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edx-platform/common/lib/xmodule/xml_module.py

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from xmodule.x_module import XModuleDescriptor
from lxml import etree
class XmlDescriptor(XModuleDescriptor):
"""
Mixin class for standardized parsing of from xml
"""
@classmethod
def definition_from_xml(cls, xml_object, system):
"""
Return the definition to be passed to the newly created descriptor
during from_xml
"""
raise NotImplementedError("%s does not implement definition_from_xml" % cls.__class__.__name__)
@classmethod
def from_xml(cls, xml_data, system, org=None, course=None):
"""
Creates an instance of this descriptor from the supplied xml_data.
This may be overridden by subclasses
xml_data: A string of xml that will be translated into data and children for
this module
system: An XModuleSystem for interacting with external resources
org and course are optional strings that will be used in the generated modules
url identifiers
"""
xml_object = etree.fromstring(xml_data)
metadata = {}
for attr in ('format', 'graceperiod', 'showanswer', 'rerandomize', 'due'):
from_xml = xml_object.get(attr)
if from_xml is not None:
metadata[attr] = from_xml
if xml_object.get('graded') is not None:
metadata['graded'] = xml_object.get('graded') == 'true'
if xml_object.get('name') is not None:
metadata['display_name'] = xml_object.get('name')
return cls(
system,
cls.definition_from_xml(xml_object, system),
location=['i4x',
org,
course,
xml_object.tag,
xml_object.get('slug')],
metadata=metadata,
)