Importing a course from command line

[ennisa]

Hi Folks
I am liking tutor, however, I cannot import a course form the command line. Here are the steps I followed.

• change to my working directory: /home/ennisa/workspace/docs/company/code_institute/build
• download demo course from github: git clone https://github.com/edx/demo-test-course.git
• cd demo-test-course
• execute import command with data dir and source dir arguments: tutor local run cms ./manage.py cms import /home/ennisa/workspace/docs/company/code_institute/build/demo-test-course course

This results in error

ennisa@workhorse:~/workspace/docs/company/code_institute/build/demo-test-course$ tutor local run cms ./manage.py cms import /home/ennisa/workspace/docs/company/code_institute/build/demo-test-course course 
docker-compose -f /home/ennisa/.local/share/tutor/env/local/docker-compose.yml -f /home/ennisa/.local/share/tutor/env/local/docker-compose.prod.yml --project-name tutor_local run --rm cms ./manage.py cms import /home/ennisa/workspace/docs/company/code_institute/build/demo-test-course course
Creating tutor_local_cms_run ... done
Importing...
    data_dir=/home/ennisa/workspace/docs/company/code_institute/build/demo-test-course, source_dirs=['course']
    Importing static content? True
    Importing python lib? True
2021-03-26 14:45:19,939 ERROR 1 [xmodule.modulestore.xml] [user None] [ip None] xml.py:385 - ERROR: Failed to load courselike 'b'course'': [Errno 2] No such file or directory: Path('/home/ennisa/workspace/docs/company/code_institute/build/demo-test-course/course/course.xml')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/openedx/edx-platform/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/xml.py", line 380, in try_load_course
    course_descriptor = self.load_course(course_dir, course_ids, errorlog.tracker, target_course_id)
  File "/openedx/edx-platform/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/xml.py", line 441, in load_course
    with open(self.data_dir / course_dir / self.parent_xml) as course_file:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: Path('/home/ennisa/workspace/docs/company/code_institute/build/demo-test-course/course/course.xml')
ennisa@workhorse:~/workspace/docs/company/code_institute/build/demo-test-course$ 

Here are the log files show nothing when the command above is executed.

tutor local logs cms --tail=200

My tutor version is …

• tutor, version 11.2.4

My OS is

• ubuntu.

1. first off is it possible to import a repo such as the demo repo?
2. that is meant by data dir and source dir?

Thanks Anthony.

[regis]

Hi @ennisa! You must understand that the files stored on your computer are not directly available in your containers. To add them to a container, you must mount a volume: Volumes | Docker Docs

In your particular case, you should probably run something along the lines of:

cd demo-test-course
tutor local run -v $(pwd):/tmp/democourse cms bash
./manage.py cms import ../data /tmp/democourse
./manage.py cms reindex_course --all --setup

@ennisa

Here are the log files show nothing when the command above is executed.

This is normal, as this command does not display logs from containers run with tutor local run ....

PS: you are aware that there is a built-in command to import the demo course, right? Local deployment — Tutor documentation