grade_grades_raw
added grade_item object
added load_grade_item()
added call to grade_item->flag_for_update() when object is inserted, deleted or updated
grade_grades_final
added grade_item object
added load_grade_item()
grade_grades_text
added grade_item object
added load_grade_item()
grade_item
added qualifies_for_update()
added call to grade_category->flag_for_update() when object is inserted, deleted or updated (only when qualifies_for_update() is true)
However since I have made this last set of changes, the unit tests are performing extremely slow, and several of them fail. I suspect that there is a serious performance issue involved in using objects too heavily, instead of performing more SQL queries, especially when updates are concerned. Often a complete object is SELECTed before it is amended in an object form then UPDATEd.
In the next iteration I will look at this seriously, and put together some tests with thousands of users and many grade_items, to see how well the API responds.
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