platform-plugin-aspects 0.10.0

Description:

platformpluginaspects 0.10.0

Platform Plugin Aspects

Purpose
This repository holds various Aspects plugins for the Open edX platform.


Sinks
Sinks are components that listen for events and store them in ClickHouse. The
events are emitted by the Open edX platform via Open edX events or Django signals.

Available Sinks

CourseOverviewSink - Listens for the COURSE_PUBLISHED event and stores the
course structure data through XBlockSink in ClickHouse.
ExternalIdSink - Listens for the post_save Django signal on the ExternalId
model and stores the external id data in ClickHouse.
UserProfile - Listens for the post_save Django signal on the UserProfile
model and stores the user profile data in ClickHouse.
UserRetirementSink - Listen for the USER_RETIRE_LMS_MISC Django signal and
remove the user PII information from ClickHouse.
CourseEnrollmentSink - Listen for the ENROLL_STATUS_CHANGE event and stores
the course enrollment data.



Commands
In addition to being an event listener, this package provides the following commands:

dump_data_to_clickhouse - This command allows bulk export of the data from the Sinks.
Allows bootstrapping a new data platform or backfilling lost or missing data.

python manage.py cms dump_data_to_clickhouse


load_test_tracking_events - This command allows loading test tracking events into
ClickHouse. This is useful for testing the ClickHouse connection to measure the performance of the
different data pipelines such as Vector, Event Bus (Redis and Kafka), and Celery.
Do not use this command in production as it will generate a large amount of data
and will slow down the system.

python manage.py cms load_test_tracking_events


monitor_load_test_tracking - Monitors the load test tracking script and saves
output for later analysis.

python manage.py cms monitor_load_test_tracking





Instructor Dashboard Integration
Dashboards from Aspects are integrated into the Instructor Dashboard via Superset Embedded SDK.
See Configuration for more details.



Getting Started with Development
Please see the Open edX documentation for guidance on Python development in this repo.


Deploying
The Platform Plugin Aspects component is a django plugin which doesn’t
need independent deployment. Therefore, its setup is reasonably straightforward.
First, it needs to be added to your service requirements, and then it will be
installed alongside requirements of the service.


Configuration

Instructor Dashboard Configuration
The Instructor Dashboard integration uses the Open edX Filters. To learn more about
the filters, see the Open edX Filters documentation. Make sure to configure the
superset pipeline into the filter as follows:

OPEN_EDX_FILTERS_CONFIG = {
"org.openedx.learning.instructor.dashboard.render.started.v1": {
"fail_silently": False,
"pipeline": [
"platform_plugin_superset.extensions.filters.AddSupersetTab",
]
},
}


SUPERSET_CONFIG - This setting is used to configure the Superset Embedded SDK.
The configuration is a dictionary that contains the following keys:


internal_service_url - The URL of the Superset instance (useful in development, omit in production).
service_url - The URL of the Superset instance.
username - The username of the Superset user.
password - The password of the Superset user.



ASPECTS_INSTRUCTOR_DASHBOARDS - This setting is used to configure the dashboards
that will be displayed in the Instructor Dashboard. The configuration is a list of
dictionaries that contains the following keys:


name - The name of the dashboard.
slug - The slug of the dashboard.
uuid - The UUID of the dashboard.
allow_translations - A boolean value that determines if the dashboard
is translated in Aspects.



SUPERSET_EXTRA_FILTERS_FORMAT - This setting is used to configure the extra filters
that will be applied to the dashboards. The configuration is a list of strings that
can be formatted with the following variables:


user - The user object.
course - The course object.



SUPERSET_DASHBOARD_LOCALES - This setting is used to configure the available locales
for the dashboards. The configuration is a list of supported locales by Aspects.



Event Sink Configuration

EVENT_SINK_CLICKHOUSE_BACKEND_CONFIG - This setting is used to configure the ClickHouse
connection. The configuration is a dictionary that contains the following keys:


url - The host of the ClickHouse instance.
database - The database name.
username - The username of the ClickHouse user.
password - The password of the ClickHouse user.
timeout_secs - The timeout in seconds for the ClickHouse connection.



