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edx-platform/lms/djangoapps/course_api/views.py
Feanil Patel 79d097d3c8 Remove the role parameter from the courses api.
BOM-1228

The api is already not very performant and trying to limit it to only
show courses where you are staff causes the code to iterate over almost
all the courses and times out before it returns any results to the user.

The plan is to build a different api for the thing we need that will
just provide the course IDs for courses where you are staff and sholud
be much faster.
2020-01-29 16:38:19 -05:00

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"""
Course API Views
"""
from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
from edx_django_utils.monitoring import set_custom_metric
from edx_rest_framework_extensions.paginators import NamespacedPageNumberPagination
from rest_framework.generics import ListAPIView, RetrieveAPIView
from rest_framework.throttling import UserRateThrottle
from openedx.core.lib.api.view_utils import DeveloperErrorViewMixin, view_auth_classes
from . import USE_RATE_LIMIT_2_FOR_COURSE_LIST_API, USE_RATE_LIMIT_10_FOR_COURSE_LIST_API
from .api import course_detail, list_courses
from .forms import CourseDetailGetForm, CourseListGetForm
from .serializers import CourseDetailSerializer, CourseSerializer
@view_auth_classes(is_authenticated=False)
class CourseDetailView(DeveloperErrorViewMixin, RetrieveAPIView):
"""
**Use Cases**
Request details for a course
**Example Requests**
GET /api/courses/v1/courses/{course_key}/
**Response Values**
Body consists of the following fields:
* effort: A textual description of the weekly hours of effort expected
in the course.
* end: Date the course ends, in ISO 8601 notation
* enrollment_end: Date enrollment ends, in ISO 8601 notation
* enrollment_start: Date enrollment begins, in ISO 8601 notation
* id: A unique identifier of the course; a serialized representation
of the opaque key identifying the course.
* media: An object that contains named media items. Included here:
* course_image: An image to show for the course. Represented
as an object with the following fields:
* uri: The location of the image
* name: Name of the course
* number: Catalog number of the course
* org: Name of the organization that owns the course
* overview: A possibly verbose HTML textual description of the course.
Note: this field is only included in the Course Detail view, not
the Course List view.
* short_description: A textual description of the course
* start: Date the course begins, in ISO 8601 notation
* start_display: Readably formatted start of the course
* start_type: Hint describing how `start_display` is set. One of:
* `"string"`: manually set by the course author
* `"timestamp"`: generated from the `start` timestamp
* `"empty"`: no start date is specified
* pacing: Course pacing. Possible values: instructor, self
Deprecated fields:
* blocks_url: Used to fetch the course blocks
* course_id: Course key (use 'id' instead)
**Parameters:**
username (optional):
The username of the specified user for whom the course data
is being accessed. The username is not only required if the API is
requested by an Anonymous user.
**Returns**
* 200 on success with above fields.
* 400 if an invalid parameter was sent or the username was not provided
for an authenticated request.
* 403 if a user who does not have permission to masquerade as
another user specifies a username other than their own.
* 404 if the course is not available or cannot be seen.
Example response:
{
"blocks_url": "/api/courses/v1/blocks/?course_id=edX%2Fexample%2F2012_Fall",
"media": {
"course_image": {
"uri": "/c4x/edX/example/asset/just_a_test.jpg",
"name": "Course Image"
}
},
"description": "An example course.",
"end": "2015-09-19T18:00:00Z",
"enrollment_end": "2015-07-15T00:00:00Z",
"enrollment_start": "2015-06-15T00:00:00Z",
"course_id": "edX/example/2012_Fall",
"name": "Example Course",
"number": "example",
"org": "edX",
"overview: "<p>A verbose description of the course.</p>"
"start": "2015-07-17T12:00:00Z",
