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edx-platform/openedx/core/djangoapps/xblock/api.py
Braden MacDonald 1382bf8720 Save user state for Blockstore XBlocks in CSM, clean up CSM a bit (#21630)
This commit introduces the changes needed for XBlocks in Blockstore to save
their user state into CSM. Before this commit, all student state for Blockstore
blocks was ephemeral (in-process dict store).

Notes:

* The main risk factor of this PR is that it adds non-course keys to the
  course_id field in CSM. If any code (like analytics?) reads course keys
  directly out of CSM and doesn't have graceful handling for key types it
  doesn't recognize, it could cause an issue. With the included changes to
  opaque-keys, calling CourseKey.from_string(...) on these values will raise
  InvalidKeyError since they're not CourseKeys. (But calling
  LearningContextKey.from_string(...) will work for both course and library
  keys.)
* This commit introduces a slight regression for the Studio view of XBlocks in
  Blockstore content libraries: their state is now lost from request to request.
  I have a follow up PR to give them a proper studio-appropriate state store,
  but I want to review it separately so it doesn't hold up this PR and we can
  test this PR on its own.
2019-09-18 10:27:46 -04:00

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"""
Python API for interacting with edx-platform's new XBlock Runtime.
For content in modulestore (currently all course content), you'll need to use
the older runtime.
Note that these views are only for interacting with existing blocks. Other
Studio APIs cover use cases like adding/deleting/editing blocks.
"""
from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals
import logging
from django.urls import reverse
from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
from opaque_keys.edx.keys import UsageKeyV2
from opaque_keys.edx.locator import BundleDefinitionLocator
from rest_framework.exceptions import NotFound
import six
from xblock.core import XBlock
from xblock.exceptions import NoSuchViewError
from openedx.core.djangoapps.xblock.apps import get_xblock_app_config
from openedx.core.djangoapps.xblock.learning_context.manager import get_learning_context_impl
from openedx.core.djangoapps.xblock.runtime.blockstore_runtime import BlockstoreXBlockRuntime, xml_for_definition
from openedx.core.djangoapps.xblock.runtime.runtime import XBlockRuntimeSystem
from openedx.core.djangolib.blockstore_cache import BundleCache
from .utils import get_secure_token_for_xblock_handler
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
def get_runtime_system():
"""
Get the XBlockRuntimeSystem, which is a single long-lived factory that can
create user-specific runtimes.
The Runtime System isn't always needed (e.g. for management commands), so to
keep application startup faster, it's only initialized when first accessed
via this method.
"""
# pylint: disable=protected-access
if not hasattr(get_runtime_system, '_system'):
params = dict(
handler_url=get_handler_url,
runtime_class=BlockstoreXBlockRuntime,
)
params.update(get_xblock_app_config().get_runtime_system_params())
get_runtime_system._system = XBlockRuntimeSystem(**params)
return get_runtime_system._system
def load_block(usage_key, user):
"""
Load the specified XBlock for the given user.
Returns an instantiated XBlock.
Exceptions:
NotFound - if the XBlock doesn't exist or if the user doesn't have the
necessary permissions
"""
# Is this block part of a course, a library, or what?
# Get the Learning Context Implementation based on the usage key
context_impl = get_learning_context_impl(usage_key)
# Now, using the LearningContext and the Studio/LMS-specific logic, check if
# the block exists in this context and if the user has permission to render
# this XBlock view:
if get_xblock_app_config().require_edit_permission:
authorized = context_impl.can_edit_block(user, usage_key)
else:
authorized = context_impl.can_view_block(user, usage_key)
if not authorized:
# We do not know if the block was not found or if the user doesn't have
# permission, but we want to return the same result in either case:
raise NotFound("XBlock {} does not exist, or you don't have permission to view it.".format(usage_key))
# TODO: load field overrides from the context
# e.g. a course might specify that all 'problem' XBlocks have 'max_attempts'
# set to 3.
# field_overrides = context_impl.get_field_overrides(usage_key)
runtime = get_runtime_system().get_runtime(user=user)
return runtime.get_block(usage_key)
def get_block_metadata(block):
"""
Get metadata about the specified XBlock
"""
return {
"block_id": six.text_type(block.scope_ids.usage_id),
"block_type": block.scope_ids.block_type,
"display_name": get_block_display_name(block),
}
def resolve_definition(block_or_key):
"""
Given an XBlock, definition key, or usage key, return the definition key.
