Packet

Configuration for the packet of questions that is used for prompts and testing of problems.

[packet]
title = "Example Packet"
preamble = '''
This is an optional preamble that has markdown support.  This preamble
will be shown on the first page of the packet.
'''

[[packet.problems]]
title = "Reversing a string"
description = '''
Accept a single string as input.  You must reverse the order of this
string and print it back out.
'''

[[packet.problems.tests]]
input = "hello"
output = "olleh"
visible = true
trim_output = true

[[packet.problems.tests]]
input = "world"
output = "dlrow"
visible = true
trim_output = true

[[packet.problems.tests]]
input = ""
output = ""
trim_output = true

[[packet.problems.tests]]
input = "aa"
output = "aa"
trim_output = true

[[packet.problems.tests]]
input = "racecar"
output = "racecar"
trim_output = true

Problems

The problems array contains all of the problems that will be presented to the user in packet.

• title - the title of this problem, this will also be used as a preview in the UI.
• description - Detailed description of this problem, supports Markdown
• supported_languages - Optional list of languages that are allowed for this problem. All languages must appear in the Languages configuration.

Tests

Each problem contains a suite of tests that will be used to validate the code that the competitor has submitted.

• input - Input that will be provided to the competitor’s program through standard input
• output - Expected output that the competitor’s code should produce out to standard output
• trim_output - Whether the output should be have starting and trailing whitespace removed before comparing. i.e., " hello " would match "hello"
• visible - Whether this test should be visible to the user. The first visible test listed will be shown as an example in the problem description.

Imports

Many items in the packet spec may be imported from neighbouring files.

packet:

packet = { import = "./packet.toml" }

packet.preamble:

[packet]
preamble = { import = "./preamble.md" }

packet.problems:

[[packet.problems]]
import = "./problem1.toml"

[[packet.problems]]
import = "./problem2.toml"

# OR

[packet]
problems = [{ import = "./problem1.toml" },
            { import = "./problem2.toml" }]