Advanced DLKit Usage

Sometimes you may need to use DLKit in a stricter OSID fashion, bypassing the services convenience methods discussed in Basic DLKit Usage. To use DLKit in a more OSID-y way, you would manually manage the various admin / lookup / etc. sessions, from either a service manager or a service catalog.

Currently, the main use case when you would need to manage sessions yourself is if you want to look up objects without knowing their catalog IDs. For example, you have an objective_id but not the objective_bank_id and need to grab the objective. In the future, we plan to build that capability into the services convenience layer, to reduce the need for manual session management.:

ols = lm.get_objective_lookup_session()
objective = ols.get_objective(objective_id)