LC Course Prototype

openedx_learning/api/authoring.py

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 from ..apps.authoring.collections.api import *
 from ..apps.authoring.components.api import *
 from ..apps.authoring.contents.api import *
+from ..apps.authoring.courses.api import *
+from ..apps.authoring.outline_roots.api import *
 from ..apps.authoring.publishing.api import *
 from ..apps.authoring.sections.api import *
 from ..apps.authoring.subsections.api import *

openedx_learning/api/authoring_models.py

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 from ..apps.authoring.collections.models import *
 from ..apps.authoring.components.models import *
 from ..apps.authoring.contents.models import *
+from ..apps.authoring.courses.models import *
+from ..apps.authoring.outline_roots.models import *
 from ..apps.authoring.publishing.models import *
 from ..apps.authoring.sections.models import *
 from ..apps.authoring.subsections.models import *

openedx_learning/apps/authoring/courses/admin.py

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+"""
+Django admin for courses models
+"""
+from django.contrib import admin
+
+from openedx_learning.lib.admin_utils import ReadOnlyModelAdmin
+
+from .models import CatalogCourse, Course
+
+
+@admin.register(CatalogCourse)
+class CatalogCourseAdmin(ReadOnlyModelAdmin):
+    """
+    Django admin for CatalogCourse model
+    """
+
+
+@admin.register(Course)
+class CourseAdmin(ReadOnlyModelAdmin):
+    """
+    Django admin for Course [Run] model
+    """

openedx_learning/apps/authoring/courses/api.py

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+"""
+Low Level Courses and Course Runs API
+
+🛑 UNSTABLE: All APIs related to courses in Learning Core are unstable until
+they have parity with modulestore courses.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from datetime import datetime
+from logging import getLogger
+from typing import Any
+
+from django.db.transaction import atomic
+
+from ..outline_roots import api as outline_roots
+from .models import CatalogCourse, Course
+
+# The public API that will be re-exported by openedx_learning.apps.authoring.api
+# is listed in the __all__ entries below. Internal helper functions that are
+# private to this module should start with an underscore. If a function does not
+# start with an underscore AND it is not in __all__, that function is considered
+# to be callable only by other apps in the authoring package.
+__all__ = [
+    "create_course_and_run",
+    "create_run",
+]
+
+
+log = getLogger()
+
+
+def create_course_and_run(
+    org_id: str,
+    course_id: str,
+    run: str,
+    *,
+    learning_package_id: int,
+    title: str,
+    created: datetime,
+    created_by: int | None,
+    initial_blank_version: bool = True,
+) -> Course:
+    """
+    Create a new course (CatalogCourse and Course / run).
+
+    If initial_blank_version is True (default), the course outline will have an
+    existing empty version 1, which can be used for building a course from
+    scratch. For other use cases like importing a course, it could be better to
+    avoid creating an empty version and jump right to creating an initial
+    version with the imported content, or even importing the entire version
+    history. In that case, set initial_blank_version to False. Note that the
+    provided "title" is ignored in that case.
+    """
+    outline_root_args: dict[str, Any] = {
+        "learning_package_id": learning_package_id,
+        "key": f'course-root-v1:{org_id}+{course_id}+{run}',  # See docstring of create_outline_root_and_version()
+        "created": created,
+        "created_by": created_by,
+    }
+    with atomic(savepoint=False):
+        if initial_blank_version:
+            outline_root, _version = outline_roots.create_outline_root_and_version(**outline_root_args, title=title)
+        else:
+            outline_root = outline_roots.create_outline_root(**outline_root_args)
+        catalog_course = CatalogCourse.objects.create(
+            org_id=org_id,
+            course_id=course_id,
+        )
+        # Create the course run
+        course = Course.objects.create(
+            catalog_course=catalog_course,
+            learning_package_id=learning_package_id,
+            run=run,
+            outline_root=outline_root,
+            source_course=None,
+        )
+    return course
+
+
+def create_run(
+    source_course: Course,
+    new_run: str,
+    *,
+    created: datetime,
+) -> Course:
+    """
+    Create a new run of the given course, with the same content.
+    """
+    raise NotImplementedError

