[gradebook2-dev] Using gradebook2 outside

[Jeffrey Miller.CTR]

Just curious, has anyone else taken a look at Juan's patch or tried it?
Could the same scheme be used for the Gradebook2ComponentService?  

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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>>> <juanarcadio at um.es> 6/30/2011 2:47 PM >>>
Hi,

I moved GradebookToolService to the new pack module. In the war module
I 
set alias (to remain the same ids).

I had a problem in db file with the sessionFactory, concretely with 
hibernate objects like 
"org/sakaiproject/tool/gradebook/Gradebook.hbm.xml". I've got traceback

error when the tomcat starts.

I tried to comment those lines and it was surprising, it seems to work,

I don't know if the commented lines are from an early version that used

hibernate directly, and now it uses the gradebook-service from
edu-services.

The tool seems to work like before, and now I can use the API in other

tools.

I attach a patch. I must to review it, but it could be a first
approach

cheers,
Juan Arcadio.



El 30/06/2011 18:44, Thomas Amsler escribió:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 
>     <mailto: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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