Usage for Blackboard?

[mabuhann]

Hello!! I was wondering if this could be modified to fetch assignments from Blackboard the same way it does with Canvas?

[JamesNZL]

Heyo, apologies for the slow response.

As I don't really have the bandwidth to continue active maintenance of this extension (eg the addition of new features), I'll point you to a Discord message that I sent when someone asked about a similar integration with Google Calendar.

If you are not yet already, you will need to join the Discord server for the above message link to work.

In short

In short, I do not believe that it would be too difficult to genericise this extension with a strategy pattern—my original message is copied below.

As above, I do not have the time to do this myself—but you are welcome to make these changes and open a PR if you wish.

if it was worth it and time-permitting, i/someone could probably actually refactor into a facade/strategy type thing, where 'import' is just interfacing with some defined methods---to implement support for a new service (ie notion, google, trello, etc) you'd just need to implement a class that implements the correct interface

interface Service {
  authenticate(): string;
  validateAuthentication(token: string): boolean;
  fetchExisting(): SomeLogicalReturnType;
  importAssignments(assignments: SomeLogicalInputType): SomeLogicalResponseType;
}

class NotionClient implements Service {
  public authenticate() { ... }
  
  public validateAuthentication(token: string) { ... }
  
  public fetchExisting() { ... }

  public importAssignments(assignments: SomeLogicalInputType) { ... }
}

class GoogleClient implements Service {
  public authenticate() { ... }
  
  public validateAuthentication(token: string) { ... }
  
  public fetchExisting() { ... }

  public importAssignments(assignments: SomeLogicalInputType) { ... }
}

class ClientFactory {
  // maybe use an enum here, but the idea is this would probably be saved in browser storage
  public static getClient(service: 'notion' | 'google'): Service { ... }
}

const importer = ClientFactory.getClient('notion');

importer.importAssignments(...);