openedx_learning/apps/authoring/courses/apps.py

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+"""
+Django metadata for the Low Level Courses and Course Runs Django application.
+"""
+from django.apps import AppConfig
+
+
+class CoursesConfig(AppConfig):
+    """
+    Configuration for the Courses Django application.
+    """
+
+    name = "openedx_learning.apps.authoring.courses"
+    verbose_name = "Learning Core > Authoring > Courses"
+    default_auto_field = "django.db.models.BigAutoField"
+    label = "oel_courses"

openedx_learning/apps/authoring/courses/migrations/0001_initial.py

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+# Generated by Django 4.2.19 on 2025-05-15 23:46
+
+import django.db.models.deletion
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+import openedx_learning.lib.fields
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    initial = True
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('oel_publishing', '0008_alter_draftchangelogrecord_options_and_more'),
+        ('oel_outline_roots', '0001_initial'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='CatalogCourse',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.BigAutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('org_id', openedx_learning.lib.fields.MultiCollationCharField(db_collations={'mysql': 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci', 'sqlite': 'NOCASE'}, help_text="The org ID. For a course with full course key 'course-v1:MITx+SC1x+1T2025', this would be 'MITx'", max_length=100)),
+                ('course_id', openedx_learning.lib.fields.MultiCollationCharField(db_collations={'mysql': 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci', 'sqlite': 'NOCASE'}, help_text="The course ID. For a course with full course key 'course-v1:MITx+SC1x+1T2025', this would be 'SC1x'", max_length=100)),
+            ],
+            options={
+                'verbose_name': 'Catalog Course',
+                'verbose_name_plural': 'Catalog Courses',
+            },
+        ),
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='Course',
+            fields=[
+                ('run', openedx_learning.lib.fields.MultiCollationCharField(db_collations={'mysql': 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci', 'sqlite': 'NOCASE'}, help_text="The course run. For a course with full course key 'course-v1:MITx+SC1x+1T2025', this would be '1T2025'.", max_length=100)),
+                ('outline_root', models.OneToOneField(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.PROTECT, primary_key=True, serialize=False, to='oel_outline_roots.outlineroot')),
+                ('catalog_course', models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='oel_courses.catalogcourse')),
+                ('learning_package', models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='oel_publishing.learningpackage')),
+                ('source_course', models.ForeignKey(blank=True, help_text='If this course run is a re-run, this field indicates which previous run it was based on.', null=True, on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.SET_NULL, to='oel_courses.course')),
+            ],
+            options={
+                'verbose_name': 'Course Run',
+                'verbose_name_plural': 'Course Runs',
+            },
+        ),
+        migrations.AddConstraint(
+            model_name='catalogcourse',
+            constraint=models.UniqueConstraint(fields=('org_id', 'course_id'), name='oel_courses_uniq_catalog_course_org_course_id'),
+        ),
+        migrations.AddConstraint(
+            model_name='course',
+            constraint=models.UniqueConstraint(fields=('catalog_course', 'run'), name='oel_courses_uniq_course_catalog_course_run'),
+        ),
+    ]

