[Building Sakai] lti and copying sites

[John Bush]

but how would you do that without something in LTI that supports it?
Your only mechanism to communicate with an external tool is during
launch.

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Zhen Qian <zqian at umich.edu> wrote:
> 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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