Migrate from HTTP to native Python API in edx-platform

[regisb]

Currently, edx-platform interacts with Forum v2 via an HTTP (REST) API. But this protocol is no longer appropriate once the forum application is in the same Python runtime as edx-platform. Thus, forum v2 must expose a native Python API and calls to the forum HTTP client must be replaced. This means that in edx-platform, all calls to openedx.core.djangoapps.django_comment_common.comment_client.utils.perform_request must be replaced by a call to a corresponding forum.api.xxx function.

Forum v2 tests must also be migrated to accomodate for the new API.

[regisb]

See upstream PR: openedx/openedx-platform#35490

[regisb]

Am I correct in understanding that all that remains to close this issue is to convert the edx-platform unit tests?

[Faraz32123]

Am I correct in understanding that all that remains to close this issue is to convert the edx-platform unit tests?

yes, we can also create a new issue for that and close this one?

[regisb]

Yes, please do that.

[Faraz32123]

closing this issue in favor of this working PR in edx-platform as Native python APIs have been created and migrated in edx-platform.