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<?php // This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/ // // Moodle is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // Moodle is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License // along with Moodle. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. /** * A {@link \question_variant_selection_strategy} that randomly selects variants that were not used yet. * * @package core_question * @copyright 2015 The Open University * @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later */ namespace core_question\engine\variants; defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die(); /** * A {@link \question_variant_selection_strategy} that randomly selects variants that were not used yet. * * If all variants have been used at least once in the set of usages under * consideration, then then it picks one of the least often used. * * Within one particular use of this class, each seed will always select the * same variant. This is so that shared datasets work in calculated questions, * and similar features in question types like varnumeric and STACK. * * @copyright 2015 The Open University * @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later */ class least_used_strategy implements \question_variant_selection_strategy { /** @var array seed => variant number => number of uses. */ protected $variantsusecounts = array(); /** @var array seed => variant number. */ protected $selectedvariant = array(); /** * Constructor.< * @param question_usage_by_activity $quba the question usage we will be picking variants for. < * @param qubaid_condition $qubaids ids of the usages to consider when counting previous uses of each variant.> * @param \question_usage_by_activity $quba the question usage we will be picking variants for. > * @param \qubaid_condition $qubaids ids of the usages to consider when counting previous uses of each variant.*/ public function __construct(\question_usage_by_activity $quba, \qubaid_condition $qubaids) { $questionidtoseed = array(); foreach ($quba->get_attempt_iterator() as $qa) { $question = $qa->get_question(); if ($question->get_num_variants() > 1) { $questionidtoseed[$question->id] = $question->get_variants_selection_seed(); } } if (empty($questionidtoseed)) { return; } $this->variantsusecounts = array_fill_keys($questionidtoseed, array()); $variantsused = \question_engine::load_used_variants(array_keys($questionidtoseed), $qubaids); foreach ($variantsused as $questionid => $usagecounts) { $seed = $questionidtoseed[$questionid]; foreach ($usagecounts as $variant => $count) { if (isset($this->variantsusecounts[$seed][$variant])) { $this->variantsusecounts[$seed][$variant] += $count; } else { $this->variantsusecounts[$seed][$variant] = $count; } } } } public function choose_variant($maxvariants, $seed) { if ($maxvariants == 1) { return 1; } if (isset($this->selectedvariant[$seed])) { return $this->selectedvariant[$seed]; } // Catch a possible programming error, and make the problem clear. if (!isset($this->variantsusecounts[$seed])) { debugging('Variant requested for unknown seed ' . $seed . '. ' . 'You must add all questions to the usage before creating the least_used_strategy. ' . 'Continuing, but the variant choses may not actually be least used.', DEBUG_DEVELOPER); $this->variantsusecounts[$seed] = array(); } if ($maxvariants > 2 * count($this->variantsusecounts[$seed])) { // Many many more variants exist than have been used so far. // It will be quicker to just pick until we miss a collision. do { $variant = rand(1, $maxvariants); } while (isset($this->variantsusecounts[$seed][$variant])); } else { // We need to work harder to find a least-used one. $leastusedvariants = array(); for ($variant = 1; $variant <= $maxvariants; ++$variant) { if (!isset($this->variantsusecounts[$seed][$variant])) { $leastusedvariants[$variant] = 1; } } if (empty($leastusedvariants)) { // All variants used at least once, try again. $leastuses = min($this->variantsusecounts[$seed]); foreach ($this->variantsusecounts[$seed] as $variant => $uses) { if ($uses == $leastuses) { $leastusedvariants[$variant] = 1; } } } $variant = array_rand($leastusedvariants); } $this->selectedvariant[$seed] = $variant; if (isset($variantsusecounts[$seed][$variant])) { $variantsusecounts[$seed][$variant] += 1; } else { $variantsusecounts[$seed][$variant] = 1; } return $variant; } }