These changes were initially made to make it easier to do SECRET_KEY rotations. Along the way, we found it made sense to refractor the code as well.
Changes made:
- changed get_to_create to create because now the code should only get to this block when a write is necessary
- added a lookup for anonymous_user_id. This is to return an existing anonymous_user_id rather than calculating. This will mitigate the results of SECRET_KEY rotation.
- Added monitoring to help us make better decisions: should we not sue SECRET_KEY, performance considerations...
- put old function behind toggle in case something goes wrong in production with new code
- refractoring function structure for better understanding
We upgrade edx-lint to use the latest feature toggle and annotation custom
linter. Note that we do not yet make use of code annotation linting, typically
run with `code_annotations --lint ...`.
Note that we also fix new linting errors detected by the new checkers.
Deprecated edx-platform import paths
(for example, `student` instead of
`common.djangoapps.student`) currently raise
warnings when used. We want to fully remove
support for those paths.
As an easily reversible way to initially remove
support, we add a new setting to LMS and Studio
called `ERROR_ON_DEPRECATED_EDX_PLATFORM_IMPORTS`,
defaulting to False. We set it to True for devstack
and will set it to True in Stage and Production
soon. If critical errors occur, we can easily
flip the setting back to False.
This PR lays the groundwork for a an LTI tab that can embed any LTI1.1-based
tool as an course tab. It also adds another tab based on this LTI Tab that
offers special support for embedding LTI-based discussion tools in a course
tab. If enabled this will replace the existing discussion tab.
There is certain gating logic around pre-reqs, timed exams, etc.
that happen at the SequenceModule level, and should be respected
when rendering descendant XBlocks (like individual problems) that
are in that Sequence. Rather than do a risky refactoring, I'm
keeping that logic where it is and having the render_xblock view
climb up through the ancestor list to call the SequenceModule for
that gating information.
We do _not_ check all descendants (so cousin leaf nodes in the
sequence) for cotent-type-based restrictions because sequences can
become very large (esp. when content libraries are used), and there
is a performance overhead.
If the enclosing sequence is gated in some way, we redirect to the
render_xblock view for that sequence, where hopefully some useful
messaging will be available. This is a stopgap. That redirect
should never happen because we should never be calling the leaf
XBlock for a sequence that is restricted in the MFE. But if somehow
we get there anyway, either by bug or by intrepid user fiddling,
it's better to redirect somewhere that an error _might_ be surfaced
rather than just failing.
This will actually be a little overzealous and lock things down
that should be made visible later. If there's a timed exam and the
exam is completed, it should be the case that content is visible
(just read-only). This commit will block the content before the exam
starts (this is right), open the content while the exam is live
(this is right), but make the content unavailable after the exam
period has finished (this is wrong).
But I am going to go forward with this even knowing it's wrong
because:
1. The render_xblock endpoint should never currently be used in
timed exams in an intentional way. Neither the mobile experience
nor the courseware MFE support it.
2. This fix will address security concerns for creative access
patterns, even if it goes too far.
3. We're going to need to do a lot of work to address both pluggable
access permissions handling and special exams in the courseware
MFE, and a better implementation can be done then.
4. I've had multiple failed attempts to get this to work without
breaking things on and off over the course of weeks, and this
is a relatively low risk way of doing it that doesn't involve
a major refactoring (though the bill for that will come due
when we bring timed exams to the MFE).
