Welcome to Open edX Filters’s Documentation!

Open edX Filters is a type of hook in the Hooks Extension Framework that allows extending the Open edX platform in a more stable and maintainable way. If you’re new to this approach for extending Open edX, start by reading the Hooks Extension Framework documentation. This documentation provides an overview of the framework’s concepts and structure to support your adoption of Open edX Filters.

Contents:

• Concepts
  • Open edX Filters
• References
  • Open edX Filters Tooling
  • Open edX Filters Glossary
  • Filters
  • Filter Configurations
  • Django Plugins and Filters
  • Real-Life Use Cases for Open edX Filters
  • Architecture Subdomains
  • Documenting Open edX Filters Classes
  • Naming Suggestions for Open edX Filters
• How-tos
  • Create a New Open edX Filter with Long-Term Support
  • Create a Pipeline Step
• Quickstarts
  • Using Open edX Filters in the LMS service
• Decisions
  • 1. Purpose of this Repo
  • 2. Configuration for filters in the Hooks Extension Framework
  • 3. Filter tooling: pipeline behaviour
  • 4. Open edX filters naming and versioning
  • 5. Open edX filters payload conventions
  • 6. Filter tooling: debugging tools
  • 7. Filters Design Practices
  • 8. The authentication architecture subdomain