[gradebook2-dev] Using gradebook2 outside

[John Bush]

yeah we are sorta taking this approach.  Today we created a selenium script
which calls into all the sites we need exported.  Windriver in selenium 2 is
very cool, hadn't used that before but works well with gwt once you
understand how to switch frames (that took me a bit).

For this particular client, grades go into files, but we are considering
just creating some audit tables which log every export with a date/version
type of thing.  Going forward that should resolve our issues I think.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Jon Gorrono <jpgorrono at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> This message starts at a tangent to the original topic
>
> John, we routinely (more like periodically) export site gradebooks en masse
> using gb2... with a little loosening of the security and a client that can
> send off rest calls, all the grades can be exported into the db
>
> I won't be around tomorrow, so maybe Thomas can hopefully help get you get
> started with a setup:
>
> selenium libraries client side with a list of sites to export... can be run
> in eclipse or command line
> needs a browser, we could do a curl or wget version
> we change the property name for the final grade (code mode) generated in
> order to avoid colliding with good data (gb_action_record_properties_t or
> something like that)
> prob (understatement) best to make copy of the db will to avoid adding
> unwanted data to the db during export and to use a separate node to separate
> load from prod
> some other minor code mod's are necessary, but we've got patches (like
> siteid-gbid assumptions, there's no site with a rest call direct to the
> servlet)
>
>
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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.  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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