velochy
commented
9 years ago For reference, a working readResult function using _post_patched_request:
xml = generate_request_xml(message_id, 'readResult', sourced_id, None)
(_, content) = _post_patched_request(
PYLTI_CONFIG["consumers"],
key,
xml,
session['lis_outcome_service_url'],
'POST',
'application/xml',
)
is_success = "<imsx_codeMajor>success</imsx_codeMajor>" in content
if not is_success:
return None
from xml.etree import ElementTree
xml_tree = ElementTree.XML(content)
ns = {'ns0':'http://www.imsglobal.org/services/ltiv1p1/xsd/imsoms_v1p0'}
rscore = float(xml_tree.findtext('ns0:imsx_POXBody/ns0:readResultResponse/'+
'ns0:result/ns0:resultScore/ns0:textString',None,ns))
return rscore
The standard (http://www.imsglobal.org/LTI/v1p1p1/ltiIMGv1p1p1.html#_Toc330273035) specifies a few other types of interaction besides just posting the grade. 6.1.2 "readResult" for getting the grade from the LTI Consumer, for instance.
generating the message can be done with generate_request_xml setting operation to "readResult" but posting it with post_message will just yield "success" but not the actual grade
Currently, this can be worked around by calling the internal _post_patched_request directly but I feel this is more than somewhat hackish.
Would be happy to implement a fix to this if you explain how you want it in terms of architecture. My proposal would be to have post_message return either False when request fails but the response xml when it is successful, but there are quite a few other ways this issue could be approached.