Doing modulestore lookups is expensive, so commit 695b036 created a
course_publish listener that would materialize the discussion ID to
XBlock usage key mapping into the CourseDiscussionSettings model.
However, the signal wasn't hooked up to the Studio process, so that
async task was never called. When hooking it up, I also discovered that
bok choy tests related to partitioning were failing because of a race
condition where multiple processes are overwriting the discussion
settings. To make sure this wasn't an issue, I moved the mapping to
its own table.
This is part of ARCH-111, and the overall Course Structures API
deprecation.
This commit updates common/djangoapps.
These keys are now objects with a limited interface, and the particular
internal representation is managed by the data storage layer (the
modulestore).
For the LMS, there should be no outward-facing changes to the system.
The keys are, for now, a change to internal representation only. For
Studio, the new serialized form of the keys is used in urls, to allow
for further migration in the future.
Co-Author: Andy Armstrong <andya@edx.org>
Co-Author: Christina Roberts <christina@edx.org>
Co-Author: David Baumgold <db@edx.org>
Co-Author: Diana Huang <dkh@edx.org>
Co-Author: Don Mitchell <dmitchell@edx.org>
Co-Author: Julia Hansbrough <julia@edx.org>
Co-Author: Nimisha Asthagiri <nasthagiri@edx.org>
Co-Author: Sarina Canelake <sarina@edx.org>
[LMS-2370]