"""
if isinstance(block_or_key, BundleDefinitionLocator):
return block_or_key
elif isinstance(block_or_key, UsageKeyV2):
context_impl = get_learning_context_impl(block_or_key)
return context_impl.definition_for_usage(block_or_key)
elif isinstance(block_or_key, XBlock):
return block_or_key.scope_ids.def_id
else:
raise TypeError(block_or_key)
def xblock_type_display_name(block_type):
"""
Get the display name for the specified XBlock class.
"""
block_class = XBlock.load_class(block_type)
if hasattr(block_class, 'display_name') and block_class.display_name.default:
return _(block_class.display_name.default) # pylint: disable=translation-of-non-string
else:
return block_type # Just use the block type as the name
def get_block_display_name(block_or_key):
"""
Efficiently get the display name of the specified block. This is done in a
way that avoids having to load and parse the block's entire XML field data
using its parse_xml() method, which may be very expensive (e.g. the video
XBlock parse_xml leads to various slow edxval API calls in some cases).
This method also defines and implements various fallback mechanisms in case
the ID can't be loaded.
block_or_key can be an XBlock instance, a usage key or a definition key.
Returns the display name as a string
"""
def_key = resolve_definition(block_or_key)
use_draft = get_xblock_app_config().get_learning_context_params().get('use_draft')
cache = BundleCache(def_key.bundle_uuid, draft_name=use_draft)
cache_key = ('block_display_name', six.text_type(def_key))
display_name = cache.get(cache_key)
if display_name is None:
# Instead of loading the block, just load its XML and parse it
try:
olx_node = xml_for_definition(def_key)
except Exception: # pylint: disable=broad-except
log.exception("Error when trying to get display_name for block definition %s", def_key)
# Return now so we don't cache the error result
return xblock_type_display_name(def_key.block_type)
try:
display_name = olx_node.attrib['display_name']
except KeyError:
display_name = xblock_type_display_name(def_key.block_type)
cache.set(cache_key, display_name)
return display_name
def render_block_view(block, view_name, user): # pylint: disable=unused-argument
"""
Get the HTML, JS, and CSS needed to render the given XBlock view.
The difference between this method and calling
load_block().render(view_name)
is that this method will automatically save any changes to field data that
resulted from rendering the view. If you don't want that, call .render()
directly.
Returns a Fragment.
"""
try:
fragment = block.render(view_name)
except NoSuchViewError:
fallback_view = None
if view_name == 'author_view':
fallback_view = 'student_view'
if fallback_view:
fragment = block.render(fallback_view)
else:
raise
# TODO: save any changed user state fields
# TODO: if the view is anything other than student_view and we're not in the LMS, save any changed
# content/settings/children fields.
return fragment
def get_handler_url(usage_key, handler_name, user_id):
"""
A method for getting the URL to any XBlock handler. The URL must be usable
without any authentication (no cookie, no OAuth/JWT), and may expire. (So
that we can render the XBlock in a secure IFrame without any access to
existing cookies.)
The returned URL will contain the provided handler_name, but is valid for
any other handler on the same XBlock. Callers may replace any occurrences of
the handler name in the resulting URL with the name of any other handler and
the URL will still work. (This greatly reduces the number of calls to this
API endpoint that are needed to interact with any given XBlock.)
Params:
usage_key - Usage Key (Opaque Key object or string)
handler_name - Name of the handler or a dummy name like 'any_handler'
user_id - User ID or XBlockRuntimeSystem.ANONYMOUS_USER
This view does not check/care if the XBlock actually exists.
"""
usage_key_str = six.text_type(usage_key)
site_root_url = get_xblock_app_config().get_site_root_url()
if user_id is None:
raise TypeError("Cannot get handler URLs without specifying a specific user ID.")
elif user_id == XBlockRuntimeSystem.ANONYMOUS_USER:
raise NotImplementedError("handler links for anonymous users are not yet implemented") # TODO: implement
else:
# Normal case: generate a token-secured URL for this handler, specific
# to this user and this XBlock.
secure_token = get_secure_token_for_xblock_handler(user_id, usage_key_str)
path = reverse('xblock_api:xblock_handler', kwargs={
'usage_key_str': usage_key_str,
'user_id': user_id,
'secure_token': secure_token,
'handler_name': handler_name,
})
# We must return an absolute URL. We can't just use
# rest_framework.reverse.reverse to get the absolute URL because this method
# can be called by the XBlock from python as well and in that case we don't
# have access to the request.
return site_root_url + path