Originally, Blockstore was an independent micro-service, accessed via a REST API.
Then, we changed Blockstore so it could be installed as an in-process Django app.
To support both modes, there existed a blockstore_api wrapper library in edx-platform,
with toggles controlling whether the wrapper called out to the micro-service's REST API versus the
Django app's Python API. Now that the micro-service Blockstore implementation is deprecated,
though, this wrapper library and toggles are just unnecessary complexity.
As a first step towards cleanup, we:
* remove several toggles and settings (details below);
* remove the blocokstore_api wrapper methods which called the REST API and
marshalled them back into Python objects; and
* remove all test cases which relied on the Blockstore micro-service (and were skippped in CI).
In the future, we will remove the content libraries indexer,
clean up the remaining bits of blockstore_api, and flatten out all
the Blockstore-related test class hierarchies which are no longer nceessary.
BREAKING CHANGE:
* These Django settings are removed:
* BLOCKSTORE_PUBLIC_URL_ROOT
* BLOCKSTORE_API_URL
* BLOCKSTORE_API_AUTH_TOKEN
* BLOCKSTORE_USE_BLOCKSTORE_APP_API
* The blockstore.use_blockstore_app_api Waffle switch is removed.
* edx-platform will act as it did when the DJango setting BLOCKSTORE_USE_BLOCKSTORE_APP_API
or the Waffle switch blockstore.use_blockstore_app_api were enabled. That is, any running Blockstore
micro-service instance will be ignored, and the Blockstore package which is installed into edx-platform
will be used instead.
Ref: https://github.com/openedx/blockstore/issues/296
* Update location in devstack-experimental to fix issue while re-indexing
* Updated the devstack.py to point to edx.devstack.elasticsearch710 host
* Enabed the ENABLE_COURSEWARE_INDEX and ENABLE_COURSEWARE_SEARCH
Call into the exam service instead of the edx-proctoring plugin on course publish if the course_apps.exams_ida course waffle flag is enabled. This is an early step in moving away from edx-proctoring
edx-platform supports COMPREHENSIVE_THEME_LOCALE_PATHS setting, which
appends paths to the end of LOCALE_PATHS, but there's currently no
way to add additional paths to the start of the list.
https://tasks.opencraft.com/browse/SE-5299
This commits prepares edx-platform's experimental Dockerfile
for optional use in devstack. Presently, the image built by this
Dockerfile isn't used anywhere.
Notable changes:
* Drop the openedx/edx-platform image name in favor of
openedx/lms and openedx/cms.
* Drop the newrelic stages and tags.
* Create openedx/lms-dev and openedx/cms-dev image
variants which use Django devserver, install dev
requirements, and specify devstack Django settings.
* Add config files at (lms,cms)/envs/devstack-experimental.yml,
extracted from the existing edxapp docker image.
* Adds three new scripts, each of which replaces an Ansible
or Paver-supported function with a pure bash + Django
management command implementation.
