Internals

Flow Page Interface

This describes the programming interface between Relate and a page in a flow.

Stub Docs of Internals

class course.page.base.Repo_ish

See relate.utils.Repo_ish.

class course.page.base.Course

See course.models.Course.

class course.page.base.FlowSession

See course.models.FlowSession.

Page Interface

class course.page.base.PageContext(course, repo, commit_sha, flow_session, in_sandbox=False, page_uri=None)

course

repo

commit_sha

flow_session

May be None.

page_uri

Note that this is different from course.utils.FlowPageContext, which is used internally by the flow views.

class course.page.base.PageBehavior(show_correctness, show_answer, may_change_answer)

show_correctness

show_answer

may_change_answer

class course.page.base.AnswerFeedback(correctness, feedback=None, bulk_feedback=None)

correctness

A float between 0 and 1 (inclusive), indicating the degree of correctness of the answer. May be None.

feedback

Text (at least as a full sentence, or even multi-paragraph HTML) providing feedback to the student about the provided answer. Should not reveal the correct answer.

May be None, in which case generic feedback is generated from correctness.

bulk_feedback

exception course.page.base.InvalidPageData

Base Classes For Pages

class course.page.base.PageBase(vctx, location, page_desc)

The abstract interface of a flow page.

location

A string ‘location’ for reporting errors.

id

The page identifier.

required_attrs()

Required attributes, as accepted by course.validation.validate_struct(). Subclasses should only add to, not remove entries from this.

allowed_attrs()

Allowed attributes, as accepted by course.validation.validate_struct(). Subclasses should only add to, not remove entries from this.

get_modified_permissions_for_page(permissions)

initialize_page_data(page_context)

Return (possibly randomly generated) data that is used to generate the content on this page. This is passed to methods below as the page_data argument. One possible use for this argument would be a random permutation of choices that is generated once (at flow setup) and then used whenever this page is shown.

title(page_context, page_data)

Return the (non-HTML) title of this page.

body(page_context, page_data)

Return the (HTML) body of the page.

expects_answer()

Returns

a bool indicating whether this page lets the user provide an answer of some type.

is_answer_gradable()

Returns

a bool indicating whether answers on this can have grade() called on them.

True by default.

max_points(page_data)

Returns

a int or float indicating how many points are achievable on this page.

Student Input

answer_data(page_context, page_data, form, files_data)

Return a JSON-persistable object reflecting the user’s answer on the form. This will be passed to methods below as answer_data.

make_form(page_context, page_data, answer_data, page_behavior)

Parameters

• answer_data – value returned by answer_data(). May be None.

• page_behavior – an instance of PageBehavior

Returns

a django.forms.Form instance with answer_data prepopulated. If page_behavior.may_change_answer is False, the form should be read-only.

process_form_post(page_context, page_data, post_data, files_data, page_behavior)

Return a form with the POST response from post_data and files_data filled in.

Parameters

page_behavior – an instance of PageBehavior

Returns

a django.forms.Form instance with answer_data prepopulated. If page_behavior.may_change_answer is False, the form should be read-only.

form_to_html(request, page_context, form, answer_data)

Returns an HTML rendering of form.

Grader Input

make_grading_form(page_context, page_data, grade_data)

Parameters

grade_data – value returned by update_grade_data_from_grading_form_v2(). May be None.

Returns

a django.forms.Form instance with grade_data prepopulated.

post_grading_form(page_context, page_data, grade_data, post_data, files_data)

Return a form with the POST response from post_data and files_data filled in.

Returns

a django.forms.Form instance with grade_data prepopulated.

update_grade_data_from_grading_form_v2(request, page_context, page_data, grade_data, grading_form, files_data)

Return an updated version of grade_data, which is a JSON-persistable object reflecting data on grading of this response. This will be passed to other methods as grade_data.

grading_form_to_html(request, page_context, grading_form, grade_data)

Returns an HTML rendering of grading_form.

Grading/Feedback

grade(page_context, page_data, answer_data, grade_data)

Grade the answer contained in answer_data.

Parameters

• answer_data – value returned by answer_data(), or None, which means that no answer was supplied.

• grade_data – value updated by update_grade_data_from_grading_form_v2()

Returns

a AnswerFeedback instanstance, or None if the grade is not yet available.

correct_answer(page_context, page_data, answer_data, grade_data)

The correct answer to this page’s interaction, formatted as HTML, or None.

analytic_view_body(page_context, page_data)

Return the (HTML) body of the page, which is shown in page analytic view.

normalized_answer(page_context, page_data, answer_data)

An HTML-formatted answer to be used for summarization and display in analytics.

normalized_bytes_answer(page_context, page_data, answer_data)

An answer to be used for batch download, given as a batch of bytes to be stuffed in a zip file.

Returns

a tuple of (file_ext, data) where file_ext is a suggested file extension (inlcuding the leading period, if applicable). May also return None.

One use case of this function is to work as input for a plagiarism checker.

class course.page.base.PageBaseWithTitle(vctx, location, page_desc)

class course.page.base.PageBaseWithHumanTextFeedback(vctx, location, page_desc)

human_feedback_point_value(page_context, page_data)

Subclasses can override this to make the point value of the human feedback known, which will enable grade entry in points.

class course.page.base.PageBaseWithCorrectAnswer(vctx, location, page_desc)

Automatic Feedback

course.page.base.get_auto_feedback(correctness)

Validation

class course.validation.ValidationContext(repo, commit_sha, course=None)

repo

commit_sha

course

A course.models.Course instance, or None, if no database is currently available.

course.validation.validate_struct(vctx, location, obj, required_attrs, allowed_attrs)

Parameters

• required_attrs – an attribute validation list (see below)

• allowed_attrs – an attribute validation list (see below)

An attribute validation list is a list of elements, where each element is either a string (the name of the attribute), in which case the type of each attribute is not checked, or a tuple (name, type), where type is valid as a second argument to isinstance().

Stub Docs

class course.validation.Course

class course.validation.Repo_ish

Stub Docs

class course.models.Course

class course.models.FlowSession

class relate.utils.SubdirRepoWrapper

class course.utils.FlowPageContext

Canonicalization of Django Names

class django.forms.forms.Form

See django.forms.Form.

class django.http.request.HttpRequest

See django.http.HttpRequest.