[MDL-43742] Create API for recent activity - Moodle Tracker

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Affected Branches:
MOODLE_27_STABLE
Pull from Repository:
git://github.com/marinaglancy/moodle.git
Pull Main Branch:
wip-~~MDL-43742~~-master
Pull Main Diff URL:
https://github.com/marinaglancy/moodle/compare/moodle:master...wip-MDL-43742-master

At the moment each module must define several callbacks:
xxx_get_recent_mod_activity
xxx_print_recent_mod_activity
xxx_print_recent_activity

this is

quite confusing,
there is a lot of code repetition because of almost identical functions for block and report
the results are returned mostly in HTML and there is no possibility to control what and how to display

Suggestion is to create a base class \core_course\recentactivity that modules can extend to implement their logic

has a non-specific relationship to

MDL-41285 Convert recent activity block to use new Events API

has been marked as being related by

MDL-19065 Proposed Module API change to enable RSS feed for recent activity

MDL-58440 We now have (more) duplicate, incomplete, confusing APIs for recent activity

MDL-130 Information Shown in Recent Activity should be selectable by Teacher

MDL-52221 Highlight new Activities/Documents in a Course

is blocked by

MDL-40843 Bugs in several modules when accessing groups in recent activity report

MDL-44078 Proposal: API standard in Moodle that uses autoloading (hooks)

will help resolve

MDL-30781 Make course/lib.php::print_recent_activity() and associated callbacks deprecated

MDL-56861 Recent activity report markup

(2 is blocked by, 2 will help resolve)

Participants:: Frédéric Massart, Marina Glancy, Matt Porritt, Nadav Kavalerchik