New question type plugin based on essay question type

New question type plugin based on essay question type

by Евгений Мамаев -
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Hello!

I am developing a new question type plugin based in essay question type. The difference is that I need to implement 2 and maybe more textarea fields for answers. I have setup additional settings and now it displays 2 textareas  for answers.

Now how can I save those answers in database? I click save button in preview mode and all my textareas get empty

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Re: New question type plugin based on essay question type

by Tim Hunt -
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The most likely explanation is that you forgot to override the get_expected_data method. See the comment here https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/a672f021eaf0640c6f3b0094839c8c4fd3b2df7a/question/type/questionbase.php#L282, and look at what some of the standard question types do.
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Re: New question type plugin based on essay question type

by Евгений Мамаев -
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Thank you, I have looked at code and have overridden get_expected_data method.
Now it has the following code

$expecteddata=array();
$expecteddata['paragraph1']=PARAM_RAW_TRIMMED;
$expecteddata['paragraph2']=PARAM_RAW_TRIMMED;

return $expecteddata;

I can see, that these parameters get submitted as

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="q26:1_paragraph1"

123
-----------------------------59511202423693
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="q26:1_paragraph2"

456

Is there a method to get these values, check them prior to store them?
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Re: New question type plugin based on essay question type

by Евгений Мамаев -
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What $inputname should be passed in this call?
$qa->get_submitted_var($inputname, PARAM_RAW_TRIMMED);

Should it be "paragpaph1" or should it be dynamic "q26:1_paragraph1"?
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