New Web Services for updating a forum post (or a discussion topic post)

Test for regressions in the web site

1. Create or use a course with one user enrolled as teacher (t1) and a couple of users enrolled as students (s1 and s2)
2. Create a forum in that course. Configure it so discussion subscriptions are optional.
3. As admin, ensure that the maxeditingtime for posts global setting (Site security settings) is set to 30 minutes
4. Now, log in as teacher t1 and create a new discussion in that forum (using the advance mode) marking as selected the "Pinned" option and also the "Discussion subscription one"
5. Confirm that:
   • After saving the message is "pinned" in the main discussions view and it says that you are subscribed.
6. Access to the forum discussion and edit the post, this time uncheck the "Pinned" and "Discussion subscription option"
7. Confirm that:
   • After saving the message, in the main discussion view, you don't see any more the post "Pinned" and the message that says that you are subscribed
8. Now, as s1, access to the forum
9. Reply to the discussion created by t1 using the "Advance mode" changing the Subject and writting some text in the Message field
10. Confirm that:
    • The post with the reply is created properly
11. Now, still as s1 click "Edit" at the bottom of the post you just created
12. Edit the post changing the "Subject" and the "Message" and uncheck the "Discussion subscription option"
13. Save the changes and confirm that:
    • The post was updated correctly and it displays the new subject and message
14. Edit again the message this time adding attachments and some images in the message text
15. Save the changes and confirm that:
    • The post was updated correctly and you can see the image in the text and the attachments
16. As admin, now change the "maxeditingtime" global setting (in Site security settings) and set it to 1 minute
17. Wait for a minute and log-in as s1 again
18. Check that within the forum discussion, you don't see the "edit" option anymore in the s1 created posts

Test for web services

1. As admin, enable "Mobile services": Site administration ► Mobile app ► Mobile settings
2. Create a Token in the mobile app service for t1, s1 and s2
   • Click on Site administration ► Plugins ► Web services ► Manage tokens
3. Create a NEW forum in that course
4. As admin, ensure that the maxeditingtime for posts global setting (Site security settings) is set to 30 minutes
5. Now, log in as teacher t1 and create a new discussion in the forum used in the previout set of tests.
6. Open the console an execute this new curl request, replacing wstoken with the t1 token, the postid with the first post id of the discussion created a couple of steps ago. (You can get the post id just from the "Edit" link)

   curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=mod_forum_get_discussion_post&wstoken=3af67232a7596ceb658df4db329e5ad6&postid=53' | python -m "json.tool"

7. Confirm you receive the complete post information. Including a "capabilities->edit" field set to true
8. Now, log-in as s1 in the web site and reply to the discussion. Do not include any attachment or images in the message body
9. Open the console an execute this new curl request, replacing wstoken with the s1 token, the postid with the one you just created and the site url with yours.

   curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=mod_forum_prepare_draft_area_for_post&wstoken=3af67232a7596ceb658df4db329e5ad6&postid=54&area=attachment' | python -m "json.tool"

10. Confirm that as part of the response you receive a "draftitemid". Please, copy this value somewhere (you'll need it later)
11. Now, copy in your computer home or document folder an existing pdf document (any), renaming it to "document.pdf"
12. Open the console an execute this new curl request, replacing token with the s1 token, the itemid parameter with the draftitemid value your copied before and the path of your "document.pdf" document with your local path

    curl -i -F name=document.pdf -F filedata=@/Users/juanleyvadelgado/Documents/document.pdf "http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/upload.php?token=3af67232a7596ceb658df4db329e5ad6&itemid=421435137"

13. Confirm you receive as response a JSON structure with some data including the file name
14. Open the console an execute this new curl request, replacing wstoken with the s1 token, the postid with the one you used in the previous request, and the value of the "options[4][value]" parameter with the "draftitemid" you used in the previous request the site url with yours.

    curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=mod_forum_update_discussion_post&wstoken=3af67232a7596ceb658df4db329e5ad6&postid=53&subject=SubjectTestUpdated&message=MessageTestUpdated&messageformat=1&options[0][name]=inlineattachmentsid&options[0][value]=-1&options[1][name]=attachmentsid&options[1][value]=-1' | python -m "json.tool"

15. Confirm that you receive a response with status set to true
16. Log-in into the web site as s1, open the updated post and check that now in the subject you see "SubjectTestUpdated", in the message body you see "MessageTestUpdated" and you see the document.pdf as an attachment