The old line:
from path import path
produced pylint errors because of the baroque way that path.py defined
"path". We tried to get them to change how they defined it, but they
deleted the name instead: https://github.com/jaraco/path.py/issues/102
(Jason then changed his mind, but this is a better way to use path.py,
it avoids the pylint error at least.)
This is primarily to reduce load on MongoDB, where we've lately
had performance problems that we suspect are caused by very
large course structures being evicted from MongoDB's cache. This
may potentially give us a path to better performance as well,
but that's not the goal of this commit.
Surprisingly, LZ4 seemed to actually run more slowly than zlib
for this. Possibly because of some overhead in the Python
bindings? GZip was also surprisingly slow given that it uses
zlib underneath (something like 5x slower).
Use separate cache backend for caching structures.
Abstract out course structure cache.
add datadog metrics for compressed course structure sizes
Since we're using a different cache background, we don't need to have a cache prefix
Use dummy cache backend for tests.
Fallback to default cache if course_structure_cache doesn't exist.
This allows the holder of a third-party access token (e.g. from Google
or Facebook) to get a first-party access token for the edX account
linked to the given access token.
path.py objects report themselves as class objects, which confuses the heck out of
pylint. It tries to match variable names using the class-rgx regular expression
instead of the constant-rgx regular expression, and it doesn't match, so it
throws an error. Not sure how to fix pylint, so we'll just ignore these errors.
Tests in common are run with both CMS and LMS configuration (with different env files). Ensure the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE variables are in both environments.
Including:
* Change path for mongo_metadata_inheritance to use unique temp dir
* Update SASS_CACHE_PATH with thread-safe temp dir
* Remove hard coded directory reference for grades download tests
* Remove hard coded directory reference for direct mongo test
