tutor-discovery/README.rst
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Course Discovery plugin for `Tutor <https://docs.tutor.overhang.io>`_
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This is a plugin for `Tutor <https://docs.tutor.overhang.io>`_ that integrates the `Course Discovery <https://github.com/edx/course-discovery/>`__ application in an Open edX platform. it is useful for integration with, for example, `Ecommerce <https://github.com/edx/ecommerce>`__ or an external course catalog.
.. image:: https://overhang.io/images/clients/e-ducation.jpg
:alt: E-ducation
:target: https://www.e-ducation.cn/
This plugin was developed and open sourced to the community thanks to the generous support of `E-ducation <https://www.e-ducation.cn/>`_. Thank you!
Installation
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This plugin requires tutor>=3.6.0. If you have installed tutor from a pre-compiled binary, it already comes bundled with the discovery plugin. Otherwise::
pip install tutor-discovery
Then, to enable this plugin, run::
tutor plugins enable discovery
You will have to re-generate the environment::
tutor config save
The, run migrations::
tutor local init
This last step is unnecessary if you run instead ``tutor local quickstart``.
Operations
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Creating a user
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The discovery user interface will be available at http://discovery.localhost for a local instance, and at ``DISCOVERY_HOST`` (by default: http(s)://discovery.<your lms host>) in production. In order to run commands from the UI, a user must be created::
tutor local run discovery ./manage.py createsuperuser
Then, you must login with this user at http://discovery.localhost/admin.
Alternatively, you can login with oauth2 using a pre-existing user created on the LMS/CMS by accessing http(s)://discovery.<your lms host>/login. To do so, the proper domain names must exist and point to the production server.
Re-indexing courses
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
::
tutor local run discovery ./manage.py refresh_course_metadata
tutor local run discovery ./manage.py update_index --disable-change-limit
Caching programs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In order to cache programs in the LMS, you will need to manually create a catalog integration. This step should be performed just once::
tutor local run lms ./manage.py lms create_catalog_integrations --enabled \
--internal_api_url=http://discovery:8000 \
--service_username=lms_catalog_service_user
Then::
tutor local run lms ./manage.py lms cache_programs
Debugging
---------
To debug the course discovery service, you are encouraged to mount the course-discovery repo from the host in the development container:
tutor dev runserver -v ~/projets/openedx/repos/course-discovery/:/openedx/discovery discovery
You can then access the development server at http://localhost:8381. Feel free to add breakpoints (``import pdb; pdb.set_trace()``) anywhere in your source code to debug your application.
License
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This work is licensed under the terms of the `GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) <https://github.com/overhangio/tutor/blob/master/LICENSE.txt>`_.