The existing pattern of using `override_settings(MODULESTORE=...)` prevented
us from having more than one layer of subclassing in modulestore tests.
In a structure like:
@override_settings(MODULESTORE=store_a)
class BaseTestCase(ModuleStoreTestCase):
def setUp(self):
# use store
@override_settings(MODULESTORE=store_b)
class ChildTestCase(BaseTestCase):
def setUp(self):
# use store
In this case, the store actions performed in `BaseTestCase` on behalf of
`ChildTestCase` would still use `store_a`, even though the `ChildTestCase`
had specified to use `store_b`. This is because the `override_settings`
decorator would be the innermost wrapper around the `BaseTestCase.setUp` method,
no matter what `ChildTestCase` does.
To remedy this, we move the call to `override_settings` into the
`ModuleStoreTestCase.setUp` method, and use a cleanup to remove the override.
Subclasses can just defined the `MODULESTORE` class attribute to specify which
modulestore to use _for the entire `setUp` chain_.
[PLAT-419]
Move modulestore config for tests to an importable location
Disable pylnt warning for lms imports in common tests
Refactor all testcases that loaded all xml courses
TE-610
TE-489
This commit adds the non-courseware lms/djangoapps and lms/lib.
These keys are now objects with a limited interface, and the particular
internal representation is managed by the data storage layer (the
modulestore).
For the LMS, there should be no outward-facing changes to the system.
The keys are, for now, a change to internal representation only. For
Studio, the new serialized form of the keys is used in urls, to allow
for further migration in the future.
Co-Author: Andy Armstrong <andya@edx.org>
Co-Author: Christina Roberts <christina@edx.org>
Co-Author: David Baumgold <db@edx.org>
Co-Author: Diana Huang <dkh@edx.org>
Co-Author: Don Mitchell <dmitchell@edx.org>
Co-Author: Julia Hansbrough <julia@edx.org>
Co-Author: Nimisha Asthagiri <nasthagiri@edx.org>
Co-Author: Sarina Canelake <sarina@edx.org>
[LMS-2370]
This code adds the ability to add Mako template lookup directories on
the fly, allowing third party add-ons to contribute their own Mako templates.
A new API function for registering Mako templates is introduced::
from edxmako import add_lookup
add_lookup('main', '/path/to/templates')
# Or, specify a package to lookup using pkg_resources. This will
# add the 'templates' directory inside the current package:
add_lookup('main', 'templates', package=__name__)
The motivation for this change is performance. The forums UI code gets
the list of users for each role and renders the staff label based on
those lists. The list for the staff role is expensive to compute because
there is no index on the is_staff attribute, and we cannot create one
because the User model is built into django.
Users with is_staff=True are still assigned the Moderator role upon
enrolling in a course, so this change will have no practical effect
except that a user who is granted staff privileges after enrolling in a
course will have to be made a Moderator in order for their posts to be
labeled.
Additionally, the UI did not use the list of users with the Student
role, so that list has been removed as well.
Avoid recomputing course module information for every thread, which
should dramatically improve the performance of high-percentile latency
queries.
JIRA: FOR-250
The _DISCUSSIONINFO global was originally used as a cache, but has since
lost that capability and is therefore just harmful. This is a precursor
to more refactoring that will improve the performance of the forums and
may itself provide some performance improvement because it separates the
computation done by two functions that each previously computed the
entirety of _DISCUSSIONINFO.