EVENT_SINK_CLICKHOUSE_PII_MODELS - This setting is used to configure the models that
contain PII information. The configuration is a list of strings that contain the
table names where the PII information is stored.
EVENT_SINK_CLICKHOUSE_MODEL_CONFIG - This setting is used to provide compatibility
with multiple Open edX models. The configuration is a dictionary that contains the
following a key per model that contains a dictionary with the following keys:


module - The module path of the model.
model - The model class name.




Event Sinks are disabled by default. To enable them, you need to enable the following
waffle flag: event_sink_clickhouse.{{model_name}}.enabled where model name is the name
of the model that you want to enable. Or, you can enable them via settings by setting
EVENT_SINK_CLICKHOUSE_{{model_name}}_ENABLED to True.



Getting Help

Documentation
PLACEHOLDER: Start by going through the documentation. If you need more help see below.
(TODO: Set up documentation)


More Help
If you’re having trouble, we have discussion forums at
https://discuss.openedx.org where you can connect with others in the
community.
Our real-time conversations are on Slack. You can request a Slack
invitation, then join our community Slack workspace.
For anything non-trivial, the best path is to open an issue in this
repository with as many details about the issue you are facing as you
can provide.
https://github.com/openedx/platform-plugin-aspects/issues
For more information about these options, see the Getting Help page.



License
Please see LICENSE.txt for details.


Contributing
Contributions are very welcome.
Please read How To Contribute for details.
This project is currently accepting all types of contributions, bug fixes,
security fixes, maintenance work, or new features. However, please make sure
to have a discussion about your new feature idea with the maintainers prior to
beginning development to maximize the chances of your change being accepted.
You can start a conversation by creating a new issue on this repo summarizing
your idea.


The Open edX Code of Conduct
All community members are expected to follow the Open edX Code of Conduct.


People
The assigned maintainers for this component and other project details may be
found in Backstage. Backstage pulls this data from the catalog-info.yaml
file in this repo.


Reporting Security Issues
Please do not report security issues in public. Please email [email protected].



Change Log

Unreleased


0.10.0 - 2024-06-17
Added

A sink for the course enrollment model.



0.9.7 - 2024-06-14
Fixes

0.9.6 introduced a bug in the CourseOverview sink that caused block sink to fail to import to ClickHouse, this fixes it.



0.9.6 - 2024-06-07
Fixes

The CourseOutline sink was not always ordering blocks correctly, leading to issues with blocks appearing in the wrong sections/subsection.



0.9.5 - 2024-05-24
Fixes

UserProfile sink now runs after the transaction is committed, preventing UserProfileNotFound errors and creation of rows in ClickHouse that don’t exist in MySQL in the case of a rollback.



0.9.4 - 2024-05-16
Fixes

Allow to serialize dates as strings in JSON.



0.9.3 - 2024-05-15
Fixes

Change wording of the “go to Superset” link, and make it optional.



0.9.2 - 2024-05-08
Fixes

Remove caching of Superset guest token to fix various display errors and token refresh edge cases.



0.9.1 - 2024-05-08
Fixes

Fix an ImportError in the Aspects Xblock on pre-Quince releases



0.9.0 - 2024-05-06
Added

Allow embedded dashboard tab names to be localized



0.8.0 - 2024-05-06
Added

Added tags to xblocks in course dump



0.7.4 - 2024-04-30
Fixed

Fixed Superset XBlock and default filters.



0.7.3 - 2024-04-30
Fixed

Fixed UUID generation for localized Superset assets, which caused embedded
dashboards to fail to load when localized.



0.7.2 - 2024-04-19
Fixed

Fixed cms url configuration



0.7.1 - 2024-04-17
Fixed

Fixed issue with embedded dashboards throwing javascript errors
Fixed issues with translated embedded dashboards erroring in Superset



0.7.0 - 2024-04-12
Added

Add endpoint for fetchGuestToken



0.6.0 - 2024-04-08
Added

Allow to embed translated Superset Dashboards.



0.5.0 - 2024-04-01
Added

Load testing and test monitoring scripts.



0.4.0 - 2024-03-18
Added

Embed multiple Superset Dashboards.



0.3.1 - 2024-03-14
Added

Fixed development server configuration.



0.3.0 – 2024-03-10
Added

Imported XBlock code from platform-plugin-superset



0.2.0 – 2024-03-05
Added

Imported code from event-sink-clickhouse.



0.1.0 – 2024-02-29
Added

First release on PyPI.