dirname() is a slow function compared with __DIR__ and using
'/../'. Moodle has a large number of legacy files that are included
each time a page loads and is not able to use an autoloader as it is
functional code. This allows those required includes to perform as
best as possible in this situation.
Previously, the Check button was often shown disabled when it
could not be used (e.g. when the question was finished, or when an
interactive question was in the try-again state). Eventually we
realised it was better usability to hide it in these cases.
Note that when a teacher reviews an in-progress quiz attempt, they will
see a disabled Check button if the student doing the quiz can see the
button.
Comment format (FORMAT_...) was correctly being processed when the
manual grading happened as the result of a form submission. It was only
when done using the question_usage or question_attempt API method that
there was no way to specify the format. (Although I think the only place
this API as used was in the unit tests.)
Note that question_attempt::manual_grade API had to change, but I don't
think that is a real API change. Calling code should be using
question_usage::question_attempt, which is backwards compatible.
Note that now, if you don't pass format, then no error is generated, but
a developer debugging message is generated.
These changes move the logic to the behaviour class, which is how things
should be.
It also makes it easier to re-use the code that displays the messages
like "Marks for this submission: 1.00/1.00. Accounting for previous
tries, this gives 0.33/1.00." in other places.
To try to make it clearer what is going on, I introduced a new class
qbehaviour_adaptive_mark_details to hold and document the data that the
behaviour needs to return, and the renderer can base its display on.
As far as my testing can tell (and there are new unit tests), this
commit does not change the existing behaviour.
This commit also replaces all the string concatenation that is going on,
which should help translators. At the moment, a few of the old strings
are still in the language file, and are used in the unit tests to verify
that the behaviour has not changed.
Thanks to Oleg Sychev for making a helpful suggestion about the API.
1/ type/match/tests/walkthrough_test.php - tests are failing randomly, looks like some weird randomisation is going on there - see TODOs
2/ type/multianswer/tests/upgradelibnewqe_test.php contains invalid expected value - see TODO
Russell Smith