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Adds a DELETE endpoint that removes a whole CompetencyCriteriaGroup subtree in one call: the target group, every descendant group, and every CompetencyCriterion beneath any of them.

DELETE /api/cbe/v1/competencies/<tag_id>/criteria-groups/<group_id>/

The endpoint lets a course author retire a branch of a competency's mastery rule without removing each nested criterion and group one by one, while keeping any learner progress already recorded in that branch.

Delete or archive. If no learner status row (StudentCompetencyCriterionStatus or StudentCompetencyCriteriaGroupStatus) references anything in the subtree, the subtree is hard-deleted. If any row does, every group and criterion in the subtree is archived in place (archived=True), all or nothing. After either outcome, the ancestor cascade from #674 runs from the target's parent upward: each ancestor left with no live children is hard-deleted or archived in turn, stopping at the first ancestor that still has live content.

How the hard delete works. CompetencyCriteriaGroup.parent and CompetencyCriterion.group are both on_delete=CASCADE, so the hard delete is one target_group.delete() call. Before it, a level-by-level read collects the subtree's group ids and criteria. The delete itself cannot do three things that need those ids: the learner-status check, the counts in the response, and the removal of the subtree's ObjectTags that no other criterion still references. No other tag on the tagged objects is touched.

How the archive works. Each group and criterion is saved individually rather than through a bulk update, so simple_history records each change with the requesting user. The whole operation runs in one transaction, so a failure partway through cannot leave the subtree half-archived. The archive never touches an ObjectTag. To let the subtree archive reuse the per-criterion write without triggering a cascade for every criterion, #674's _archive_criterion() is split: _write_criterion_archived() writes the flag, and _archive_criterion() calls it and then cascades.

Which groups can be removed. The permission check is oel_tagging.can_tag_object against the course that scopes the subtree. resolve_competency_criteria_group_course() finds that course by walking up from the target to the nearest group with a course. A root group is rejected with 400, because its subtree can span several courses and there is no single course to check. A group with no course-level group in its lineage is also rejected with 400. Both checks run before the permission check, inside the API function, so an in-process caller is refused in the same cases as a REST caller.

Concurrency. The transaction locks only the competency's Tag row, which is the same lock associate_competency_criterion() and #674's criterion delete take first. That ordering stops a concurrent create from adding a criterion to the subtree after it was read, or from reusing an ObjectTag this call is about to delete as orphaned. The foreign keys alone would only turn either case into an IntegrityError on one side; they would not order the two operations. A comment at each lock site records this reasoning, as AGENTS.md asks for any select_for_update().

Learner statuses are written by grading, which does not take the Tag lock. A status committed after the progress check makes the hard delete fail on the PROTECT foreign key from the status table. The hard delete therefore runs in a savepoint, and on IntegrityError the call archives the subtree instead.

When the archive fallback's re-check finds no learner progress on the target subtree, the original IntegrityError propagates instead (the conflict came from outside the subtree, such as a status landing on an ancestor during the cascade), and the view maps it to a 409 telling the caller to retry the DELETE.

Related fix outside the new endpoint. create_competency_criterion() no longer calls tagging_api.tag_object(), which rewrites the object's whole tag list for the taxonomy, so a create running alongside a delete for a different competency on the same object could restore the ObjectTag that delete had just removed. It now calls add_tag_to_object(), a new function in the tagging app's API that adds one tag to one object: it reuses an existing ObjectTag for the same object, taxonomy and tag, and otherwise runs the same allow_multiple and per-object tag-limit checks as tag_object() (the checks are shared helpers, so the rules live in one place) before inserting.

Which roles this affects: Course Author and Platform Administrator. It is a backend API addition; no Studio UI calls it yet.

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  1. pytest --no-cov tests/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/ tests/openedx_tagging/. The changes are tested in test_group_removal.py, test_views.py, test_api.py and test_criterion_removal.py under the cbe app, and tests/openedx_tagging/test_api.py covers the new add_tag_to_object().
  2. Manually, against a running instance:
    • Build a tree with repeated POST /api/cbe/v1/competencies/<tag_id>/criteria/ calls (see [BE] Create CompetencyCriteria #665), passing group_id to nest a second criterion under an existing group.
    • DELETE /api/cbe/v1/competencies/<tag_id>/criteria-groups/<group_id>/ on a group with child groups and criteria:
      • With no learner status anywhere in the subtree: 200 {"id": ..., "archived": false, "cascaded_group_count": N, "cascaded_criteria_count": M}, where N is the number of descendant groups below the target and M the number of criteria in the subtree. The whole subtree is gone.
      • With a learner status row on any group or criterion in the subtree: 200 with "archived": true. The whole subtree is still present with archived=true.
      • Repeating the DELETE on an archived subtree returns the same 200 again.
      • Repeating the DELETE after a hard delete, or using an unknown group_id or a group_id that belongs to another tag_id: 404.
      • A root group's id: 400.
      • A user without oel_tagging.can_tag_object for the subtree's course: 403, and nothing changes.

