Extended course info

[hanleybrand]

GET /courses/{courseId}/extended

Extends com.alltheducks.bbws.model.CourseDto, adds supporting methods - returns additional info
(rowStatus: 0-4 | U, isAvailable: true/false)

*important note: * currently courses with RowStatus=2 generate a 404 response: { "code": 404, "message": "Not Found"} - this will hopefully be addressed in the next week

We’ve been using your b2 at Temple for some faculty-centric SIS tools (thanks for releasing it!), but faculty were requesting being able to see if their courses were available or not.

Future plans:

• refactor CourseExtendedDto to also return unavailable(row_status = '2') courses
• add enrollment list (
  GET /courses/{courseId}/users_student
  and
  GET /courses/{courseId}/users_all
  )
• investigate porting atd-enabler to a web service (so faculty can turn courses on and off in a similar manner to how qwickly implements their availability toggle)

If you think it's not worth having the extra extended (i.e. that it makes more sense to just have the already implemented /courses/{courseId}/ service include the availability info), reject the PR and I can refactor & re-submit.

[wileyfuller]

thanks for the pull request. We've had a chat about your changes, and would like to go with your second suggestion. i.e. modifying the existing service to include availability info.

I can either leave this pull request open, and you can modify the code, or I can reject if you'd prefer to do it in a new PR.

[hanleybrand]

This sounds great - I'll get this done asap (sorry for the delay). I guess I can just re-commit and this PR will stay open, so that's fine to do it that way.

[espeecat]

Hi
Just wanted to say that I've been testing this B2 out. Really useful -thank you. I've supplemented some of the methods with stuff we're intending to use i.e. to get attempt date for submissions. I also wanted info on assignment types (e.g. Turnitin, manual etc) so querying via the gradecenter seems the way to go. What this did show, for example, is that Turnitin aren't populating the gradecentre with due dates which would be useful.

I tried to mavenise it but had issues -not sure. It works fine with Gradle. I suspect this block won't work with the latest version of Blackboard but would be interested to know if anyone has tried. I'll download the latest VM when I get a chance.

Great stuff and glad to see it's being maintained.

p.s. we're on managed hosting to don't have access to the full database so using this to get data out is proving useful.

[hanleybrand]

Out of curiosity - why do you think it won't work on the latest version? Do you mean Saas? Or Q2 2016?

We have a test instance of Q216 - I can throw the b2 up there and test it

(and also: yeah, we (Temple University) just moved to managed hosting too, and this b2 is looking helpful for getting the live data we used to get with direct sql queries)

[espeecat]

Hi
Blackboard mentioned that we have a lot of plugins/B2s on our instance of blackboard. We have lots of similar B2s that, for example, list modules (e.g. chemistry 101) by year/semester. We also have a news and announcement widget/B2.

Blackboard thought some of these might break in Q2 2016 (java 8). What we then found out was that anything written with the older Spring Framework would probably break and need updating. I'm assuming that as this project was started a while back then it's probably using an older version of Spring. I don't know which version of Spring is supported in Q2 2016 but I'm assuming it's related to being Java 8 so probably anything before Spring 4.x might not work in Q2 2016. It's all assumption, I'm afraid, as I've not had chance to test.

If you get chance to try it out then I'd love to know. I've just bought the Spring 4.3 book to work out the differences: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Getting-started-Spring-Framework-Third-ebook/dp/B01HZXQFUS/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1

Jas

[shaneargo]

Spring must be updated to v4.25 to work on Java 8.

On 25 August 2016 at 20:27:22, Jason Bailey (notifications@github.com)
wrote:

Hi
Blackboard mentioned that we have a lot of plugins/B2s on our instance of
blackboard. We have lots of similar B2s that, for example, list modules
(e.g. chemistry 101) by year/semester. We also have a news and announcement
widget/B2.

Blackboard thought some of these might break in Q2 2016 (java 8). What we
then found out was that anything written with the older Spring Framework
would probably break and need updating. I'm assuming that as this project
was started a while back then it's probably using an older version of
Spring. I don't know which version of Spring is supported in Q2 2016 but
I'm assuming it's related to being Java 8 so probably anything before
Spring 4.x might not work in Q2 2016. It's all assumption, I'm afraid, as
I've not had chance to test.

If you get chance to try it out then I'd love to know. I've just bought the
Spring 4.3 book to work out the differences:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Getting-started-Spring-Framework-Third-ebook/dp/B01HZXQFUS/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1

Jas

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[hanleybrand]

I haven't gotten around to updating my original b2 but a first pass at updating the b2 to work with q2 2016/SaaS is here: https://github.com/hanleybrand/atd-bbws/tree/q216_and_SASS

It needs to be its own pull request (I've tested it with q2 2016 (works) but not earlier versions so I don't know... actually I do know, it won't work with earlier versions because there were some API changes for gradebook stuff which would need to be handled.

btw only 2 lines of code plus the spring libraries were necessary