edx/edx-platform — pull request #2356 by dmitchell (2014-01-29 19:51:16+00:00)
Title: MixedModulestore wraps most getters, update_item, delete_item [REVIEW ONLY: DON'T MERGE]

with code to translate between addressing schemes based on app
and persistence layer addressing scheme specification.

STUD-1206

@singingwolfboy @cahrens Can you go ahead and review this. I still need to refactor some of the caching logic to ensure it performs ok in production. When I add that, I'll add cale and ormsbee to the reviewers.

The big change here is refactoring update_item to take an xblock and persist all of it's changes to the db rather than having the caller use update_[item|children|metadata] w/ location and json.

The purpose of this PR; however, is the titular description.