from xmodule.modulestore import Location from contentstore.utils import get_modulestore from xmodule.x_module import XModuleDescriptor class CourseMetadata(object): ''' For CRUD operations on metadata fields which do not have specific editors on the other pages including any user generated ones. The objects have no predefined attrs but instead are obj encodings of the editable metadata. ''' # __new_advanced_key__ is used by client not server; so, could argue against it being here FILTERED_LIST = XModuleDescriptor.system_metadata_fields + ['start', 'end', 'enrollment_start', 'enrollment_end', 'tabs', 'graceperiod', '__new_advanced_key__'] @classmethod def fetch(cls, course_location): """ Fetch the key:value editable course details for the given course from persistence and return a CourseMetadata model. """ if not isinstance(course_location, Location): course_location = Location(course_location) course = {} descriptor = get_modulestore(course_location).get_item(course_location) for k, v in descriptor.metadata.iteritems(): if k not in cls.FILTERED_LIST: course[k] = v return course @classmethod def update_from_json(cls, course_location, jsondict): """ Decode the json into CourseMetadata and save any changed attrs to the db. Ensures none of the fields are in the blacklist. """ descriptor = get_modulestore(course_location).get_item(course_location) dirty = False for k, v in jsondict.iteritems(): # should it be an error if one of the filtered list items is in the payload? if k not in cls.FILTERED_LIST and (k not in descriptor.metadata or descriptor.metadata[k] != v): dirty = True descriptor.metadata[k] = v if dirty: get_modulestore(course_location).update_metadata(course_location, descriptor.metadata) # Could just generate and return a course obj w/o doing any db reads, but I put the reads in as a means to confirm # it persisted correctly return cls.fetch(course_location) @classmethod def delete_key(cls, course_location, payload): ''' Remove the given metadata key(s) from the course. payload can be a single key or [key..] ''' descriptor = get_modulestore(course_location).get_item(course_location) for key in payload['deleteKeys']: if key in descriptor.metadata: del descriptor.metadata[key] get_modulestore(course_location).update_metadata(course_location, descriptor.metadata) return cls.fetch(course_location)