openedx_learning/apps/authoring/courses/models.py

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+"""
+These models form very low-level representations of Courses and Course Runs.
+
+They don't hold much data on their own, but other apps can attach more useful
+data to them.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from logging import getLogger
+
+from django.db import models
+from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
+
+from ....lib.fields import case_insensitive_char_field
+from ..outline_roots.models import OutlineRoot
+from ..publishing.models import LearningPackage
+
+logger = getLogger()
+
+__all__ = [
+    "CatalogCourse",
+    "Course",
+]
+
+
+class CatalogCourse(models.Model):
+    """
+    A catalog course is a collection of course runs.
+
+    So for example, "Stanford Python 101" is a catalog course, and "Stanford
+    Python 101 Spring 2025" is a course run of that course. Almost all
+    interesting use cases are based around the course run - e.g. enrollment
+    happens in a course run, content is authored in a course run, etc. But
+    sometimes we need to deal with the related runs of the same course, so this
+    model exists for those few times we need a reference to all of them.
+
+    A CatalogCourse is not part of a particular learning package, because
+    although we encourage each course's runs to be in the same learning package,
+    that's neither a requirement nor always possible.
+    """
+
+    # Let's preserve case but avoid having org IDs that differ only in case.
+    org_id = case_insensitive_char_field(
+        null=False,
+        blank=False,
+        max_length=100,
+        help_text=_(
+            "The org ID. For a course with full course key 'course-v1:MITx+SC1x+1T2025', this would be 'MITx'"
+        ),
+    )
+
+    # Let's preserve case but avoid having course IDs that differ only in case.
+    course_id = case_insensitive_char_field(
+        null=False,
+        blank=False,
+        max_length=100,
+        help_text=_(
+            "The course ID. For a course with full course key 'course-v1:MITx+SC1x+1T2025', this would be 'SC1x'"
+        ),
+    )
+
+    class Meta:
+        verbose_name = "Catalog Course"
+        verbose_name_plural = "Catalog Courses"
+        constraints = [
+            models.UniqueConstraint(
+                fields=["org_id", "course_id"],
+                name="oel_courses_uniq_catalog_course_org_course_id",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+
+class Course(models.Model):
+    """
+    A course [run] is a specific instance of a catalog course.
+
+    In general, when we use the term "course" it refers to a Course Run.
+
+    So for example, "Stanford Python 101" is a catalog course, and "Stanford
+    Python 101 Spring 2025" is a Course Run.
+
+    A Course Run is part of a learning package. Multiple course runs from the
+    same catalog course can be part of the same learning package so that they
+    can be more efficient (de-duplicating common data and assets). However, they
+    are not required to be part of the same learning package, particularly when
+    imported from legacy course representations.
+
+    A Course Run is also a Learning Context.
+
+    This model is called "Course" instead of "Course Run" for two reasons:
+      (1) Because 99% of the time we use the term "course" in the code we are
+          referring to a course run, so this is more consistent; and
+      (2) Multiple versions of a catalog course may exist for reasons other than
+          runs; for example, CCX may result in many Course variants of the same
+          CatalogCourse - these aren't exactly "runs" but may still use separate
+          instances of this model. TODO: validate this?
+
+    This model is not versioned nor publishable. It also doesn't have much data,
+    including even the name of the course. All useful data is available via
+    versioned, related models like CourseMetadata (in edx-platform) or
+    OutlineRoot. The name/title of the course is stored as the 'title' field of
+    the OutlineRootVersion.PublishableEntityVersion.
+    """
+    catalog_course = models.ForeignKey(CatalogCourse, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
+    learning_package = models.ForeignKey(LearningPackage, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
+    source_course = models.ForeignKey(
+        "Course",
+        null=True,
+        blank=True,
+        on_delete=models.SET_NULL,
+        help_text=_(
+            "If this course run is a re-run, this field indicates which previous run it was based on."
+            # This field may have other meanings, e.g. for CCX courses in the future.
+        ),
+    )
+
+    run = case_insensitive_char_field(  # Let's preserve case but avoid having run IDs that differ only in case.
+        null=False,
+        blank=False,
+        max_length=100,
+        help_text=_(
+            "The course run. For a course with full course key 'course-v1:MITx+SC1x+1T2025', this would be '1T2025'."
+        ),
+    )
+
+    # The outline root defines the content of this course run.
+    # It's either a list of Sections, a list of Subsections, or a list of Units.
+    outline_root = models.OneToOneField(
+        OutlineRoot,
+        on_delete=models.PROTECT,
+        primary_key=True,
+    )
+
+    class Meta:
+        verbose_name = "Course Run"
+        verbose_name_plural = "Course Runs"
+        constraints = [
+            models.UniqueConstraint(
+                # Regardless of which learning package the run is located in, each [catalog course + run] is unique.
+                fields=["catalog_course", "run"],
+                name="oel_courses_uniq_course_catalog_course_run",
+            ),
+        ]

openedx_learning/apps/authoring/outline_roots/admin.py

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+"""
+Django admin for outline roots models
+"""
+from django.contrib import admin
+from django.utils.safestring import SafeText
+
+from openedx_learning.lib.admin_utils import ReadOnlyModelAdmin, model_detail_link
+
+from .models import OutlineRoot
+
+
+@admin.register(OutlineRoot)
+class OutlineRootAdmin(ReadOnlyModelAdmin):
+    """
+    Very minimal interface... just direct the admin user's attention towards the related Container model admin.
+    """
+    list_display = ["outline_root_id", "key"]
+    fields = ["see"]
+    readonly_fields = ["see"]
+
+    def outline_root_id(self, obj: OutlineRoot) -> int:
+        return obj.pk
+
+    def key(self, obj: OutlineRoot) -> SafeText:
+        return model_detail_link(obj.container, obj.container.key)
+
+    def see(self, obj: OutlineRoot) -> SafeText:
+        return self.key(obj)