[Building Sakai] lti and copying sites

Zhen Qian zqian at umich.edu
Thu May 30 13:52:32 PDT 2013


Well, there is currently no property in new site pointing back to old site.

I think the producer should have done the lti tool clone during the site
dupl time, not when the new site is first accessed.

- Zhen


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:41 PM, John Bush <john.bush at rsmart.com> wrote:

> hmm, that's interesting.  So for example, you could make a new
> EntityTranserer impl that simply stores what site a site was copied
> from as a site property or something (I'm not sure that's stored
> anywhere already is it?), and then when you do the launch pass the
> original context id thru the payload.  Then it would be up to the
> producer to do whatever it needs to do to clone its own content based
> on the original context id.  For the use case I'm thinking of that
> might work, and sounds pretty easy.
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Zhen Qian <zqian at umich.edu> wrote:
> > I believe to have entities copied along with site duplication, the
> > EntityTranserer interface needs to be implemented, especially the
> > transferEntities() function inside it.
> >
> > I am not aware of such implementation inside basiclti project. But I
> imagine
> > this could be done, like adding new LTIContent objects, with some
> existing
> > LTI tool attributes?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > - Zhen
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:21 PM, John Bush <john.bush at rsmart.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Has there been any traction in the LTI space about how to deal with
> >> duplicating sites?  It seems it would be helpful to have some sort of
> >> arrangement by which the consumer could be notified when a site is
> >> copied to be able to duplicate content if appropriate.  I'm not sure
> >> how this arrangement is best negotiated, and wondering if its ever
> >> been thought about ?
> >>
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