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  • New Features
    • Competency criteria groups can now be deleted. Groups with learner progress are archived instead, preserving that progress; groups without progress are permanently deleted.
    • Deleting a group also processes its descendant groups and criteria, and reports the result.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Creating a competency criterion now preserves other tag associations on the same object and reuses an existing matching association.
    • Repeated archive operations no longer unnecessarily archive a group when its criterion was already archived.

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The CBE API now supports deleting or archiving competency-criteria group subtrees. The REST group detail endpoint accepts DELETE and returns the outcome and cascade counts. Criterion creation adds or reuses only the competency’s own ObjectTag.

Changes: CBE criteria deletion and tagging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tag association and archive writes
src/openedx_tagging/api.py, src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/api.py, tests/openedx_tagging/test_api.py, tests/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/test_api.py, tests/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/test_criterion_removal.py
Criterion creation adds or reuses the competency’s ObjectTag instead of replacing the taxonomy’s object tags. Tag-count checks are shared by the tagging API. Criterion archive writes report whether they changed the criterion. Tests cover tag preservation, reuse, limits, and a criterion-removal race.
Group subtree deletion and archival
src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/api.py, src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/data.py, tests/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/test_group_removal.py
The API checks permission against the nearest course and locks the competency tag before processing the subtree. It hard-deletes the subtree when learner status is absent, or archives it when status exists. Hard deletion removes only orphaned ObjectTag rows. The result reports the target ID, archive status, and subtree counts.
REST group DELETE handling
src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/rest_api/v1/views.py, tests/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/test_views.py
The group detail view accepts DELETE and maps missing records to 404, validation errors to 400, and integrity conflicts to 409. Tests cover deletion outcomes, permissions, and request races.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant CompetencyCriteriaGroupDetailView
  participant delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group
  participant Database
  Client->>CompetencyCriteriaGroupDetailView: DELETE group
  CompetencyCriteriaGroupDetailView->>delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group: request deletion or archival
  delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group->>Database: lock competency tag and inspect subtree
  Database-->>delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group: subtree and learner status
  delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group-->>CompetencyCriteriaGroupDetailView: result and cascade counts
  CompetencyCriteriaGroupDetailView-->>Client: HTTP response
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Suggested reviewers: alezconsultant

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to c9bb6

The group delete endpoint works for the main cases, but repeating DELETE on a group that was archived as part of a parent's deletion can hard-delete it instead of returning the archived outcome. Several earlier concerns also remain open: a possible permission-check gap on DELETE, 500 errors in rare races, and test and tagging edge cases. These should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge.

Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to c9bb6

The inspected design checks course and taxonomy permissions, preserves referenced learner progress, and rolls back partial failures. No introduced security or failure-containment weakness was established.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — For trees produced through the inspected authoring paths, destructive authority covers one course-scoped competency subtree and ancestors left without live content, not arbitrary sibling-course content. The competency-wide lock also means authoring operations for that competency can wait across course boundaries.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Caller-selected competency and group identifiers reach a database mutation only after authentication, a paired identifier lookup, and the domain operation's course-and-taxonomy permission check. DELETE does not invoke the view's object-level read check; its mutation authorization is enforced in the domain operation. Scoped tests assert rejection without course authority or taxonomy access and preservation of the affected records.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Learner-status foreign keys protect referenced groups and criteria from deletion. The new operation combines those protections with a progress precheck, transactional archive fallback, and rollback on other integrity conflicts. The inspected conflict test exercises the 409 mapping and unchanged records through a simulated stale progress check, rather than a live concurrent transaction.
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Title check Passed The title says the PR adds an endpoint to delete or archive a CompetencyCriteriaGroup, which matches the main change in the changeset: the new DELETE handler, the delete_or_archive_competency_criteria…
Linked Issues check Passed Linked issue #675 is the only active direct target. Its coding requirements are covered as follows:

