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Initial implementation of assets app [FC-0138] - #904
This is an initial implementation of "Assets" as proposed in ADR 13 of #822.
Private ref FAL-4427
Still TODO, probably in follow-up PRs:
update backup/restore (only needed once/if we start using this in libraries)
Update create_component_version / create_next_component_version / create_component_and_version to accept dependencies=. We'll probably also want a helper that takes a set of referenced filenames and returns Asset IDs, skipping the component's own attached files and creating placeholders for the rest.
events? (Note that update_asset doesn't emit any events nor new versions when changing an asset's permissions)
Shadow Components
Helper API method for copying a shared Asset into a component as a local file
AI disclosure: I wrote 95% of this myself, but got feedback and help from Claude. A couple of the smaller follow-up commits were authored by Claude where indicated.
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New Features
Added support for managing package assets, including version history, path-based lookup, access settings, and script-serving controls.
Assets can be linked as dependencies of component versions, and missing asset dependencies can be identified.
Added read-only administrative views for assets and their versions.
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This change adds package-scoped assets and version records, APIs for managing them, and support for asset dependencies in component versions. It also registers asset models and admin pages, exposes the asset APIs and models, and updates related decision records.
Changes: Asset applet
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Asset persistence and constraints src/openedx_content/applets/assets/models.py, src/openedx_content/migrations/0015_assets.py, docs/openedx_content/decisions/0013-shared-static-assets.rst
Adds Asset and AssetVersion models and their migration. Package-scoped paths, permission choices, path constraints, and asset identity rules are defined.
Adds APIs to create, version, update, and query assets, including media resolution and deleted-asset recreation. Tests and documentation cover asset behavior and related decision records.
Component-version APIs accept dependency IDs. Next-version creation preserves dependencies when the argument is omitted, replaces them when a list is supplied, and clears them when given an empty list.
Registers the asset models and read-only admin views. Exposes the asset API and models, and adds the assets applet to the content-applet layering rule.
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant AssetsAPI
participant PublishingAPI
participant Media
Caller->>AssetsAPI: create_asset_and_version
AssetsAPI->>PublishingAPI: create publishable entity and version
AssetsAPI->>Media: resolve or create media
AssetsAPI-->>Caller: return Asset and AssetVersion
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Merge Risk: Low · up to b5d88
The asset models, APIs and component dependency carry-over look sound. Two issues remain before relying on this broadly. Package backups will silently leave out Assets and their media until backup support lands. Two simultaneous re-uploads to the same soft-deleted asset path can both succeed, with the second overwriting the first restored draft. Both are limited in scope, so the change is mergeable with follow-up on these items.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to b5d88
Asset creation and versioning preserve package boundaries and reuse transactional publishing. The principal design risk is recovery: packages that adopt shared assets cannot yet rely on the existing archive workflow to preserve them. No newly reachable authorization bypass or filesystem traversal was established.
Retained concerns
Low · reliability · inferred: The new public APIs accept persistent shared assets before package archives can preserve and reconstruct them. The existing archive implementation writes component and container state and restores those entity types, without asset reconstruction. Packages adopting assets therefore lack complete recovery through that workflow, including asset files and access metadata. The PR explicitly defers this support, and no production adopter was established, limiting immediate exposure.
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Security Blast Radius
observed — Asset lookup by path and duplicate recovery are scoped to a learning package. Version creation rejects existing Media from another package. ID-based asset operations do not take an expected package or authenticated principal, so caller authorization remains an integration responsibility.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The routed filesystem candidate does not establish traversal through asset creation: validation rejects absolute paths, backslashes, control characters, and dot segments, and storage addressing is independent of the asset filename. This conclusion does not assess future URL decoding or serving implementations.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The save sentinel is an API-usage guard, not a caller-authorization boundary; direct manager updates bypass it as documented. The new administrative views inherit controls that prohibit adding, changing, and deleting records.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Database rollback does not roll back backing-file writes. The reused media implementation documents this pre-existing behavior and accommodates retries by recognizing an existing same-sized file. This PR does not change that storage protocol.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Before production adoption, require an explicit recovery strategy for asset-bearing packages and verify round-trip preservation of files, version identity, dependencies, permissions, and allow_scripts. Platform integration should separately enforce package authorization and serving policy rather than relying on the save sentinel.
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The title "Initial implementation of assets app [FC-0138]" matches the main change. The PR adds a new assets applet, including models, migration, API, admin, and tests, and the PR objectives describe an initial implementation of Assets. The title is short and specific, and it names the new applet. It does not cover every detail, which is acceptable.
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Review comments at @src/openedx_content/applets/assets/api.py:
- Line 239: Update the restore branch around Asset.objects.get to capture the
latest version number before writing and pass the corresponding next number as
force_version_num when creating the restored version. Keep the update and
version creation in a narrowly scoped atomic block, and translate only an
IntegrityError from those writes into AssetAlreadyExists; do not use row
locking.
Review comments at @src/openedx_content/applets/assets/models.py:
- Line 62: Update create_zip to detect packages containing Asset entities and
fail with a clear error instead of producing an incomplete backup; preserve this
guard until Asset metadata and media serialization is implemented.
Review comments at @src/openedx_content/applets/components/api.py:
- Line 249: Update create_next_component_version to preserve the previous
version’s dependencies when dependencies is None, while keeping an explicit
empty list as the way to clear them. Reuse the previous version’s stored
dependency identifiers before creating the new version, and leave the existing
media behavior unchanged.
