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  • Implements a new API to get the summary preview of a migration given a library key and a source key.
  • Which edX user roles will this change impact? Common user roles is "Developer".

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@ChrisChV ChrisChV marked this pull request as draft December 24, 2025 23:36
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unsupportedBlocksChildren = fetch_block_types(
[
f'context_key = "{source_key}"',
f'breadcrumbs.usage_key IN [{quoted_keys}]'
],
)
# Final unsupported blocks count
unsupported_blocks_count = len(unsupported_blocks) + unsupportedBlocksChildren["estimatedTotalHits"]
unsupported_percentage = (unsupported_blocks_count / total_blocks) * 100
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@ChrisChV As per latest requirements, we need to ignore children counts from the total counts and percentage. So we can skip this part. You'll still need to fetch this data to subtract the children count from total block counts.

See openedx/frontend-app-authoring#2525 (comment) and the related PR: openedx/frontend-app-authoring#2774

@ChrisChV ChrisChV marked this pull request as ready for review December 30, 2025 16:37
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@ChrisChV Looks good!

  • I tested this: Played around with the rest api.
  • I read through the code
  • I checked for accessibility issues
  • Includes documentation

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@mphilbrick211 mphilbrick211 moved this from Needs Triage to In Eng Review in Contributions Jan 5, 2026
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Looks good; I just have some questions/comments to discuss before we merge.

account for a more advanced summary.
"""
# Get all containers and components from the source key
blocks = get_all_blocks_from_context(str(source_key), ["block_type", "block_id"])
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So far, I think we've tried to avoid depending on Meilisearch for any of the content library python APIs / migration APIs / etc. Meilisearch is used by the frontend to fetch content, but you can use all the new content library APIs without Meilisearch running, if you wanted to. So this marks a change from that, and we should mention in the docstring that this particular API depends on the search index. Since it's just a "preview" API, I think that's fine, but it would be better if it worked without Meilisearch.

That's also a bit problematic because the actual migration doesn't use the search index, so if the search index is out of date, then "preview" won't exactly match the migration.

Usually I would prefer to implement a preview API by using the exact same "migrate" API but without actually making any changes. I guess that's too slow for our purposes here? Or did you go this route because it's easier to get the whole list of IDs for any context this way? Whatever the rationale is, please document it here.

Is there a risk that in the future, we'll make some changes to how the migration API works, and forget to update this preview API, so they'll no longer match?

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I guess that's too slow for our purposes here? Or did you go this route because it's easier to get the whole list of IDs for any context this way?

It was for both reasons. It was easier to replicate the same queries and calculations used on the frontend. And yes, I do have that concern; won't it be very slow to do a "migration" for each preview?

Is there a risk that in the future, we'll make some changes to how the migration API works, and forget to update this preview API, so they'll no longer match?

In this respect, there is indeed a risk. It has already happened with the library block limit.

Lazily yields all blocks for a given context key using Meilisearch pagination.
Meilisearch works with limits of 1000 maximum; ensuring we obtain all blocks
requires making several queries.
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"""
This data may not always be 100% accurate / up to date because it's based
on the search index, so this should only be used for analysis/estimation
purposes.
"""


def fetch_block_types(extra_filter: Filter | None = None):
"""
Fetch the block types facet distribution for the search results.
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Please include an example of the return type and how to query for a single course/context in the docstring, because it's not super obvious from the description if you're not used to working with these search APIs.

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