- Endpoint: CompetencyCriteriaGroupDetailView adds delete() and "delete" to `http_method_name…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The current diff adds the group delete path, its result type, the GroupDeletionResult export, and the _write_criterion_archived() split used by the group archive. The single-criterion delete view …
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The title says the PR adds an endpoint to delete or archive a CompetencyCriteriaGroup, which matches the main change in the changeset: the new DELETE handler, the delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group API, and the GroupDeletionResult type. The title's trailing number (#675) refers to the linked issue, not the PR itself, which the objectives identify as #936. The title is 72 characters, within a reasonable length. The title does not mention the add_tag_to_object change or the tag-preservation fix, but those are secondary to the main change, so the title is considered related to the primary change.

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Linked issue #675 is the only active direct target. Its coding requirements are covered as follows:

  • Endpoint: CompetencyCriteriaGroupDetailView adds delete() and "delete" to http_method_names. The route is DELETE /api/cbe/v1/competencies/&lt;tag_id&gt;/criteria-groups/&lt;group_id&gt;/.
  • 404: the view looks up the group by group_id and tag_id. A missing group or tag mismatch returns 404. A group removed during the call also maps to 404.
  • 400: root groups and groups without a course-level ancestor are rejected inside delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group(), before the permission check.
  • 403: the class-level CompetencyReadPermission covers taxonomy view access. The API checks oel_tagging.can_tag_object against the subtree's course, which covers course write access.
  • Outcome: hard delete when no group or criterion status exists in the subtree. Archive of the whole subtree otherwise. The PR describes a single transaction and a savepoint fallback.
  • ObjectTags: removed on hard delete only when no criterion outside the subtree references them. Not touched on archive.
  • Cascade: the ancestor cascade runs from the target's parent. The response reports only the target outcome and subtree counts.
  • Idempotency: a repeat DELETE on an archived subtree returns 200. The lookup keeps archived groups. A DELETE after hard delete returns 404.
  • Tests: test_group_removal.py and test_views.py cover these cases according to the change summary.

No non-coding requirement applies. Test results are not reported, so pass or fail of the test suite is not verified here. The coding behavior is supported by the diff of views.py, the change summary of api.py, and the PR description.

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The current diff adds the group delete path, its result type, the GroupDeletionResult export, and the _write_criterion_archived() split used by the group archive. The single-criterion delete view and route are shown as unchanged context in the views.py diff, so they are not added by this PR. The earlier concern about a criterion delete endpoint no longer applies.

The remaining changes outside the group route have a stated link to the group delete:

  • create_competency_criterion() now calls add_tag_to_object() instead of tag_object(). The PR links this to the ObjectTag removal race that the group delete performs.
  • add_tag_to_object() in openedx_tagging/api.py is required by that change. Its tests are in tests/openedx_tagging/test_api.py.
  • The shared tag-count helpers in openedx_tagging/api.py are refactored so both paths use the same limit rules.

The PR also states that the lock ordering in the group path matches the criterion paths. Those lock changes are used by the group delete. No unrelated feature or UI change is shown in the current summary.

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ufedaseyeuconsultant and others added 7 commits November 13, 2026 21:13
…tree (openedx#675)

Adds DELETE /api/cbe/v1/competencies/<tag_id>/criteria-groups/<group_id>/,
which hard-deletes a CompetencyCriteriaGroup subtree when no learner
status exists anywhere in it, or archives the whole subtree when one
does, then cascades above the target's parent. The course that scopes
the permission check is resolved at any depth.

The permission check runs inside delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group.
An archive writes only the archived flag and records the acting user.
A hard delete removes only the ObjectTags that no remaining criterion
references, and leaves every other tag on the object untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The group detail path already belongs to CompetencyCriteriaGroupDetailView
(PATCH, openedx#760), so a second view registered on the same path never
received a request and every DELETE was a 405. DELETE is now a method of
that view, and the separate view and its URL name are gone.

DELETE does not call check_object_permissions(), so the view's
CompetencyReadPermission still applies to PATCH only, and the
delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group permission check is
unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop the ancestor-group, subtree, criterion and ObjectTag row locks from
delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group, matching the criterion
delete. The subtree is still read inside the transaction after the
competency's Tag lock, the same lock a create or a criterion delete for
that competency takes first. Only the ObjectTags no remaining criterion
references are deleted, as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…openedx#675)

A learner status written after the progress check, but before the hard
delete, makes the delete fail on the status table's PROTECT foreign key.
delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group() now runs the hard delete in
a savepoint. On IntegrityError the savepoint rolls back and the progress
check runs again. If it finds a status in the target subtree, the call
archives the subtree instead, which is what it would have done had the
first check seen the status.

