[gradebook2-dev] Using gradebook2 outside

[Jeffrey Miller.CTR]

Yes, we're also facing the same needs and need something soon!

Jeb Miller
Contractor, HJF
Academic Technology Directorate
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, MD  20814-4799
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>>> Thomas Amsler <tpamsler at ucdavis.edu> 6/30/2011 12:44 PM >>>
Please see inline comments bellow:

I think we should be able to create a component service and
add GradebookToolService and Gradebook2ComponentService to it.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:53 AM, John Bush <john.bush at rsmart.com> wrote:

> ug, I have the same need.  We need to run through all the sites in a term
> and export final grades, I thought I was going to be able to write a quartz
> job to do that, but realizing what you just said that won't be possible will
> it.  The name Gradebook2ComponentServiceImpl threw me cause its not a
> component or a service in the normal sakai sense anyway.
>

We are not doing a good job in naming/packaging things. As you guys have
figured out, some of the names are misleading and don't make much sense.

I think that we can create a "real Sakai" component service by exposing the
GradebookToolService and Gradebook2ComponentService APIs. We also need to
rename/refactor things so that they make sense w.r.t. [DAO, Service,
internal, external, client, server]


>
> Exposing this in a component module might take some refactoring, there are
> a bunch of org.sakaiproject.gradebook.gwt.client packages in there, it
> doesn't look like a clean separation to me.


The above is one of the maning issues. For example the interfaces in:

org.sakaiproject.gradebook.gwt.client.model.*

should just be called:

org.sakaiproject.gradebook.gwt.model

.. because there is a server and client specific implementation. The same is
true for:

org.sakaiproject.gradebook.gwt.client.exceptions.*

It would take same refactoring but I think this is a real need so that folks
can leverage existing gradebook2 services.

Comments?

-- Thomas



> I'm at a loss here as well, I need something very quickly done, and this is
> looking like a much bigger engagement all of a sudden.
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:07 AM, <juanarcadio at um.es> wrote:
>
>> **
>> Hi,
>>
>>     This is Juan Arcadio, from the University of Murcia (Spain), we are
>> running Sakai 2.7.1 in limited production pilot  with Gradebook2 1.3.0 from
>> September 2010, (we had translated this version of GB2 to Spanish), as soon
>> as possible we will migrate to Sakai 2.8.0 with GB2 1.5.0
>>
>>     We are developing some custom tools that use gradebook, and we have
>> had some communication problems with gradebook:
>>
>>    - Writing in gradebook: We cant do it when users have never acceded
>>    gradebook2 in that site, more info in:
>>    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-1059 
>>
>>     - Reading from gradebook: Gradebook2 includes new features that can't
>>    be acceded using gradebook-service from indie. The API of Gradebook2 is not
>>    avilable outside the tool, Gradebook2 doesn't deploy any items in components
>>    and therefore the API can not be used from other tools in Sakai. We
>>    could try to expose the internal API with a component module.
>>
>> Any suggestions? Anyone has face the same needs?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Juan Arcadio.
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