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edx-platform/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/course_metadata_utils.py
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"""
Simple utility functions that operate on course metadata.
This is a place to put simple functions that operate on course metadata. It
allows us to share code between the CourseDescriptor and CourseOverview
classes, which both need these type of functions.
"""
from datetime import datetime
from base64 import b32encode
from django.utils.timezone import UTC
from .fields import Date
DEFAULT_START_DATE = datetime(2030, 1, 1, tzinfo=UTC())
def clean_course_key(course_key, padding_char):
"""
Encode a course's key into a unique, deterministic base32-encoded ID for
the course.
Arguments:
course_key (CourseKey): A course key.
padding_char (str): Character used for padding at end of the encoded
string. The standard value for this is '='.
"""
return "course_{}".format(
b32encode(unicode(course_key)).replace('=', padding_char)
)
def url_name_for_course_location(location):
"""
Given a course's usage locator, returns the course's URL name.
Arguments:
location (BlockUsageLocator): The course's usage locator.
"""
return location.name
def display_name_with_default(course):
"""
Calculates the display name for a course.
Default to the display_name if it isn't None, else fall back to creating
a name based on the URL.
Unlike the rest of this module's functions, this function takes an entire
course descriptor/overview as a parameter. This is because a few test cases
(specifically, {Text|Image|Video}AnnotationModuleTestCase.test_student_view)
create scenarios where course.display_name is not None but course.location
is None, which causes calling course.url_name to fail. So, although we'd
like to just pass course.display_name and course.url_name as arguments to
this function, we can't do so without breaking those tests.
Arguments:
course (CourseDescriptor|CourseOverview): descriptor or overview of
said course.
"""
# TODO: Consider changing this to use something like xml.sax.saxutils.escape
return (
course.display_name if course.display_name is not None
else course.url_name.replace('_', ' ')
).replace('<', '&lt;').replace('>', '&gt;')
def number_for_course_location(location):
"""
Given a course's block usage locator, returns the course's number.
This is a "number" in the sense of the "course numbers" that you see at
lots of universities. For example, given a course
"Intro to Computer Science" with the course key "edX/CS-101/2014", the
course number would be "CS-101"
Arguments:
location (BlockUsageLocator): The usage locator of the course in
question.
"""
return location.course
def has_course_started(start_date):
"""
Given a course's start datetime, returns whether the current time's past it.
Arguments:
start_date (datetime): The start datetime of the course in question.
"""
# TODO: This will throw if start_date is None... consider changing this behavior?
return datetime.now(UTC()) > start_date
def has_course_ended(end_date):
"""
Given a course's end datetime, returns whether
(a) it is not None, and
(b) the current time is past it.
Arguments:
end_date (datetime): The end datetime of the course in question.
"""
return datetime.now(UTC()) > end_date if end_date is not None else False
def course_start_date_is_default(start, advertised_start):
"""
Returns whether a course's start date hasn't yet been set.
Arguments:
start (datetime): The start datetime of the course in question.
advertised_start (str): The advertised start date of the course
in question.
"""
return advertised_start is None and start == DEFAULT_START_DATE
def _datetime_to_string(date_time, format_string, strftime_localized):
"""
Formats the given datetime with the given function and format string.
Adds UTC to the resulting string if the format is DATE_TIME or TIME.
Arguments:
date_time (datetime): the datetime to be formatted
format_string (str): the date format type, as passed to strftime
strftime_localized ((datetime, str) -> str): a nm localized string
formatting function
"""
# TODO: Is manually appending UTC really the right thing to do here? What if date_time isn't UTC?
result = strftime_localized(date_time, format_string)
return (
result + u" UTC" if format_string in ['DATE_TIME', 'TIME']
else result
)
def course_start_datetime_text(start_date, advertised_start, format_string, ugettext, strftime_localized):
"""
Calculates text to be shown to user regarding a course's start
datetime in UTC.
Prefers .advertised_start, then falls back to .start.
Arguments:
start_date (datetime): the course's start datetime
advertised_start (str): the course's advertised start date
format_string (str): the date format type, as passed to strftime
ugettext ((str) -> str): a text localization function
strftime_localized ((datetime, str) -> str): a localized string
formatting function
"""
if advertised_start is not None:
# TODO: This will return an empty string if advertised_start == ""... consider changing this behavior?
try:
# from_json either returns a Date, returns None, or raises a ValueError
parsed_advertised_start = Date().from_json(advertised_start)
if parsed_advertised_start is not None:
# In the Django implementation of strftime_localized, if
# the year is <1900, _datetime_to_string will raise a ValueError.
return _datetime_to_string(parsed_advertised_start, format_string, strftime_localized)
except ValueError:
pass
return advertised_start.title()
elif start_date != DEFAULT_START_DATE:
return _datetime_to_string(start_date, format_string, strftime_localized)
else:
_ = ugettext
# Translators: TBD stands for 'To Be Determined' and is used when a course
# does not yet have an announced start date.
return _('TBD')
def course_end_datetime_text(end_date, format_string, strftime_localized):
"""
Returns a formatted string for a course's end date or datetime.
If end_date is None, an empty string will be returned.
Arguments:
end_date (datetime): the end datetime of a course
format_string (str): the date format type, as passed to strftime
strftime_localized ((datetime, str) -> str): a localized string
formatting function
"""
return (
_datetime_to_string(end_date, format_string, strftime_localized) if end_date is not None
else ''
)
def may_certify_for_course(certificates_display_behavior, certificates_show_before_end, has_ended):
"""
Returns whether it is acceptable to show the student a certificate download
link for a course.
Arguments:
certificates_display_behavior (str): string describing the course's
certificate display behavior.
See CourseFields.certificates_display_behavior.help for more detail.
certificates_show_before_end (bool): whether user can download the
course's certificates before the course has ended.
has_ended (bool): Whether the course has ended.
"""
show_early = (
certificates_display_behavior in ('early_with_info', 'early_no_info')
or certificates_show_before_end
)
return show_early or has_ended