If the second check finds none, the failure came from outside the
subtree, for example a status that reached an ancestor group during the
cascade, or an unrelated integrity error. Archiving would not fix that,
so the original exception is re-raised with nothing changed. The group
DELETE view answers it with a 409 that tells the caller to retry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nedx#675)

create_competency_criterion() read the object's tags in the taxonomy,
added its own value, and passed the full list to tag_object(), which
replaces the object's tags in that taxonomy. A concurrent create or
delete for another competency holds a different Tag lock, so the two
could interleave: the create could restore an ObjectTag the delete had
just removed, or delete an ObjectTag the other create had just added,
taking that criterion with it through the cascade.

The create now reuses this competency's ObjectTag if it exists, or
inserts only that one row after the checks tag_object() applies when it
adds one tag: allow_multiple and OBJECT_MAX_TAGS, with the same error
messages. It never reads or writes any other tag on the object.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…enedx#675)

AGENTS.md asks every select_for_update() to say why a constraint cannot
do the job. The delete paths take the same Tag lock that
associate_competency_criterion() takes first, so a create and a delete
for one competency run one after the other instead of failing on a
foreign key.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
)

The target group's delete ran without _set_history_user(), so its
deletion history row had no user, unlike every other delete in this
module. Descendant groups and criteria are removed by Django's delete
collector, which gives no per-instance hook for the user, so their
deletion rows are left as they were.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Major · Reactivate an archived root before creating another course branch. · api.py:307-311

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Reactivate an archived root before creating another course branch.

The new deletion cascade archives the root when its last live subtree is archived. A later associate_competency_criterion() call for another course reuses that root without clearing archived. Creation succeeds, but get_competency_criteria_tree() omits the new branch because its root remains archived. Reactivate the root under the Tag lock, as ADR-0002 Decision 2 requires. This change makes the existing creation gap reachable through DELETE. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/api.py around lines 307 - 311:
Update associate_competency_criterion() so that, under the Tag lock, it clears the archived state on a reused root from CompetencyCriteriaGroup.objects.get_or_create before adding another course branch. Preserve the existing root-creation behavior and ensure the new branch is visible through get_competency_criteria_tree().
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Also preserve an unrelated tag with no criterion.

Add another ObjectTag on the same object without a referencing CompetencyCriterion. Assert that this tag survives deletion. The current unrelated tag has a surviving criterion, so cleanup that incorrectly deletes every unreferenced tag on the object would still pass.

Based on learnings, filtered-deletion tests need a similar-but-distinct row that must remain.

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Review comment at @tests/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/test_group_removal.py around lines 345 - 349:
Extend the group-removal test around `_make_object_tag` and `_make_criterion` with a second ObjectTag on the same object that has no referencing CompetencyCriterion. After deletion, assert that this unreferenced ObjectTag remains, while preserving the existing unrelated tag and criterion case.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/api.py:
- Around line 462-464: Update the single-tag validation around
ObjectTag.objects.filter so stale associations with tag_id=None do not consume
the taxonomy’s slot. Preserve the existing replacement behavior by using the
owning app’s incremental tagging API helper to remove invalid associations
before applying the new competency, and keep mutations within the owning app’s
api.py.

Review comments at @src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/rest_api/v1/views.py:
- Line 299: Update the exception handler around
CompetencyCriteriaGroup.DoesNotExist and Tag.DoesNotExist to also catch
CourseRun.DoesNotExist, preserving the existing 404 response for a course that
disappears during lazy resolution. Add a regression case at the
course-resolution boundary for this race.

Review comments at
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- Line 89: Update the worker setup around the `cursor.execute` lock-timeout
statement to select a database-specific timeout: use `innodb_lock_wait_timeout`
for MySQL and PostgreSQL’s `lock_timeout` for PostgreSQL. Preserve the existing
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Review comments at @src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/api.py:
- Around line 307-311: Update associate_competency_criterion() so that, under
the Tag lock, it clears the archived state on a reused root from
CompetencyCriteriaGroup.objects.get_or_create before adding another course
branch. Preserve the existing root-creation behavior and ensure the new branch
is visible through get_competency_criteria_tree().

