Some extra options have been added to the activitychoosertabmode setting, to let
admins decide when to display the Recommended tab.
Apart from that, one of these values have be set as default value for this setting,
as suggested by the UX/PX teams. So the Starter and Full presets have been updated
too with the new values.
In 4.0- version each time the course page is loaded the file handlers
are calculate din the backend and injected directly into JS using a json
encapsulation. With this new webservice the handlers can be obtained
directly from the frontend when needed.
I have opted not to go through any deprecation process for this as there
is not really much we can do about it anyway. There is no loss of
functionality - just a change of where things are served from.
The Yahoo! CDN was only used for http connections as it did not
officially support SSL, and it is not guaranteed to continue existing in
the future since YUI has been deprecated for a number of years now.
Right now we have the information only in docs:
- https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Core_APIs
- https://moodledev.io/docs/apis
And, in fact, we are crawling those pages to get the information
from various tools (moodlecheck, CiBoT...). Obviously, that's far
from ideal, the source only has the current list of APIs, and
there isn't much information there but the names.
So we are moving the source of information to be in core, so it
can be modified between branches, and contains richer information:
- The component the API belongs to, usually a subsystem or core.
- If the API can be used as level 2 namespace.
- If the API can be used as level 2 namespace out from its component.
Note that all that information has NO USES right now in core (and maybe
never will), but tools/checkers will benefit enormously by having that
information at hand, so we can check for namespaces, categories and
other bits way better.
Also, once we have this, the APIs dev documents linked above, surely
can be improved by being automatically generated and include all the
meta-information available.
It also includes a very basic json schema validating the basis. It can
be tried online @ https://www.jsonschemavalidator.net , or any other
tool. PHP requires extra libraries to be able to perform the validation.
Covered with unit tests, both api-related functions and structure validation.
Normal removal procedure:
- Remove the plugin completely from core.
- Document it in the webservices upgrade.txt file.
- Add a core upgrade step to proceed to remove any configuration
if the plugin has not been re-installed manually.
Plus:
- Remove a few remaining uses in the hub/sites registration scripts,
that were moved from xmlrpc to hand.made rest calls by MDL-31436
(Moodle 3.4.1 and up) and never removed then.
- Remove the php-xmlrpc extension as a recommendation in composer.
- Remove "xmlrpc" from various comments, trivial cleanup.
Note:
- While working on this MDL-76078 has been created about to
fix a serious design problem detected (it does not affect
functionality). That's out from this issue scope.
This allows admins to configure whether contact site support is
available to everyone, authenticated users, or nobody.
The behat testing checks linked and direct access for each setting,
as well as adding testing that the support page override works as
expected.
