Re: [edx-code] XBlock and RESTful architecture

2017-02-28 Thread Armando Fox
At one point, wasn't there an XBlock that implemented the client side of an LTI connection, so that the server side of the XBlock could be written as an LTI Service endpoint? If the endpoint is secured, the LTI call could embed whatever arbitrary information the client-side code can extract

Re: [edx-code] XBlock and RESTful architecture

2017-02-28 Thread Ned Batchelder
I see! That page was last edited 3.5 years ago (David Baumgold edited this page on Oct 28, 2013). It's not useful. I will remove it. Sorry for the confusion. --Ned. On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 5:47 PM, chemseddine zaafrane < chemseddine.zaafr...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks for your quick reply

Re: [edx-code] XBlock and RESTful architecture

2017-02-27 Thread chemseddine zaafrane
thanks for your quick reply Ned, however i found this wiki that seems to talk about a RESTful XBlocks but i couldn't get a proper idea about it Le lundi 27 février 2017 23:23:23 UTC+1, Ned Batchelder a écrit : > >

Re: [edx-code] XBlock and RESTful architecture

2017-02-27 Thread Ned Batchelder
Currently, XBlock is only an in-process Python API. We've long wanted to make them remotable, so that an XBlock could execute on another machine, or in another language, or in another security context. But that hasn't been built yet. --Ned. On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:53 PM, chemseddine zaafrane