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edx-platform/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/utils.py

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from xmodule.modulestore import Location
from xmodule.modulestore.django import modulestore
'''
cdodge: for a given Xmodule, return the course that it belongs to
NOTE: This makes a lot of assumptions about the format of the course location
Also we have to assert that this module maps to only one course item - it'll throw an
assert if not
'''
def get_course_location_for_item(location):
item_loc = Location(location)
# check to see if item is already a course, if so we can skip this
if item_loc.category != 'course':
# @hack! We need to find the course location however, we don't
# know the 'name' parameter in this context, so we have
# to assume there's only one item in this query even though we are not specifying a name
course_search_location = ['i4x', item_loc.org, item_loc.course, 'course', None]
courses = modulestore().get_items(course_search_location)
# make sure we found exactly one match on this above course search
found_cnt = len(courses)
if found_cnt == 0:
raise BaseException('Could not find course at {0}'.format(course_search_location))
if found_cnt > 1:
raise BaseException('Found more than one course at {0}. There should only be one!!!'.format(course_search_location))
location = courses[0].location
return location