Prior to this commit, the course api (/api/courses/v1/courses/)
performed all the work necessary to return all courses available
to the user, and then only actually returned on page's worth of those
courses.
With this change, the api now does the work incrementally, computing
only the data needed to fetch the courses up to and including the page
being returned. This still increases approximately linearly as
the page number accessed being increases, but should be more cache-friendly.
One side effect of this is that the max_page reported by pagination
will be an overestimate (it will include pages that are removed due
to a users access restrictions).
This change also changes the sort-order of courses being returned by the
course_api. By sorting by course-id, rather than course-number, we
can sort in the database, rather than in Python, and defer loading data
from the end of the list until it is requested.
REVMI-90
Prior to this commit, the course api (/api/courses/v1/courses/)
performed all the work necessary to return all courses available
to the user, and then only actually returned on page's worth of those
courses.
With this change, the api now does the work incrementally, computing
only the data needed to fetch the courses up to and including the page
being returned. This still increases approximately linearly as
the page number accessed being increases, but should be more cache-friendly.
One side effect of this is that the max_page reported by pagination
will be an overestimate (it will include pages that are removed due
to a users access restrictions).
This change also changes the sort-order of courses being returned by the
course_api. By sorting by course-id, rather than course-number, we
can sort in the database, rather than in Python, and defer loading data
from the end of the list until it is requested.
REVMI-90
This endpoint is likely being inefficient with how it's querying various parts
of the code and can take courseware down, it needs to be rate limited until
optimized.
LEARNER-5527
This endpoint is likely being inefficient with how it's querying various parts of the code
and can take courseware down, it needs to be rate limited until optimized.
LEARNER-5527
Pagination should be standard and easy to adopt so moved the paginators
into the edx_rest_framework_extensions package so they can be easily
installed into other app/projects
* Catalog results are now paginated
* Implements the new namespaced pagination described at
https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47481813
* API level code returns pythonic business objects
* View layer performs serialize at the view layer
* Convert views to use DRF generic views
* Removes an unintentional authentication decorator that caused
the detail endpoint to return a 401 for anonymous users
MA-1724
