     }
+    var resp = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
     $('.upload-modal .copy-button').attr('href', xhr.getResponseHeader('asset_url'));
-    $('.upload-modal .progress-fill').html(xhr.responseText);
+    $('.upload-modal .progress-fill').html(resp.msg);
     $('.upload-modal .choose-file-button').html('Load Another File').show();
     $('.upload-modal .progress-fill').width('100%');
+
+    // see if this id already exists, if so, then user must have updated an existing piece of content
+    $("tr[data-id='" + resp.url + "']").remove();
+
+    var template = $('#new-asset-element').html();
+    var html = Mustache.to_html(template, resp);
+    $('table > tbody > tr:first').before(html);
+
+    $("tr[data-id='" + resp.url + "'] a.show-xml").toggle(showEmbeddableXML, hideEmbeddableXML);
+
 }
 
 function markAsLoaded() {
@@ -350,7 +361,6 @@ function hideModal(e) {
     e.preventDefault();
     $('.modal').hide();
     $modalCover.hide();
-    location.reload();
 }
 
 function onKeyUp(e) {

cms/templates/asset_index.html

@@ -3,8 +3,36 @@
 <%block name="bodyclass">assets</%block>
 <%block name="title">Courseware Assets</%block>
 
+<%namespace name='static' file='static_content.html'/>
+
+<%block name="jsextra">
+<script src="${static.url('js/vendor/mustache.js')}"></script>
+</%block>
+
 <%block name="content">
   
+  <script type="text/template" id="new-asset-element">
+    <tr data-id='{{url}}'>
+      <td class="thumb-col">
+        <div class="thumb">
+          {{#thumb_url}}
+          <img src="{{thumb_url}}">
+          {{/thumb_url}}
+        </div>
+      </td>
+      <td class="name-col">
+        <a href="{{url}}" class="filename">{{displayname}}</a>
+        <div class="embeddable-xml"></div>
+      </td>
+      <td class="date-col">
+        {{uploadDate}}
+      </td>
+      <td class="embed-col">
+        <a class="show-xml" href="{{url}}">XML</a>
+      </td>
+    </tr>
+  </script>
+
   <div class="main-wrapper">
     <div class="inner-wrapper">
       <h1>Asset Library</h1>
@@ -22,9 +50,9 @@
               <th class="embed-col">Embed</th>
             </tr>
           </thead>
-          <tbody>
+          <tbody id="asset_table_body">
           % for asset in assets:
-            <tr>
+            <tr data-id="${asset['url']}">
               <td class="thumb-col">
                 <div class="thumb">
                   % if asset['thumb_url'] is not None: