from xmodule.modulestore import Location from xmodule.modulestore.django import modulestore ''' cdodge: for a given Xmodule, return the course that it belongs to NOTE: This makes a lot of assumptions about the format of the course location Also we have to assert that this module maps to only one course item - it'll throw an assert if not ''' def get_course_location_for_item(location): item_loc = Location(location) # check to see if item is already a course, if so we can skip this if item_loc.category != 'course': # @hack! We need to find the course location however, we don't # know the 'name' parameter in this context, so we have # to assume there's only one item in this query even though we are not specifying a name course_search_location = ['i4x', item_loc.org, item_loc.course, 'course', None] courses = modulestore().get_items(course_search_location) # make sure we found exactly one match on this above course search found_cnt = len(courses) if found_cnt == 0: raise BaseException('Could not find course at {0}'.format(course_search_location)) if found_cnt > 1: raise BaseException('Found more than one course at {0}. There should only be one!!!'.format(course_search_location)) location = courses[0].location return location