Review comments at @tests/openedx_content/applets/assets/test_api.py:
- Line 291: Update the three primary-key assertions in the versioning tests,
including the assertion comparing asset.versioning.draft.pk with asset_v1.pk, to
use value equality rather than object identity.
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Use the observed version number so the unique constraint rejects a concurrent restore.
The restore branch reads draft before it writes. Two uploads can both see draft is None. The second upload then waits on the Asset row UPDATE in update_asset(). After the first upload commits, create_next_asset_version() reads latest again and computes the next version from the first upload's version. The (entity, version_num) constraint does not fire, so both uploads succeed. The second upload silently replaces the first upload's restored draft.
Do not fix this with select_for_update(). AGENTS.md says to avoid row locks for races like this. Read the latest version number before the write, pass it as force_version_num, and map the unique-constraint IntegrityError to AssetAlreadyExists. Keep the block limited to these writes, because the handler maps any IntegrityError in it to AssetAlreadyExists.
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--- "a/src/openedx_content/applets/assets/api.py"+++ "b/src/openedx_content/applets/assets/api.py"@@ -235,17 +235,30 @@
asset, version_num=1, title=title, created=created, created_by=created_by, media=media
)
except AssetAlreadyExists:
if overwrite_deleted:
asset = Asset.objects.get(learning_package_id=learning_package_id, path=path)
if asset.versioning.draft is None:
- # Reset 'allow_scripts' to False unless specified, and update permissions iff specified:- update_asset(asset, permissions=permissions, allow_scripts=allow_scripts)- asset_version = create_next_asset_version(- asset, title=title, created=created, created_by=created_by, media=media- )+ # Read the version observed before the Asset row write. A concurrent restore+ # that commits the same version_num causes the unique constraint to fail.+ observed_latest = asset.versioning.latest+ next_version_num = 1 if observed_latest is None else observed_latest.version_num + 1+ try:+ with atomic():+ # Reset 'allow_scripts' to False unless specified, and update permissions iff specified:+ update_asset(asset, permissions=permissions, allow_scripts=allow_scripts)+ asset_version = create_next_asset_version(+ asset,+ title=title,+ created=created,+ created_by=created_by,+ media=media,+ force_version_num=next_version_num,+ )+ except IntegrityError as e:+ raise AssetAlreadyExists(path=path) from e
asset.refresh_from_db()
return (asset, asset_version)
raise
return (asset, asset_version)
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Review comment at @src/openedx_content/applets/assets/api.py at line 239:
Update the restore branch around Asset.objects.get to capture the latest version number before writing and pass the corresponding next number as force_version_num when creating the restored version. Keep the update and version creation in a narrowly scoped atomic block, and translate only an IntegrityError from those writes into AssetAlreadyExists; do not use row locking.
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Backups silently omit Assets and their media.
create_zip() serializes only entities with a container or component relation. An Asset entity matches neither branch, so the backup completes without Asset metadata or media. Restoring such an archive loses the uploaded files. The PR lists backup/restore for Assets as a follow-up, so this is a known gap, but nothing in the code blocks or warns about it.
Consider failing the backup with a clear error when the package contains Assets. Alternatively, track the gap explicitly until Asset serialization lands.
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Review comment at @src/openedx_content/applets/assets/models.py at line 62:
Update create_zip to detect packages containing Asset entities and fail with a clear error instead of producing an incomplete backup; preserve this guard until Asset metadata and media serialization is implemented.
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Carry forward dependencies when create_next_component_version receives None.
create_next_component_version carries forward the previous version's media unless ignore_previous_media is true. It does not carry forward dependencies. When dependencies is None, create_publishable_entity_version skips the dependency write, so the new version has no dependency rows. A title-only call with media_to_replace={} keeps the media but drops the dependencies. Code that reads version dependencies, such as the live-dependency hash in publishing/api.py, no longer sees the retained references.
This function's docstring describes the next version as "just like the last version, except changing these one or two things." Copy the previous version's dependencies when the caller omits them. Pass an explicit [] to clear them.
Suggested fix
if force_version_num is not None:
next_version_num = force_version_num
+ if dependencies is None and last_version is not None:+ dependencies = list(+ last_version.publishable_entity_version.dependencies.values_list("id", flat=True)+ )+
with atomic():
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Review comment at @src/openedx_content/applets/components/api.py at line 249:
Update create_next_component_version to preserve the previous version’s dependencies when dependencies is None, while keeping an explicit empty list as the way to clear them. Reuse the previous version’s stored dependency identifiers before creating the new version, and leave the existing media behavior unchanged.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Compare primary-key values with ==.
These assertions compare integers loaded through separate database queries. is checks object identity, not integer equality. With primary keys outside CPython's small-integer cache, the assertions can fail even when the versions are correct. Replace all three is comparisons with ==. (docs.python.org)
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Review comment at @tests/openedx_content/applets/assets/test_api.py at line 291:
Update the three primary-key assertions in the versioning tests, including the assertion comparing asset.versioning.draft.pk with asset_v1.pk, to use value equality rather than object identity.
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This is an initial implementation of "Assets" as proposed in ADR 13 of #822.
Private ref FAL-4427
Still TODO, probably in follow-up PRs:
create_component_version/create_next_component_version/create_component_and_versionto acceptdependencies=. We'll probably also want a helper that takes a set of referenced filenames and returns Asset IDs, skipping the component's own attached files and creating placeholders for the rest.update_assetdoesn't emit any events nor new versions when changing an asset's permissions)AI disclosure: I wrote 95% of this myself, but got feedback and help from Claude. A couple of the smaller follow-up commits were authored by Claude where indicated.
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