We can switch the cache to session level if we are able to purge
different users caches, not only the one that belongs to the user
updating a grade category.
Introducing both APIs in moodle along with:
- search_box widget to add a tiny search box
- admin settings with setup steps helper
- cache for search results
- template for a search result
- php unit stuff
Many thanks to Tomasz Muras, Prateek Sachan and Daniel Neis for their contributions, for starting this development
and for pushing for it to be completed. Also thanks to other contributors: Jonathan Harker and eugeneventer.
Includes:
* update checker refactored to \core\update\ namespace
* plugininfo classes refactored to \core\plugininfo\ namespace
* plugin_manager renamed to core_plugin_manager
* redirect back to original page after plugin uninstall
* fixed assign subplugin uninstall
* move assign subplugins under the assignment in admin tree
* fixed plugininfo for all question related plugin types
* auth uninstall support
* added missing block dependencies
* added theme uninstall
* subplugin types are following the plugin on plugin overview page
* several performance improvements in plugin manager
* new warnigns when plugininfo are outdated or missing
* multiple fixes and other improvements
This patch includes:
* version column removed from modules table, now using standard config, this allows decimal version for modules
* version column removed from block table, now using standard config, this allows decimal version for blocks
* module version.php can safely use $plugins instead of module
* new plugin_manager bulk caching, this should help with MUC performance when logged in as admin
* all missing plugins are now in plugin overview (previously only blocks and modules)
* simplified code and improved coding style
* reworked plugin_manager unit tests - now using real plugins instead of mocks
* unit tests now fail if any plugin does not contain proper version.php file
* allow uninstall of deleted filters
Includes:
* no more hacky reloads, everything is written only once and kept until cache reset
* lang menu list is now cached in MUC
* both string and lang menu caches are compatible with local caches on cluster nodes
* config-dist.php cleanup
The improvements include:
* HTMLPurifier cache is stored in localcachedir
* allowobjectembed changes are not ignored any more
* the cache keys include revision and all options which makes
this suitable for local caches on cluster nodes
* unchanged test is replaced by "true" value which should
significantly improve performance
* removal of purge_all_caches() hack for directory recreation
* comments and coding style cleanup
Better performance, more reliable, completely self contained,
more validation and full backwards compatibility.
This will also allow us to implement ignoring of plugins.
- Course categories caches are purged by event now
- session cache has additional 10 minutes ttl to clear itself and accomodate for permission changes that do not trigger event purging
- additional request-level cache for coursecat::get()
- We store only children of one category in one cache key
- Function coursecat::get_children() can return results sorted and/or paginated. Added tests
- Retrieve and cache only often-used fields of course category
- Removed function coursecat::get_all_visible() as potentially causing performance issues
- removed function coursecat::get_all_parents() as ineffective and unnecessary, replaced with get_parents()
- retrieve all fields from course_categories when unretrieved field is accessed
Also some code improvements:
- rename functions starting with _ , rename arguments, etc.
Data cached in these caches change only at well defined places (during
need for upgrade checks, at the plugin management screen etc). So it
makes sense to use proper application caches instead of request caches.
This saves couple of database queries at almost every page in Moodle.