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Review comments at @tests/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/test_group_removal.py:
- Around line 345-349: Extend the group-removal test around `_make_object_tag`
and `_make_criterion` with a second ObjectTag on the same object that has no
referencing CompetencyCriterion. After deletion, assert that this unreferenced
ObjectTag remains, while preserving the existing unrelated tag and criterion
case.

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Remove the criterion delete endpoint, its URL route, its view, and
`delete_or_archive_competency_criterion()` from this PR. Keep them for #674.
Remove the `archived` serializer change unless #675 needs it. If the group
delete still needs the criterion-level archive helper, keep only the private
`_write_criterion_archived()` and `_cascade_from_group()` helpers that the group
path calls. For the race fixes outside the group path
(`create_competency_criterion()`, `record_graded_object_statuses()`, and the
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try:
result = delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group(group.id, request.user)
except (CompetencyCriteriaGroup.DoesNotExist, Tag.DoesNotExist) as exc:

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Map concurrent course disappearance to 404.

If course deletion commits after the API reads a course-level group but before course resolution reads node.course, the lazy lookup raises CourseRun.DoesNotExist. The resolver performs this lookup in src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/api.py, Lines 1132–1157. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

This handler does not catch that exception. Default DRF handling therefore returns 500 instead of 404. Catch CourseRun.DoesNotExist here, or normalize it to CompetencyCriteriaGroup.DoesNotExist in the API. Add a regression case at the course-resolution boundary. (django-rest-framework.org)

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Update the exception handler around CompetencyCriteriaGroup.DoesNotExist and Tag.DoesNotExist to also catch CourseRun.DoesNotExist, preserving the existing 404 response for a course that disappears during lazy resolution. Add a regression case at the course-resolution boundary for this race.

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Major · Reactivate an archived root before creating another course branch. · api.py:307-311

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Reactivate an archived root before creating another course branch.

The new deletion cascade archives the root when its last live subtree is archived. A later associate_competency_criterion() call for another course reuses that root without clearing archived. Creation succeeds, but get_competency_criteria_tree() omits the new branch because its root remains archived. Reactivate the root under the Tag lock, as ADR-0002 Decision 2 requires. This change makes the existing creation gap reachable through DELETE. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update associate_competency_criterion() so that, under the Tag lock, it clears the archived state on a reused root from CompetencyCriteriaGroup.objects.get_or_create before adding another course branch. Preserve the existing root-creation behavior and ensure the new branch is visible through get_competency_criteria_tree().
Major · Configure lock timeouts for each supported database. · test_criterion_concurrency.py:89

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Configure lock timeouts for each supported database.

On PostgreSQL, has_select_for_update is true, so this module runs. Every worker then fails on the unsupported innodb_lock_wait_timeout setting before invoking its callable. This blocks the concurrency tests on a supported backend. Gate the MySQL statement and use PostgreSQL’s lock_timeout for PostgreSQL workers. AGENTS.md explicitly requires PostgreSQL compatibility. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the worker setup around the `cursor.execute` lock-timeout statement to select a database-specific timeout: use `innodb_lock_wait_timeout` for MySQL and PostgreSQL’s `lock_timeout` for PostgreSQL. Preserve the existing timeout duration and ensure workers on each supported backend reach their callable.
Minor · Do not let a deleted tag consume the single-tag slot. · api.py:462-464

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Do not let a deleted tag consume the single-tag slot.

In a closed, single-tag taxonomy, deleting a Tag can leave its cached ObjectTag with tag_id=None. This query still counts that row and rejects a replacement competency with ValidationError. The previous tagging API path removes invalid associations when applying the replacement list. Preserve that behavior through an incremental tagging API helper. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the single-tag validation around ObjectTag.objects.filter so stale associations with tag_id=None do not consume the taxonomy’s slot. Preserve the existing replacement behavior by using the owning app’s incremental tagging API helper to remove invalid associations before applying the new competency, and keep mutations within the owning app’s api.py.

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Also preserve an unrelated tag with no criterion.

Add another ObjectTag on the same object without a referencing CompetencyCriterion. Assert that this tag survives deletion. The current unrelated tag has a surviving criterion, so cleanup that incorrectly deletes every unreferenced tag on the object would still pass.

Based on learnings, filtered-deletion tests need a similar-but-distinct row that must remain.

