[gradebook2-dev] Using gradebook2 outside

[juanarcadio at um.es]

  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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>
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