from xblock.fields import Scope from contentstore.utils import get_modulestore from xmodule.modulestore.inheritance import own_metadata from cms.lib.xblock.mixin import CmsBlockMixin class CourseMetadata(object): ''' For CRUD operations on metadata fields which do not have specific editors on the other pages including any user generated ones. The objects have no predefined attrs but instead are obj encodings of the editable metadata. ''' FILTERED_LIST = ['xml_attributes', 'start', 'end', 'enrollment_start', 'enrollment_end', 'tabs', 'graceperiod', 'checklists', 'show_timezone', 'format', 'graded', ] @classmethod def fetch(cls, descriptor): """ Fetch the key:value editable course details for the given course from persistence and return a CourseMetadata model. """ result = {} for field in descriptor.fields.values(): if field.name in CmsBlockMixin.fields: continue if field.scope != Scope.settings: continue if field.name in cls.FILTERED_LIST: continue result[field.name] = field.read_json(descriptor) return result @classmethod def update_from_json(cls, descriptor, jsondict, filter_tabs=True): """ Decode the json into CourseMetadata and save any changed attrs to the db. Ensures none of the fields are in the blacklist. """ dirty = False # Copy the filtered list to avoid permanently changing the class attribute. filtered_list = list(cls.FILTERED_LIST) # Don't filter on the tab attribute if filter_tabs is False. if not filter_tabs: filtered_list.remove("tabs") for key, val in jsondict.iteritems(): # should it be an error if one of the filtered list items is in the payload? if key in filtered_list: continue if key == "unsetKeys": dirty = True for unset in val: descriptor.fields[unset].delete_from(descriptor) if hasattr(descriptor, key) and getattr(descriptor, key) != val: dirty = True value = descriptor.fields[key].from_json(val) setattr(descriptor, key, value) if dirty: get_modulestore(descriptor.location).update_metadata(descriptor.location, own_metadata(descriptor)) return cls.fetch(descriptor)