There is a singleton SplitMongoModuleStore instance that is returned
whenever we call the ubiquitous modulestore() function (wrapped in a
MixedModuleStore). During initialization, SplitMongoModuleStore sets
up a small handful of XBlock runtime services that are intended to be
shared globally: i18n, fs, cache.
When we get an individual block back from the store using get_item(),
SplitMongoModuleStore creates a SplitModuleStoreRuntime using
SplitMongoModuleStore.create_runtime(). These runtimes are intended to
be modified on a per-item, and later per-user basis (using
prepare_runtime_for_user()).
Prior to this commit, the create_runtime() method was assigning the
globally shared SplitMongoModuleStore.services dict directly to the
newly instantiated SplitModuleStoreRuntime. This meant that even though
each block had its own _services dict, they were all in fact pointing
to the same underlying object. This exposed us to a risk of multiple
threads contaminating each other's SplitModuleStoreRuntime services
when deployed under load in multithreaded mode. We believe this led to
a race condition that caused student submissions to be mis-scored in
some cases.
This commit makes a copy of the SplitMongoModuleStore.services dict for
each SplitModuleStoreRuntime. The baseline global services are still
shared, but other per-item and per-user services are now better
isolated from each other.
This commit also includes a small modification to the PartitionService,
which up until this point had relied on the (incorrect) shared instance
behavior. The details are provided in the comments in the
PartitionService __init__().
It's worth noting that the historical rationale for having a singleton
ModuleStore instance is that the ModuleStore used to be extremely
expensive to initialize. This was because at one point, the init
process required reading entire XML-based courses into memory, or
pre-computing complex field inheritance caches. This is no longer the
case, and SplitMongoModuleStore initialization is in the 1-2 ms range,
with most of that being for PyMongo's connection setup. We should try
to fully remove the global singleton in the Verawood release cycle in
order to make this kind of bug less likely.
The following TestGetCourseUserPartitions tests were deleted:
- test_enrollment_track_partition_not_added_if_conflict
- test_enrollment_track_partition_not_added_if_disabled
For details, see:
https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/35028
Implements the connection from the teams feature to the content groups feature. This implementation uses the dynamic partition generator extension point to associate content groups with the users that belong to a Team.
This implementation was heavily inspired by the enrollment tracks dynamic partitions.
This re-applies commit 36cc415 with handling an invalid context_key in the
`PartitionService`. It can happen when rendering a `LibraryContentBlock` in
Studio because this service is initialized by the modulestore when validating
an XBlock to gather its error messages in the `studio_xblock_wrapper`.
- Moving xmodule folder to root as we're dissolving sub-projects of common folder in edx-platform
- More info: https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/BOM-2579
- -e common/lib/xmodule has been removed from the requirements as xmodule has itself become the part of edx-platform and not being installed through requirements
- The test files common/lib/xmodule/test_files/ have been removed as they are not being used anymore
