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edx-platform/lms/djangoapps/certificates/tasks.py
Andy Shultz 1be408046b feat: explain certificate delay seconds and make it overrideable
this appears to be a throttling method on first glance but is instead
an async task handling hack, explain it

and then provide a way to override it for tight control of timing
while regenerating multiple certs
2021-10-26 14:32:33 -04:00

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"""
Tasks that generate a course certificate for a user
"""
from logging import getLogger
from celery import shared_task
from celery_utils.persist_on_failure import LoggedPersistOnFailureTask
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from edx_django_utils.monitoring import set_code_owner_attribute
from opaque_keys.edx.keys import CourseKey
from lms.djangoapps.certificates.data import CertificateStatuses
from lms.djangoapps.certificates.generation import generate_course_certificate
log = getLogger(__name__)
User = get_user_model()
# Certificate generation is delayed in case the caller is still completing their changes
# (for example a certificate regeneration reacting to a post save rather than post commit signal)
CERTIFICATE_DELAY_SECONDS = 2
@shared_task(base=LoggedPersistOnFailureTask, bind=True, default_retry_delay=30, max_retries=2)
@set_code_owner_attribute
def generate_certificate(self, **kwargs): # pylint: disable=unused-argument
"""
Generates a certificate for a single user.
kwargs:
- student: The student for whom to generate a certificate. Required.
- course_key: The course key for the course that the student is
receiving a certificate in. Required.
- status: Certificate status (value from the CertificateStatuses model). Defaults to 'downloadable'.
- enrollment_mode: User's enrollment mode (ex. verified). Required.
- course_grade: User's course grade. Defaults to ''.
- generation_mode: Used when emitting an event. Options are "self" (implying the user generated the cert
themself) and "batch" for everything else. Defaults to 'batch'.
"""
student = User.objects.get(id=kwargs.pop('student'))
course_key = CourseKey.from_string(kwargs.pop('course_key'))
status = kwargs.pop('status', CertificateStatuses.downloadable)
enrollment_mode = kwargs.pop('enrollment_mode')
course_grade = kwargs.pop('course_grade', '')
generation_mode = kwargs.pop('generation_mode', 'batch')
generate_course_certificate(user=student, course_key=course_key, status=status, enrollment_mode=enrollment_mode,
course_grade=course_grade, generation_mode=generation_mode)