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edx-platform/lms/djangoapps/course_api/serializers.py
2015-12-28 16:24:54 -05:00

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"""
Course API Serializers. Representing course catalog data
"""
import urllib
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from rest_framework import serializers
from openedx.core.djangoapps.models.course_details import CourseDetails
class _MediaSerializer(serializers.Serializer): # pylint: disable=abstract-method
"""
Nested serializer to represent a media object.
"""
def __init__(self, uri_attribute, *args, **kwargs):
super(_MediaSerializer, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.uri_attribute = uri_attribute
uri = serializers.SerializerMethodField(source='*')
def get_uri(self, course_overview):
"""
Get the representation for the media resource's URI
"""
return getattr(course_overview, self.uri_attribute)
class _CourseApiMediaCollectionSerializer(serializers.Serializer): # pylint: disable=abstract-method
"""
Nested serializer to represent a collection of media objects
"""
course_image = _MediaSerializer(source='*', uri_attribute='course_image_url')
course_video = _MediaSerializer(source='*', uri_attribute='course_video_url')
class CourseSerializer(serializers.Serializer): # pylint: disable=abstract-method
"""
Serializer for Course objects providing minimal data about the course.
Compare this with CourseDetailSerializer.
"""
blocks_url = serializers.SerializerMethodField()
effort = serializers.CharField()
end = serializers.DateTimeField()
enrollment_start = serializers.DateTimeField()
enrollment_end = serializers.DateTimeField()
id = serializers.CharField() # pylint: disable=invalid-name
media = _CourseApiMediaCollectionSerializer(source='*')
name = serializers.CharField(source='display_name_with_default_escaped')
number = serializers.CharField(source='display_number_with_default')
org = serializers.CharField(source='display_org_with_default')
short_description = serializers.CharField()
start = serializers.DateTimeField()
start_display = serializers.CharField()
start_type = serializers.CharField()
# 'course_id' is a deprecated field, please use 'id' instead.
course_id = serializers.CharField(source='id', read_only=True)
def get_blocks_url(self, course_overview):
"""
Get the representation for SerializerMethodField `blocks_url`
"""
base_url = '?'.join([
reverse('blocks_in_course'),
urllib.urlencode({'course_id': course_overview.id}),
])
return self.context['request'].build_absolute_uri(base_url)
class CourseDetailSerializer(CourseSerializer): # pylint: disable=abstract-method
"""
Serializer for Course objects providing additional details about the
course.
This serializer makes additional database accesses (to the modulestore) and
returns more data (including 'overview' text). Therefore, for performance
and bandwidth reasons, it is expected that this serializer is used only
when serializing a single course, and not for serializing a list of
courses.
"""
overview = serializers.SerializerMethodField()
def get_overview(self, course_overview):
"""
Get the representation for SerializerMethodField `overview`
"""
# Note: This makes a call to the modulestore, unlike the other
# fields from CourseSerializer, which get their data
# from the CourseOverview object in SQL.
return CourseDetails.fetch_about_attribute(course_overview.id, 'overview')