Limiting depth of comments

lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/base/views.py

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import functools
 
 import comment_client as cc
 import django_comment_client.utils as utils
+import django_comment_client.settings as cc_settings
+
 
 from django.core import exceptions
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
@@ -15,7 +17,6 @@ from django.views.decorators.http import require_POST, require_GET
 from django.views.decorators import csrf
 from django.core.files.storage import get_storage_class
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
-from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 
 from mitxmako.shortcuts import render_to_response, render_to_string
@@ -114,6 +115,9 @@ def _create_comment(request, course_id, thread_id=None, parent_id=None):
 @login_required
 @permitted
 def create_comment(request, course_id, thread_id):
+    if cc_settings.MAX_COMMENT_DEPTH is not None:
+        if cc_settings.MAX_COMMENT_DEPTH < 0:
+            return JsonError("Comment level too deep")
     return _create_comment(request, course_id, thread_id=thread_id)
 
 @require_POST
@@ -158,6 +162,9 @@ def openclose_thread(request, course_id, thread_id):
 @login_required
 @permitted
 def create_sub_comment(request, course_id, comment_id):
+    if cc_settings.MAX_COMMENT_DEPTH is not None:
+        if cc_settings.MAX_COMMENT_DEPTH <= cc.Comment.find(comment_id).depth:
+            return JsonError("Comment level too deep")
     return _create_comment(request, course_id, parent_id=comment_id)
 
 @require_POST

lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/helpers.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 from functools import partial
 
 from utils import *
+import django_comment_client.settings as cc_settings
 
 import pystache_custom as pystache
 import urllib
@@ -39,6 +40,13 @@ def render_content(content, additional_context={}):
         'content': extend_content(content),
         content['type']: True,
     }
+    if cc_settings.MAX_COMMENT_DEPTH is not None:
+        if content['type'] == 'thread':
+            if cc_settings.MAX_COMMENT_DEPTH < 0:
+                context['max_depth'] = True
+        elif content['type'] == 'comment':
+            if cc_settings.MAX_COMMENT_DEPTH <= content['depth']:
+                context['max_depth'] = True
     context = merge_dict(context, additional_context)
     partial_mustache_helpers = {k: partial(v, content) for k, v in mustache_helpers.items()}
     context = merge_dict(context, partial_mustache_helpers)

lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/utils.py

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import pystache_custom as pystache
 _FULLMODULES = None
 _DISCUSSIONINFO = None
 
+
+
 def extract(dic, keys):
     return {k: dic.get(k) for k in keys}
 

lms/envs/common.py

@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ ASKBOT_ENABLED = False
 GENERATE_RANDOM_USER_CREDENTIALS = False
 PERFSTATS = False
 
+DISCUSSION_SETTINGS = {
+    'MAX_COMMENT_DEPTH': 2,
+}
+
 # Features
 MITX_FEATURES = {
     'SAMPLE' : False,

lms/templates/discussion/mustache/_content.mustache

@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@
             {{/thread}}
           </div>
           <ul class="discussion-actions">
-            <li><a class="discussion-link discussion-reply discussion-reply-{{content.type}}" href="javascript:void(0)">Reply</a></li>
+            {{^max_depth}}
+              <li><a class="discussion-link discussion-reply discussion-reply-{{content.type}}" href="javascript:void(0)">Reply</a></li>
+            {{/max_depth}}
             {{#thread}}
               <li><div class="follow-wrapper"><a class="discussion-link discussion-follow-thread" href="javascript:void(0)">Follow</a></div></li>
             {{/thread}}