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Extend the group-removal test around `_make_object_tag` and `_make_criterion` with a second ObjectTag on the same object that has no referencing CompetencyCriterion. After deletion, assert that this unreferenced ObjectTag remains, while preserving the existing unrelated tag and criterion case.

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- Around line 307-311: Update associate_competency_criterion() so that, under
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CompetencyCriteriaGroup.objects.get_or_create before adding another course
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Remove the criterion delete endpoint, its URL route, its view, and
`delete_or_archive_competency_criterion()` from this PR. Keep them for #674.
Remove the `archived` serializer change unless #675 needs it. If the group
delete still needs the criterion-level archive helper, keep only the private
`_write_criterion_archived()` and `_cascade_from_group()` helpers that the group
path calls. For the race fixes outside the group path
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create_competency_criterion() wrote the ObjectTag row itself and
copied two of tag_object()'s rules, so the single-valued taxonomy rule
and the per-object tag limit lived in two apps.

The tagging API gains add_tag_to_object(), which adds one tag to an
object, reuses the ObjectTag if the tag is already applied, and
leaves every other tag of the object untouched. tag_object() and the
new function share the same two checks and error messages through
_check_object_tag_limit() and _check_taxonomy_allows_tag_count().
create_competency_criterion() calls the new function and maps its
ValueError to a ValidationError keyed to object_id.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Tag-lock comment in delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group()
claimed the foreign keys turn every race into an IntegrityError. A
create that commits into the subtree just before the delete reads its
rows is deleted silently, because CompetencyCriterion.group cascades.
The comment now gives that reasoning, as the criterion delete's lock
comment does.

The docstring also gains the outcomes it left out: the archive path
re-validates each stored rule payload and can fail the whole call, a
hard delete that commits first fails a learner's later grade write,
and a repeat call on a group archived only because of a sibling
hard-deletes it.

Wording fixes in the view, the course resolution function and
GroupDeletionResult, and two renames (candidate_objecttag_ids,
should_archive). resolve_competency_criteria_group_course() becomes
private, since only the delete function calls it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four behaviors of the group delete had no test that fails when they
break. The root-group 400 is now checked for its message, not just
its key, in one merged test. A caller who lacks taxonomy access gets
a 403 and the subtree stays unchanged. An ancestor cascade that fails
after the subtree and its orphaned ObjectTags are deleted rolls back
through the savepoint and archives instead. Deleting one group leaves
a sibling group with its own learner status untouched.

A view test covers the archive path failing the whole DELETE with a
400 when one criterion's stored rule payload has gone invalid.

Test cleanup: drop a test whose setup product code cannot create,
fold two duplicate fallback tests into one, make the ObjectTag
untouched check compare values, remove existence checks that follow
refresh_from_db(), and fix the stale helper name in two docstrings.

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# Savepoint: a learner status committed after the progress check above makes the delete
# fail on its PROTECT foreign key, and only this block must roll back.
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Check deferred constraints before releasing the savepoint.

The repository supports PostgreSQL and specifies Django 5.2. That backend creates foreign keys as DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED; releasing an inner atomic() savepoint does not commit the transaction. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

If learner progress commits after Django collects the protected relations but before the SQL delete, the foreign-key failure occurs when the outer transaction commits. It bypasses this except IntegrityError, so DELETE returns a conflict instead of archiving the subtree. Force the relevant constraint checks inside this savepoint so the recovery branch can run. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the transaction.atomic() savepoint so the relevant deferred foreign-key constraints are checked before it exits, allowing any IntegrityError to reach the existing recovery branch. Use the project’s supported Django/PostgreSQL constraint-checking mechanism and preserve the savepoint rollback behavior.

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group = get_object_or_404(
CompetencyCriteriaGroup, pk=self.kwargs["group_id"], tag_id=self.kwargs["tag_id"],
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Authorization Bypass

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

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Run the taxonomy object-permission check before deletion.

