Fix an error with users with the moodle/site:viewfullnames capability
in a course context (like teachers), to display properly the full
names in pages like the participants one.
Previously the member functions get_initial_first and get_initial_last of flexible_table were public but deprecated due to being no
longer used. Now they are used by print_initials_bar and made protected. That allows classes deriving from flexible_table to access
the first and last name initials without having to use deprecated methods.
The new recordset support for Postgres requires transactions and
will cause errors if recordsets are not closed correctly. This
commit fixes problems that were identified during unit tests, and
via some basic code analysis, across all core code. Most of these
are incorrect usage of recordset (forgetting to close them).
Default of $params = null leads to a problem in query_db().
There this value is used in array_merge, which can not handle null
values. If null is passed for one of the params the outcome will be null
independent of the value of the second param!
In a very rare cases where the columns are not declared explicitly, we
want to fetch single row only without a warning raised. This seems like
a valid use case for IGNORE_MULTIPLE flag.
Before this patch it was possible for the student displayed on the grading page to
not be the student that the user selected to grade. This would occur if:
1) The user had the table ordered by a value that could be modified,
for example Last modified (submission), Grade, Last modified (grade)
2) Another user performed an action that was recorded in Moodle in the time
between the user generating the table and clicking on a grade link.
If a user did not notice a different user had been loaded it could result in them giving
a grade to the incorrect user.
This patch ensures that the state of the table is cached every time it is viewed by a user
who has the capability to grade.
The problem with the previous implementation was that the table's
$this->prefs can contain valid non-empty value in its default state -
the default column to sort by. On resetting, we must not throw away
these default prefs.
This patch simplifies the TABLE_VAR_RESET interpretation. If such an
HTTP parameter is passed via the request, the table simply behaves as if
there were no previously stored preferences (does not matter if coming
from the current session, or from the persistent cross-session storage).
The logic that decides on whether or not the reset widget should be
displayed is put into a new method can_be_reset() with unit tests
attached.
Finally, the previously private method render_reset_button() is now
protected and the reset widget is given a new semantic CSS class.
Andrew Nicols