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NOTE: Depends on: openedx/edx-when#347

Description

This PR adds a new Django management command seed_content_dates that extracts assignment due dates from the modulestore and populates the ContentDate table in the edx-when service.

Key Features

  • Command: python manage.py lms seed_content_dates
  • Backfills assignment due dates into ContentDate from course assignments in the modulestore.

Options

  • --course-id: Seed a specific course.
  • --org: Seed all courses for a specific organization.
  • --dry-run: Simulate processing without writing to the database.
  • --force-update: Overwrite existing ContentDate records instead of skipping.
  • --batch-size: Process assignments in batches (default: 100).

Example Usage

# Dry run for all courses
python manage.py lms seed_content_dates --dry-run

# Process a specific course
python manage.py lms seed_content_dates --course-id "course-v1:MITx+6.00x+2023_Fall"

# Process all courses for an organization
python manage.py lms seed_content_dates --org "MITx"

# Force update existing records
python manage.py lms seed_content_dates --force-update

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except ItemNotFoundError:
log.warning(f"Course not found in modulestore: {course_key}")
return 0, 0, 0, 0
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Perhaps make it default tuple a variable.


staff_user = User.objects.filter(is_staff=True).first()
if not staff_user:
return
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This should return a tuple.

self.stdout.write(
f"Processing assignment: {assignment.block_key}/{assignment.assignment_type} (due: {assignment.date})"
)
existing = when_models.ContentDate.objects.filter(
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Why check existing before checking if this is a forced update? If preserving the existing records is important, I'm not sure it is, I think you should fetch all existing records into the local data structure and check against it.

for i in range(0, len(assignments), self.batch_size):
batch = assignments[i: i + self.batch_size]

with transaction.atomic():
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Should this be around all the batches instead?

self.force_update = options["force_update"]
self.batch_size = options["batch_size"]

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
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You get the logger above at line 20, what is this for?

updated = 0
skipped = 0

for assignment in assignments:
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Unchecked arg assignments.

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help = "Extract assignment dates from modulestore and populate ContentDate table"
dry_run = False
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There's a mix of defaults here and in the add_argument section. Is anything needed beyond what you already have in hand()?

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