CompetencyReadPermission implements only has_object_permission(). Unlike PATCH, DELETE never calls self.check_object_permissions(), so declaring the permission class does not enforce that check. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

If an integration overrides oel_tagging.view_taxonomy to deny access, the default can_tag_object rule can still pass: its taxonomy check calls the base predicate directly. An authenticated course author with a known group ID can then delete or archive a subtree in that denied taxonomy. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Resolve the competency tag and call self.check_object_permissions(request, tag) before the group lookup, as PATCH does. Based on learnings, permission checks must honor the org-aware rules.set_perm overrides. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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No change needed here. The DELETE is authorized inside delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group(), which requires oel_tagging.can_tag_object for the competency's taxonomy and the group's course before anything is locked or changed. That rule checks the taxonomy through user.has_perm("oel_tagging.change_objecttag_taxonomy", ...), so an override registered with rules.set_perm is honored, and openedx-platform replaces both oel_tagging.can_tag_object and oel_tagging.change_objecttag_taxonomy with its own rules. test_group_delete_without_taxonomy_access_is_403_and_changes_nothing denies the taxonomy permission and gets a 403 with the subtree unchanged. The criterion delete view merged in #879 authorizes the same way.

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@mgwozdz-unicon You’re right that the API checks oel_tagging.can_tag_object before deleting, and the cited test denies oel_tagging.change_objecttag_taxonomy.

My finding concerns a separate case: an integration could deny oel_tagging.view_taxonomy while allowing the write permission. The default write rule does not consult the view_taxonomy override, and the cited test does not cover that case.

I have not verified whether openedx-platform’s overrides always keep those permissions aligned. I respect your decision not to change the code, but I’m not marking the finding as addressed.


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Learning: Within repository "openedx/openedx-core", only for files matching one of ["src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/rest_api/v1/views.py","src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/api.py"]: In src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/rest_api/v1/views.py, the group DELETE delegates authorization to delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group in src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/api.py. That function checks oel_tagging.can_tag_object for the group's taxonomy and nearest course before locking or modifying data. Under the default tagging rule, this check delegates taxonomy authorization through user.has_perm("oel_tagging.change_objecttag_taxonomy", ...), so overrides of that permission are honored. Do not assume this also enforces an independently overridden oel_tagging.view_taxonomy permission.

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# AGENTS.md

## Architecture

### openedx_learning and openedx_tagging specifics

- Permissions use django-rules, always checked through `user.has_perm(...)` rather than by
  calling a predicate directly, because openedx-platform swaps in org-aware rules via
  `rules.set_perm` and a direct call skips them. Tagging's `api.py` enforces no permissions (its
  views do); some CBE API functions take a `user` and raise Django's `PermissionDenied`
  themselves. A consuming project needs `rules.apps.AutodiscoverRulesConfig` in `INSTALLED_APPS`
  and `rules.permissions.ObjectPermissionBackend` in `AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS`; without them every
  non-superuser gets 403 with nothing in the logs, and testing as a superuser hides the problem.

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should_archive = _subtree_has_learner_progress(subtree_ids, criterion_ids)
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Preserve the archive outcome for an already archived target.

If deleting a parent archives two child groups because only one child has learner progress, the other child is archived without progress. A later DELETE on that archived child enters this hard-delete branch. It removes the retained subtree and its orphaned ObjectTag rows, then returns archived=False.

Issue #675 requires deletion of an archived group to remain idempotent. Include target_group.archived in the archive decision. Keep the existing no-op archive writes to avoid duplicate history rows.

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Review comment at @src/openedx_learning/applets/cbe/api.py around lines 1327 - 1328:
Update the archive decision in the deletion flow around _subtree_has_learner_progress to also treat target_group.archived as a reason to archive. Preserve the existing no-op archive writes so repeated DELETE requests remain idempotent without adding duplicate history rows.

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Claude and I re-reviewed the three commits added since my review on ufedaseyeuconsultant#4 via this link https://github.com/openedx/openedx-core/pull/936/changes/ede2c2b7dcec3777718829ce0b9492917b1c4fa2..c9bb643180e7e244fc9627956de4609a1c8173ff. All four must-fix items and all the nits are addressed, and the 14 acceptance criteria of #675 are still met. We also confirmed that each new test fails when the code it guards is removed: the savepoint, the root-group check, and the two checks in add_tag_to_object(). Approving, with one nit.

  1. api.py, Tag-lock comment in delete_or_archive_competency_criteria_group(). The comment is now correct, but it is still hard to follow because it packs two races and the reason for the lock into one paragraph. Suggested wording:

    # Take the Tag lock that associate_competency_criterion() takes first, so no create for this
    # competency runs while this delete does. Without the lock, a create could commit a criterion
    # into this subtree after the subtree is read below, and target_group.delete() would
    # cascade-delete that criterion after the create had returned success. A create could also
    # reuse an ObjectTag at the moment this call deletes it as orphaned, and lose its new
    # criterion the same way.

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