[Building Sakai] Gradebook2 and Sakai 2.6.x
Kevin Chan
kevin at media.berkeley.edu
Mon Nov 23 13:45:10 PST 2009
Thanks James, those additional SQL statements did the trick (as far as
loading of both the old and new Gradebooks go).
Kevin Chan
Operations Team
Educational Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
On 11/20/09 1:24 PM, James Renfro wrote:
> Apologies, it looks like I managed to check in a slightly newer patch
> under the 1.1.x branches, so the gradebook module's data model objects
> are now up-to-date with trunk, rather than the 1.1.x sql scripts.
>
> This is not an issue at all, since those fields will just be left
> null, but you'll need to apply the following in your db:
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/gradebook2/trunk/sakai/2-6-x/sql/oracle/GRBK-367.sql
>
> and possibly also
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/gradebook2/trunk/sakai/2-6-x/sql/oracle/GRBK-234.sql
>
> I'll update the 1.1.x-dev and 1.1.x-test branches to fix this, and I'm
> planning to bring gradebook2.sql up-to-date so that's the only script
> new installers need to run.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Kevin Chan <kevin at media.berkeley.edu
> <mailto:kevin at media.berkeley.edu>> wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> Thanks for the notes. With the exception of using the 1.1.x-dev
> branch instead of 1.1.x-test, I had followed the instructions very
> closely (there was a part of a patch to Assignments.java that
> failed (easily merged) and some "alter table" SQL that were
> unnecessary as the added columns are already in our 2.6.x DB) and
> had gotten errors as I described previously.
>
> I rebuilt GB2 today with a clean copy of data from our production
> DB and got the same results.
>
> If I try to view GB2, I get:
>
> org.sakaiproject.portal.api.PortalHandlerException:
> org.sakaiproject.tool.api.ToolException: Request processing
> failed; nested exception is
> org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessResourceUsageException:
> could not execute query; nested exception is
> org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not execute query
> at
> org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.doGet(SkinnableCharonPortal.java:769)
> ...
> caused by: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00904:
> "GRADEBOOK0_"."DO_SHOW_ITEM_STATS": invalid identifier
> --end of snippet
>
> I am not familiar with any table called "GRADEBOOK0", all
> Gradebook tables begin with "GB_".
>
> If I try to view Gradebook, I get:
>
> org.sakaiproject.portal.api.PortalHandlerException:
> org.sakaiproject.tool.api.ToolException: Cannot get value for
> expression '#{bean.pageName ne 'gradebookSetup' &&
> bean.userAbleToEditAssessments}'
> at
> org.sakaiproject.portal.charon.SkinnableCharonPortal.doGet(SkinnableCharonPortal.java:769)
>
> caused by: org.sakaiproject.tool.api.ToolException: Cannot get
> value for expression '#{bean.pageName ne 'gradebookSetup' &&
> bean.userAbleToEditAssessments}'
> --end of snippet
>
> Let me know if I should open a Jira ticket or if it is something
> that I overlooked. Also, do you know if rSmart built GB2/2.6.x
> with the default Sakai modules (like portal, we have a slightly
> customized version of portal so maybe that is the problem) or if
> there were heavy changes/other modules needed to make it work?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin Chan
>
> Operations Team
> Educational Technology Services
> University of California, Berkeley
>
>
> On 11/18/09 7:58 PM, James Renfro wrote:
>> Hi Kevin,
>> It is definitely possible to get Gradebook2 working with a Sakai
>> 2.6.x deployment. RSmart has it running, and I'm working with it
>> locally on my desktop. Most of the other institutions that are
>> using Gradebook2 are running 2.5.x afaik.
>>
>> Not sure which tag you're installing. We're currently running
>> 1.1.3 in production at UCDavis, and this is our current
>> "recommended" build for all institutions, but ootb that tag is
>> organized to build against 2.5.x right now.
>>
>> Versions 1.1.3, 1.1.4, and 1.1.5 are all the same as far as
>> actual code, and represent incremental improvements to the build
>> process.
>>
>> For 2.6.x compatibility I would recommend 1.1.5, which has not
>> yet been cut, but which will soon be our latest fully QA'd
>> version that has been put together explicitly to build against
>> 2.6.x -- it will still require patches to be applied to both the
>> original gradebook module and sam module, which is unfortunately
>> going to be the case for gb2 in general at least until 2.7.x, but
>> it should no longer require any patching to the gradebook2 code
>> itself to run against 2.6.x -- you can run this code currently
>> from our test branch.
>>
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/gradebook2/branches/1.1.x-test
>>
>> We should be cutting 1.1.5 itself in the next week, depending how
>> long the QA process takes, at which point the code will be at:
>>
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/gradebook2/tags/1.1.5
>>
>>
>> If you're running with auto.ddl off, you will also need to run
>> one or more of the scripts included in:
>>
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/gradebook2/branches/1.1.x-test/client/src/sql/oracle/
>>
>> For other instructions you may want to consult the 2.6.x install
>> directions, if you haven't dug them out already (they have been
>> updated in the last few days to match the current code).
>>
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/gradebook2/branches/1.1.x-test/sakai/2-6-x/INSTALL.txt
>>
>> Finally, you may want to tweak the version of 2.6.x for the
>> build... you can do this by running this script:
>>
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/gradebook2/branches/1.1.x-test/setSakaiVersion.sh
>>
>>
>> Please let me know if you run into any problems,
>> James
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Kevin Chan
>> <kevin at media.berkeley.edu <mailto:kevin at media.berkeley.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking to do a test build of Gradebook2 as a part of UC
>> Berkeley's
>> Sakai 2.6.x deployment. It looks like rSmart has already
>> completed this
>> implementation and the effort to document/implement this is
>> happening in:
>>
>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-330
>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-422
>>
>> Although I managed to compile GB2 with our code, there were
>> some DB
>> errors when I attempted to view both GB2 and the 2.6.x
>> gradebook. This
>> issue may very well be self generated (I am not working with
>> a clean
>> DB), but I just wanted to see if anyone can confirm that this is
>> possible and any instruction (perhaps something not currently
>> in any
>> INSTALL.txt files) would be great.
>>
>> I am working with the GB2 1.1.x-dev branch as that appears to
>> be the one
>> that is being used for 2.6.x integration.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Chan
>>
>> Operations Team
>> Educational Technology Services
>> University of California, Berkeley
>>
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