Before this commit, we had to do a separate query for every course a
user was enrolled in when determining whether a course was refundable
(if you have a certificate, it isn't). Now the student dashboard will
make a one-time query to grab all of a user's cert-issued courses. This
is indexed, so it should be much faster than grabbing each one
separately.
There are a number of Django Signals that are on the modulestore's
SignalHandler class, such as SignalHandler.course_published. These
signals can trigger very expensive processes to occur, such as course
overview or block structures generation. Most of the time, the test
author doesn't care about these side-effects.
This commit does a few things:
* Converts the signals on SignalHandler to be instances of a new
SwitchedSignal class, that allows signal sending to be disabled.
* Creates a SignalIsolationMixin helper similar in spirit to the
CacheIsolationMixin, and adds it to the ModuleStoreIsolationMixin
(and thus to ModuleStoreTestCase and SharedModuleStoreTestCase).
* Converts our various tests to use this new mechanism. In some cases,
this means adjusting query counts downwards because they no longer
have to account for publishing listener actions.
Modulestore generated signals are now muted by default during test runs.
Calls to send() them will result in no-ops. You can choose to enable
specific signals for a given subclass of ModuleStoreTestCase or
SharedModuleStoreTestCase by specifying an ENABLED_SIGNALS class
attribute, like the following example:
from xmodule.modulestore.tests.django_utils import ModuleStoreTestCase
class MyPublishTestCase(ModuleStoreTestCase):
ENABLED_SIGNALS = ['course_published', 'pre_publish']
You should take great care when disabling signals outside of a
ModuleStoreTestCase or SharedModuleStoreTestCase, since they can leak
out into other tests. Be sure to always clean up, and never disable
signals outside of testing. Because signals are essentially process
globals, it can have a lot of unpleasant side-effects if we start
mucking around with them during live requests.
Overall, this change has cut the total test execution time for
edx-platform by a bit over a third, though we still spend a lot in
pre-test setup during our test builds.
[PERF-413]
It should help catch unicode encoding problems earlier.
This also updates python-saml dependency to a version that includes a
patch for unicode strings.
2. Add site configuration overrides to theming/helpers.py
3. Move microsite.get_value from theming/helpers to site_configuration/helpers
4. Move microsite_configuration.microsite.get_value usages to site_configuration.helpers.values
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]
The verification workflow assumes that all verified courses will have a
price. Free verified course modes cause a 404 when the user attempts to
enroll or upgrade.
The previous logic was a convoluted way of doing the same thing, and
has already led to one bug. Instead of hoping that the bugs are ironed
out now and that future devs maintain this logic properly, let's just
set a real cutoff date.
The verification workflow assumes that all verified courses will have a
price. Free verified course modes cause a 404 when the user attempts to
enroll or upgrade.
Two new certificate statuses are introduced, 'audit_passing' and
'audit_notpassing'. These signal that the GeneratedCertificate is not
to be displayed as a cert to the user, and that they either passed or
did not. This allows us to retain existing grading logic, as well as
maintaining correctness in analytics and reporting.
Ineligible certificates are hidden by using the
`eligible_certificates` manager on GeneratedCertificate. Some places
in the coe (largely reporting, analytics, and management commands) use
the default `objects` manager, since they need access to all
certificates.
ECOM-3040
ECOM-3515
If platform name or "All rights reserved" translation contain non-ascii characters,
certificate HTML view would break with "'ascii' codec can't encode character...".
