[LON-CAPA-admin] auto-enrollment again

[Peter Kovac]

    Hello again.  Per Guy's suggestion, I took a look through the 
comments in /home/httpd/lib/perl/localenroll-std.pm  My perl is a bit 
rusty (been a few years) and, to be honest, tends to be more hacks than 
pretty code so I apologize if I seem dense.

    First, my eventual goal.  I have been completely unsuccessful at 
getting access to a proper enrollment datastore.  However, our faculty 
can easily produce classlists in tabular (CVS/Excel) format.  I'd like 
to hack together something that will convert uploaded classlist tables 
into proper XML and insert them into the auto-enrollment system.  I 
will, of course, pass on said ugly hack to whomever wants it.

    I gather that fetch_enrollment is designed to generate XML files 
that are then imported as class lists by other parts of the system.  My 
reading of the perl seems to indicate that the actual work is done by 
code somewhere other than /home/httpd/lib/perl/localenroll-std.pm or 
that I'm supposed to write the interface between the enrollment and our 
data source (vaguely recall something like that said at a conference). 

    So, any suggestions for other places to look to get a better handle 
on the enrollment framework?  Other advice?

    Thanks,
    Peter