[Building Sakai] Assignment API

[Eby John]

Thank you all for the clarifications.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>wrote:

> 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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