A "section" tag in an OLX upload used to map to the
SemanticSectionDescriptor, which translated it into a Sequence
("sequential" tag). This is both obscure and confusing, since it uses
language that predates Studio. Back in the LMS prototype days,
"section" was inconsistently used to be interchangeable with "sequence"
and "sequential", and what Studio today calls a "section" was called a
"chapter". Bits of this legacy terminology are still around in the
courseware rendering code.
The upshot is that if you make an OLX tag "section" before this commit,
it would not map to what we call a "Section" in all our documentation,
but to a "Subsection"; furthermore, if that <section> only had one child
element, the node would be replaced with its singular child, removing
the <section> node from the course tree entirely.
The fact that you can make a "section" OLX tag
at all is nowhere in our documentation because courses haven't been
written that way since late 2011 or early 2012.
SemanticSectionDescriptor came up as part of the XModule ->
XBlock conversion efforts as a legacy XModule that isn't worth
converting. With the removal of this class, all XBlocks
in edx-platform are "pure" XBlocks, ending our reliance
on the XModule-to-XBlock shimming infrastructure.
This commit also removes the process_includes decorator, which was only
used for "section" tags. This does NOT delete the ProblemBlock-specific
<include> tag, which is still supported (if obscure).
There is a chance that through tribal knowledge or copy-paste, some
section tags survive in the wild of old edX courses. It's difficult for
us to assess because by its nature, this tag doesn't just say
"section", but instead actually does the mutation on import so it's
stored as "sequential" in the modulestore–therefore things like
CourseGraph can't detect it.
The fix for any such XML-authored courses is:
* For instances of <section> that wrap a single child node,
replace the <section> node in favor of its child node.
* For instances of <section> that wrap a sequence of children,
substitute <section> with <sequential>
Note that "<section>" is a valid HTML tag
type and so may show up in any component that can contain HTML and is
unrelated to the course structure OLX tag alias "<section>" that this
commit removes.
DEPR-124
* fix: six was being used without being imported
Removed usage of the python library six from module. This is fixing an error where the python library six is used in a module without being imported. Multiple PRs merging around same time caused this conflict.
The Learning MFE had a bug where instructors selecting
'View As: Audit' would find themselves redirected to the
'Enroll Now' page. This was because the Courseware API,
which powers the MFE, checked courseware access *after*
setting up masquerading--so, instead of checking whether
the instructor had access to view the course, we checked
whether some arbitrary un-enrolled learner would have
access to the course (the answer is generally No).
We fix this by doing what the Legacy courseware index
does: calculate courseware access *before* setting up
masquerading.
TNL-7989
In https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/25955 `HiddenDescriptor`
(which was a subclass of `RawDescriptor` with a custom `student_view()`)
was converted to an XBlock. It is used as the `default_class` by the
`CachingDescriptorSystem` classes. However `RawDescriptor` is still
being used by `XMLModuleStore`. This has been replaced by
`HiddenDescriptor` as well.
The Studio UI prevents you from creating a Section or Subsection
with no title (display_name). But OLX import allows you to bypass
these checks and create Sections ("chapter" tag) and Subsections
("sequential" tag) without display_name information specified in
the XML. When this happens, Studio and the LMS fall back to using
the url_name (the last part of the UsageKey) as a title, using the
display_name_with_default method.
This usually works, because url_names are derived from the import
file name, and if you're hand-editing a course in XML, your file
names are probably more intelligible than Mongo object IDs. In any
case, this commit updates get_outline_from_modulestore to match the
behavior of Studio and the LMS with respect to this situation.
This is part of the course outlines backfill rollout. TNL-8056
Reverts #26731
The code in common/lib/capa/capa/safe_exec needs
to remain Python 3.5-compatible, since edx-sandbox
(ie codejail) is still running Python 3.5.
