[Building Sakai] Assignment API

[Matthew Jones]

It's missing from Sakai 2.8. It's a feature that was added in Sakai 2.9.
(Currently only released in beta, but expected to be released in October)

Each new version of Sakai adds new features, a lot of these are around the
external interfaces as much effort was put into these. The external
interfaces for a major version (like Sakai 2.8) are not compatible with the
next version (Sakai 2.9)

You could build Sakai from source, find where it was added and patch it
back, but this is usually considerable development work.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Eby John <ebyjohn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot Mathew.
>
> One more thing that I wanted to confirm is, the fact that this method is
> missing from the longsight version, is it a configuration detail or is it
> unimplemented.
>
> Eby
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>wrote:
>
>> I would try on a public QA instance.
>> Either
>> qa29. <https://qa29.longsight.com/>sakaiqa.org
>> or on
>> nightly2.sakaiproject.org
>>
>> You can select the 2.9.x nightly or the trunk nightly. The data on the
>> nightly server is deleted more often.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Eby John <ebyjohn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you everyone for your replies.
>>>
>>> @Zhen, We do not have access to the DB so directly accessing it is not
>>> going to work and screen scraping is the last resort.
>>>
>>> @Jim, Mathwew
>>> Version 2.9 seems be have exactly what I am looking for. /assignment/site
>>> But registration on that site is not working I believe so I cannot try
>>> it out. So for the current version on trysakai.longsight.com is there
>>> any other way to get a list of assignments for a site? Or is this a
>>> configuration detail that I need to talk to the admin about?
>>>
>>>
>>> Eby
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looks like those are 2.9 features that Michigan must have backported.
>>>>
>>>> https://trysakai29.longsight.com/direct/assignment/describe
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Jim Eng <jimeng at umich.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Funny.  After I sent that, I clicked on the first link I sent you:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://trysakai.longsight.com/direct/assignment/describe
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And I got something quite different from when I followed a similar
>>>>> link on a server here at Michigan.  Screenshots are attached.  First is
>>>>> what I got from your server.  Second is what I get from our server.  It's
>>>>> likely that your server has some things blocked at this time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At your server:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At our server:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 26, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Jim Eng wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Eby,
>>>>>
>>>>> Try going to this address:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://trysakai.longsight.com/direct/assignment/describe
>>>>>
>>>>> You'll find the URL you mentioned in there, but you'll find a bunch of
>>>>> others as well.  You may need to get all assignments for a site and you may
>>>>> need the site-id for a particular student to do that.  Go up a level to:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://trysakai.longsight.com/direct/
>>>>>
>>>>> And there, you may find a way to get site info for the current user.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 26, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Eby John wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I apologize if this is not the right place to ask this query. Please
>>>>> let me know where I can ask instead.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are trying to a make a mobile application for my college which
>>>>> calls the Sakai api's at the backend. The main application is to fetch the
>>>>> assignments from the site. Right now
>>>>> https://trysakai.longsight.com/direct/assignment/:ID: with the
>>>>> correct ID works. But where do I get these assignment ID's from?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Eby
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