get sections from course

[nelis73]

Hi,

Users may want to split up outcomes for sections (instead of groups). Perhaps something like the following could be added? (which seem to work.) These are just get functions, but I can imagine that people also may want to use create functions...

get_sections <- function(course_id){
url <- paste0(rcanvas:::canvas_url(), paste("courses", course_id, "sections",
sep = "/"))
args <- list(per_page = 100)
include <- rcanvas:::iter_args_list(NULL, "include[]")
args <- c(args, include)
rcanvas:::process_response(url, args)
}

get_section_users <- function (section_id){
url <- paste0(rcanvas:::canvas_url(), paste( "sections", section_id, "enrollments",
sep = "/"))
args <- list(per_page = 100)
include <- rcanvas:::iter_args_list(NULL, "include[]")
args <- c(args, include)
rcanvas:::process_response(url, args)
}

[daranzolin]

@nelis73 I agree--I think there's admittedly some disharmony in rcanvas with how we/I named functions and controlled how users interact with different end points. Should we have an explicitly named function get_section_students? or a more generic get_course_items where you can pass "enrollments" and filter students, teachers, TAs, etc. If we started over, I think we'd do it a little different.

I think the 'sections' end points are relatively new--they weren't there when I was working with rcanvas earlier. Thanks for letting me know!