[Contrib: Evaluation System] provider not being called
Charles Hedrick
hedrick at rutgers.edu
Tue Sep 28 08:43:06 PDT 2010
What happens if a student adds a course after the evals are set up?
On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
> Jim,
> That is correct. The group provider is only consulted when setting up
> the evals or updating them. Otherwise, the internal DB groups records
> are used. This was done to remove the bottlenecks and performance
> issues related to providers which were not written as efficiently. It
> also simplified a lot of the logic by removing complex merges of data
> from various sources.
>
> For the rutgers situation, it may be beneficial to examine the groups
> tables and see if data is missing. If the groups tables have the data
> but the users still are unable to access things then there might be
> something wrong.
>
> -AZ
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Jim Eng <jimeng at umich.edu> wrote:
>> I am following this discussion closely because we are hoping to move to a
>> newer version of evalsys. It seems to me that Aaron Z told us a year or so
>> ago that the way the group provider works had changed at some point.
>> If I recall correctly, in early versions of evalsys, the provider was
>> consulted frequently while handling user requests. In trunk (or 1.3.x), I
>> think he said that the group information is stored internally and the group
>> provider is consulted occasionally to update it. That was done to
>> streamline queries that matched users with evals by group membership, IIRC.
>>
>> Is this a correct description? If so, your question might be why the group
>> info is not being persisted adequately within sakai, rather than why the
>> group provider is not being consulted in handling particular requests.
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Sep 28, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Aaron Watters wrote:
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> I work with Chuck at Rutgers. I will try to answer your questions and Chuck
>> can
>> correct me if he feels the need.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Richard C. Moyer II <rmoyer at umd.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Charles,
>>>
>>> Here at Maryland we also use the eval group provider, but
>>> unfortunately, I cannot reproduce your error. Currently I'm in the middle of
>>> testing evaluation trunk, revision 70243, against our config and providers
>>> with the hope of migrating to sakai 2.7.
>>>
>>> To help trouble shoot your situation, we'll need a little more
>>> details.
>>>
>>> 1. 'We're not seeing people in our evaluations' - are you signing on as a
>>> student and there are no evaluations or are signing on as an instructor or
>>> admin?
>>>
>>
>> We tried both. The students see no evaluations and the admins see 0
>> students in the evaluations.
>>
>>> 2. 'Our evaluations come entirely from the Rutgers provider.' - are you
>>> building your evaluations outside of the sakai evaluation tool and importing
>>> in or are you building the evaluation using this tool and your groups,
>>> students, instructors, and TA come from your provider?
>>>
>>
>> We import the evaluation data directly into the database.
>>
>>>
>>> 3. 'old code' do you have a date or revision number?
>>>
>> I believe it was the 1.2 stable release.
>>
>>>
>>> 4. 'new code' do you have a date or revision number?
>>>
>>
>> 1.3 RC 2.
>>
>>>
>>> 5. what are the results from the Test EvalGroupProvider from the
>>> Administrate screen? As an admin, student & groupId.
>>> Are you getting back Rutger's IDs or sakai IDs?
>>>
>>
>> "Unexpected error" with the following (abbreviated) traceback in
>> catalina.out
>>
>> 2010-09-28 09:05:03,200 WARN (RenderHandlerBracketer.java:107) - <Exception
>> rendering view: >
>> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot add leaf component with ID
>> summary-link of class uk.org.ponder.rsf.components.UIInternalLink as a child
>> of component with ID viewroot of class uk.org.ponder.rsf.view.ViewRoot
>> since it would displace an existing child of the same name.
>> Please remove the existing component first.
>> at
>> uk.org.ponder.rsf.components.UIContainer.addComponent(UIContainer.java:142)
>> at
>> uk.org.ponder.rsf.components.UIInternalLink.make(UIInternalLink.java:40)
>> at
>> org.sakaiproject.evaluation.tool.producers.AdminTestEGProviderProducer.fillComponents(AdminTestEGProviderProducer.java:133)
>> at
>> uk.org.ponder.rsf.view.support.ViewCollector.fillComponents(ViewCollector.java:56)....
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 6. are you using a UserDirectoryProvider?
>>
>> It doesn't look like it. Should we be?
>> The Rutgers interface implements the following signature
>>
>> public class RutgersEvalGroupsProvider implements
>> org.sakaiproject.evaluation.providers.EvalGroupsProvider {...}
>>
>>>
>>> The summaryProducer, and supporting code has gone through several
>>> enhancements and re-writes over the years. It's possible that depending on
>>> how old your code is that your caught in a void that has since been fixed.
>>>
>>> Please let us know this info and perhaps we can dig a little deeper into
>>> the code.
>>
>> Thanks for your attention. -- Aaron Watters (aaron at rutgers.edu)
>>
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