This specifically enables/disables the underlying comment service client
used to make calls to the service. When disabled, this client will now
throw an exception which can be propagated upwards so that callers can
make the right decision about how to notify users of the error, or
handle retry, etc etc.
Firstly, we're now explicitly instructing the comments service to not
return thread responses/comments if the request isn't AJAX. So, if you
load the URL for a single discussion thread in your browser, this would
be a non-AJAX call and we'll avoid loading the responses for the entire
thread behind-the-scenes. Big win here for large threads.
Next, we removed a redundant "get threads" call which was also happening
behind-the-scenes. This call was redundant as the front-end JS also
grabs the thread list when a topic is chosen, so we were making an
extranenous call for no benefit. Poof, gone!
Finally, we added some caching of database queries that are required to
drive a lot of the permissions/cohorts machinery around discussion.
This will have a minimal effect but introduced a cleaner way to apply
general memoization at the per-request level which will let us further
cache things as we identify them as issues.
We're often grabbing the metadata of a specific thread to then be able
to perform other operations, but we never need the actual responses or
comments of a thread unless we're displaying it in the normal forum
view.
This change sets a default of with_responses=False, which instructs the
comment service to not send back the responses/comments for the given
thread. We only ask for responses in the case of rendering a single
thread or inline discussion.
2. Update COMPREHNSIVE_THEME_DIR to COMPREHENSIVE_THEME_DIRS
3. Update paver commands to support multi theme dirs
4. Updating template loaders
5. Add ENABLE_COMPREHENSIVE_THEMING flag to enable or disable theming via settings
6. Update tests
7. Add backward compatibility for COMPREHEHNSIVE_THEME_DIR
By default, disable all caching in tests, to preserve test independence.
In order to enable caching, inherit from CacheSetupMixin, and specify
which cache configuration is needed.
[EV-32]
This reverts commit 086a2ba783, reversing
changes made to a44132ec18. Some minor
code quality issues were addressed as part of this change.
Conflicts:
lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/base/views.py
lms/djangoapps/django_comment_client/utils.py
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
