wip: create new course

cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views.py

@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ def index(request):
     courses = filter(lambda course: has_access(request.user, course.location), courses)
 
     return render_to_response('index.html', {
+        'new_course_template' : Location('i4x', 'edx', 'templates', 'course', 'Empty'),
         'courses': [(course.metadata.get('display_name'),
                     reverse('course_index', args=[
                         course.location.org,
@@ -597,7 +598,32 @@ def unpublish_unit(request):
 
     return HttpResponse()
 
+@login_required
+@expect_json
+def create_new_course(request):
+    template = Location(request.POST['template'])
+    org = request.POST.get('org')   
+    number = request.POST.get('number')  
+    display_name = request.POST.get('display_name')   
+
+    dest_location = Location('i4x', org, number, 'course', Location.clean(display_name))
+
+    logging.debug(dest_location)
+    logging.debug(template)
+
+    new_course = modulestore('direct').clone_item(template, dest_location)
+
+    if display_name is not None:
+        new_course.metadata['display_name'] = display_name
+
+    # we need a 'data_dir' for legacy reasons
+    new_course.metadata['data_dir'] = uuid4().hex
+
+    modulestore('direct').update_metadata(new_course.location.url(), new_course.own_metadata)   
+
+    create_all_course_groups(request.user, new_course.location)
 
+    return HttpResponse(json.dumps({'id': new_course.location.url()}))
 
 @login_required
 @expect_json

cms/static/js/base.js

@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
         e.preventDefault();
         $('.import .file-input').click();
     });
+
+    $('.new-course-button').bind('click', addNewCourse);
 });
 
 function showImportSubmit(e) {
@@ -406,6 +408,7 @@ function addNewSection(e) {
     $newSection.find('.new-section-name-cancel').bind('click', cancelNewSection);
 }
 
+
 function saveNewSection(e) {
     e.preventDefault();
 
@@ -430,6 +433,42 @@ function cancelNewSection(e) {
     $(this).parents('section.new-section').remove();
 }
 
+
+function addNewCourse(e) {
+    e.preventDefault();
+    var $newCourse = $($('#new-course-template').html());
+    $('.new-course-button').after($newCourse);
+    $newCourse.find('.new-course-org').focus().select();
+    $newCourse.find('.new-course-save').bind('click', saveNewCourse);
+    $newCourse.find('.new-course-cancel').bind('click', cancelNewCourse);
+}
+
+function saveNewCourse(e) {
+    e.preventDefault();
+
+    template = $(this).data('template');
+
+    org = $(this).prevAll('.new-course-org').val();
+    number = $(this).prevAll('.new-course-number').val();
+    display_name = $(this).prevAll('.new-course-name').val();
+
+    $.post('/create_new_course',
+       { 'template' : template,
+           'org' : org,
+           'number' : number,
+           'display_name': display_name,
+           },
+       function(data) {
+            if (data.id != undefined)
+               location.reload();
+       });    
+}
+
+function cancelNewCourse(e) {
+    e.preventDefault();
+    $(this).parents('section.new-course').remove();
+}
+
 function addNewSubsection(e) {
     e.preventDefault();
     var $section = $(this).closest('.courseware-section');

cms/templates/index.html

@@ -2,13 +2,28 @@
 <%block name="bodyclass">index</%block>
 <%block name="title">Courses</%block>
 
-<%block name="content">
+<%block name="header_extras">
+  <script type="text/template" id="new-course-template">
+    <section class="courseware-section new-course">
+      <header>
+        <div class="item-details">
+          <h3 class="course-info">
+          	<input type="text" placeholder="Organization" class="new-course-org" />
+          	<input type="text" placeholder="Course Number" class="new-course-number" />
+          	<input type="text" placeholder="Course Name" class="new-course-name" />
+          	<a href="#" class="new-course-save" data-template="${new_course_template}">Save</a><a href="#" class="new-course-cancel">Cancel</a></h3>
+        </div>
+      </header>
+    </section>
+  </script>
+ </%block>
 
+<%block name="content">
 	<div class="main-wrapper">
 		<div class="inner-wrapper">
 			<h1>My Courses</h1>
 			<article class="my-classes">
-				<a href="#" class="new-course-button wip-box"><span class="plus-icon"></span> New Course</a>
+				<a href="#" class="new-course-button"><span class="plus-icon"></span> New Course</a>
 				<ul class="class-list">
 					%for course, url in courses:
 			    <li>

cms/urls.py

@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ urlpatterns = ('',
     url(r'^create_draft$', 'contentstore.views.create_draft', name='create_draft'),
     url(r'^publish_draft$', 'contentstore.views.publish_draft', name='publish_draft'),
     url(r'^unpublish_unit$', 'contentstore.views.unpublish_unit', name='unpublish_unit'),
-
-
+    url(r'^create_new_course', 'contentstore.views.create_new_course', name='create_new_course'),
 
     url(r'^(?P<org>[^/]+)/(?P<course>[^/]+)/course/(?P<name>[^/]+)$',
         'contentstore.views.course_index', name='course_index'),

common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/course_module.py

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 class CourseDescriptor(SequenceDescriptor):
     module_class = SequenceModule
 
+    template_dir_name = 'course'
+
     class Textbook:
         def __init__(self, title, book_url):
             self.title = title
@@ -64,7 +66,6 @@ class CourseDescriptor(SequenceDescriptor):
 
     def __init__(self, system, definition=None, **kwargs):
         super(CourseDescriptor, self).__init__(system, definition, **kwargs)
-
         self.textbooks = []
         for title, book_url in self.definition['data']['textbooks']:
             try:

common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/templates.py

@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ def all_templates():
 
     templates = defaultdict(list)
     for category, descriptor in XModuleDescriptor.load_classes():
+        if category == 'course':
+            logging.debug(descriptor.templates())
         templates[category] = descriptor.templates()
 
     return templates
@@ -65,8 +67,9 @@ def update_templates():
             template_location = Location('i4x', 'edx', 'templates', category, Location.clean_for_url_name(template.metadata['display_name']))
 
             try:
-                json_data = template._asdict()
+                json_data = {'definition': {'data': template.data, 'children' : template.children}}
                 json_data['location'] = template_location.dict()
+
                 XModuleDescriptor.load_from_json(json_data, TemplateTestSystem())
             except:
                 log.warning('Unable to instantiate {cat} from template {template}, skipping'.format(