[Contrib: Evaluation System] Question about EvalEvaluation properties

[Richard C. Moyer II]

Jim,

            Good timing, we were just toying with the idea of using the eval category field to store the term.

            Are these going to be text boxes on the evaluation_assign screen?


Thanks,
Rick

From: evaluation-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:evaluation-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Jim Eng
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:55 PM
To: evaluation
Subject: [Contrib: Evaluation System] Question about EvalEvaluation properties

Hi,

We have been asked to provide a way to select rows from the EVAL_EVALUATION, EVAL_RESPONSE and EVAL_ANSWER tables based on the term-id and a local selector indicating a locally defined category of evaluation.  We have two questions about this work.

1) We found that there is already a "TERM_ID" column in the EVAL_EVALUATION table, which corresponds to the termId field of an EvalEvaluation.  It seems that this field is never set and never accessed in the trunk code, other than in import logic used only at Michigan.  This field seems to match our need perfectly unless it is already being used by someone else for some conflicting purpose that would cause a problem later.  So the question is this: Is anybody using the "termId" property in your current mods to the EVALSYS code?  If so, can you give us a little info about how you use it?

2) We would like to add a String field named "localSelector" in the EvalEvaluation class (along with appropriate setter and getter methods), which would map to a new column named "LOCAL_SELECTOR" in the EVAL_EVALUATION table. The property would be defined as follows:

   /**
       * Optional field never used by EVALSYS code. May be used to mark records for bulk actions.
       * For example, an import operation might set a value that will be persisted and can be used
       * later to select records for export, deletion, etc.  Maximum length is 80 characters.
       */
   public String localSelector;

And the hibernate mapping would be defined as follows:

        <property name="localSelector" type="java.lang.String">
              <column name="LOCAL_SELECTOR" length="255" />
        </property>

Can anybody see any problem with this?

Thanks.

Jim

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