"start_display": "July 17, 2015",
"start_type": "timestamp",
"pacing": "instructor"
}
"""
serializer_class = CourseDetailSerializer
def get_object(self):
"""
Return the requested course object, if the user has appropriate
permissions.
"""
requested_params = self.request.query_params.copy()
requested_params.update({'course_key': self.kwargs['course_key_string']})
form = CourseDetailGetForm(requested_params, initial={'requesting_user': self.request.user})
if not form.is_valid():
raise ValidationError(form.errors)
return course_detail(
self.request,
form.cleaned_data['username'],
form.cleaned_data['course_key'],
)
class CourseListUserThrottle(UserRateThrottle):
"""Limit the number of requests users can make to the course list API."""
# The course list endpoint is likely being inefficient with how it's querying
# various parts of the code and can take courseware down, it needs to be rate
# limited until optimized. LEARNER-5527
THROTTLE_RATES = {
'user': '20/minute',
'staff': '40/minute',
}
def check_for_switches(self):
if USE_RATE_LIMIT_2_FOR_COURSE_LIST_API.is_enabled():
self.THROTTLE_RATES = {
'user': '2/minute',
'staff': '10/minute',
}
elif USE_RATE_LIMIT_10_FOR_COURSE_LIST_API.is_enabled():
self.THROTTLE_RATES = {
'user': '10/minute',
'staff': '20/minute',
}
def allow_request(self, request, view):
self.check_for_switches()
# Use a special scope for staff to allow for a separate throttle rate
user = request.user
if user.is_authenticated and (user.is_staff or user.is_superuser):
self.scope = 'staff'
self.rate = self.get_rate()
self.num_requests, self.duration = self.parse_rate(self.rate)
return super(CourseListUserThrottle, self).allow_request(request, view)
@view_auth_classes(is_authenticated=False)
class CourseListView(DeveloperErrorViewMixin, ListAPIView):
"""
**Use Cases**
Request information on all courses visible to the specified user.
**Example Requests**
GET /api/courses/v1/courses/
**Response Values**
Body comprises a list of objects as returned by `CourseDetailView`.
**Parameters**
search_term (optional):
Search term to filter courses (used by ElasticSearch).
username (optional):
The username of the specified user whose visible courses we
want to see. The username is not required only if the API is
requested by an Anonymous user.
org (optional):
If specified, visible `CourseOverview` objects are filtered
such that only those belonging to the organization with the
provided org code (e.g., "HarvardX") are returned.
Case-insensitive.
**Returns**
* 200 on success, with a list of course discovery objects as returned
by `CourseDetailView`.
* 400 if an invalid parameter was sent or the username was not provided
for an authenticated request.
* 403 if a user who does not have permission to masquerade as
another user specifies a username other than their own.
* 404 if the specified user does not exist, or the requesting user does
not have permission to view their courses.
Example response:
[
{
"blocks_url": "/api/courses/v1/blocks/?course_id=edX%2Fexample%2F2012_Fall",
"media": {
"course_image": {
"uri": "/c4x/edX/example/asset/just_a_test.jpg",
"name": "Course Image"
}
},
"description": "An example course.",
"end": "2015-09-19T18:00:00Z",
"enrollment_end": "2015-07-15T00:00:00Z",
"enrollment_start": "2015-06-15T00:00:00Z",
"course_id": "edX/example/2012_Fall",
"name": "Example Course",
"number": "example",
"org": "edX",
"start": "2015-07-17T12:00:00Z",
"start_display": "July 17, 2015",
"start_type": "timestamp"
}
]
"""
pagination_class = NamespacedPageNumberPagination
pagination_class.max_page_size = 100
serializer_class = CourseSerializer
throttle_classes = (CourseListUserThrottle,)
def get_queryset(self):
"""
Yield courses visible to the user.
"""
form = CourseListGetForm(self.request.query_params, initial={'requesting_user': self.request.user})
if not form.is_valid():
raise ValidationError(form.errors)
return list_courses(
self.request,
form.cleaned_data['username'],
org=form.cleaned_data['org'],
filter_=form.cleaned_data['filter_'],
search_term=form.cleaned_data['search_term']
)