This commit introduces the changes needed for XBlocks in Blockstore to save
their user state into CSM. Before this commit, all student state for Blockstore
blocks was ephemeral (in-process dict store).
Notes:
* The main risk factor of this PR is that it adds non-course keys to the
course_id field in CSM. If any code (like analytics?) reads course keys
directly out of CSM and doesn't have graceful handling for key types it
doesn't recognize, it could cause an issue. With the included changes to
opaque-keys, calling CourseKey.from_string(...) on these values will raise
InvalidKeyError since they're not CourseKeys. (But calling
LearningContextKey.from_string(...) will work for both course and library
keys.)
* This commit introduces a slight regression for the Studio view of XBlocks in
Blockstore content libraries: their state is now lost from request to request.
I have a follow up PR to give them a proper studio-appropriate state store,
but I want to review it separately so it doesn't hold up this PR and we can
test this PR on its own.
We are currently running this plugin from a has directly off of master
to get support for a newer version of DJDT. However even on master
there is not yet support for python 3. We're running into this when
running runserver and when collecting static assets.
A quick survey of the development team at edX shows that people are no
longer actively using this debug panel.(14 responders all saying no to
the question "In the last year have you used the mongo portion of the
django-debug-toolbar in edx-platform?")
This makes sense since the module store and courseware related
developement is not very active right now. Given all this, I'm removing
this toolbar for now and if we need it again we can survey what's
available at that time to choose the best tool.
The proctoring app assumes that this setting exists and so we get an
attribute error at runtime if it doesn't. In python 2 this was not an
issue but because of the change in how exceptions are handle for getting
attributes, it's a problem in python 3.
The correct thing to do would be to fix this in the proctoring app so
that it checks for the existence of its value before using it but that's
a longer cycle to make/deploy that change so doing this as a stopgap to
get past it.
ENABLE_MKTG_SITE has been serving double duty to both indicate that
an Open edX installation is using a Drupal marketing site AND
is using the Publisher workflow tool for managing course metadata.
But now that publisher-frontend is available and the Publisher
feature is no longer tied to the marketing site, we want to tease
apart those two concerns. Hence ENABLE_PUBLISHER.
Only really used so far in Studio, to control which fields are
shown (if using Publisher, some fields are only editable in
Publisher).
- The fields need to be unicode not bytes. In python 2 it was auto
converting.
- The static url base has been allowed to be a unicode string for a
while.
https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/20645
This introduces:
* A new XBlock runtime that can read and write XBlocks that are persisted using
Blockstore instead of Modulestore. The new runtime is currently isolated so
that it can be tested without risk to the current courseware/runtime.
* Content Libraries v2, which store XBlocks in Blockstore not modulestore
* An API Client for Blockstore
* "Learning Context" plugin API. A learning context is a more abstract concept
than a course; it's a collection of XBlocks that serves some learning purpose.
* Update Financial Assistance logic
Use the zendesk proxy app instead of the unsupported zendesk library.
* Move to pre-fetching the group IDs.
Rather than making extra requests to zendesk to list all groups and find
a specific group ID. Just make a pre-filled list of group IDs for the
groups we care about. When a group name is passed in, it is checked
against this list and the ticket is created in the correct group so the
right people can respond to it.
* New system_wide_roles app added in openedx/core/djangoapps
* Added SystemWideRole and SystemWideRoleAssignment classes to govern
non-enterprise system wide roles
PROD-424
