CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2021 - E2138. Auto-generate submission directory names based on assignment

This wiki page describes the changes made under E2138, in order to auto-generate submission directory names based on assignment names for Fall 2021, CSC/ECE 517.

Overview

About Expertiza

Expertiza is an open source project based on Ruby on Rails framework. Expertiza allows the instructor to create new assignments and customize new or existing assignments. It also allows the instructor to create a list of topics the students can sign up for. Students can form teams in Expertiza to work on various projects and assignments. Students can also peer review other students' submissions. Expertiza supports submission across various document types, including the URLs and wiki pages.

Issues for this project

TODO

Project implementation

Submitted work and demonstration of project

• Link to deployed code on NCSU VCL
• Link to the beta branch of our Github repository

Files involved

• app/views/assignments/edit/_general.html.erb - added function that auto generate directory name, and substitute its spacebar with underscore.
• app/models/assignment.rb - added presence and uniqueness validation to assignment.
• app/controllers/assignments_controller.rb - modify create method to check for existing assignment name & directory.

Changes made to code

views

The following code was added to app/views/assignments/edit/_general.html.erb. The purpose is to generate submission directory name from the assignment name and substitute the spacebar with underscore.

<script>
...
$(function() {
    $("#assignment_form_assignment_name").change(function() {
        filename = $( "#assignment_form_assignment_name" ).val().replace(/ /g,"_").replace(/[/\\?%*:|"<>/$&!#%^@]/g, '');;
        $('#assignment_form_assignment_directory_path').val(filename);
    });
});

function autogenerate_submission(){
  assignment_form.assignment.directory_path = assignment_form.assignment.name;
}
</script>

models

The following code was added to app/models/assignment.rb's Assignment class, to add validation for assignment name and directory.

  validates :directory_path, presence: true # E2138 Validation for unique submission directory
  validates :directory_path, uniqueness: {scope: :course_id}

controllers

The following code was modified in app/controllers/assignments_controller.rb's create method, adding checks for assignment name and directory when creating assignment.

Before

  def create
     @assignment_form = AssignmentForm.new(assignment_form_params)
     if params[:button]
       if @assignment_form.save
         @assignment_form.create_assignment_node
         exist_assignment = Assignment.find_by(id: @assignment_form.assignment.id)
         assignment_form_params[:assignment][:id] = exist_assignment.id.to_s
         if assignment_form_params[:assignment][:directory_path].blank?
           assignment_form_params[:assignment][:directory_path] = "assignment_#{assignment_form_params[:assignment][:id]}"
         end
         ques_array = assignment_form_params[:assignment_questionnaire]
         due_array = assignment_form_params[:due_date]
         ques_array.each do |cur_questionnaire|
           cur_questionnaire[:assignment_id] = exist_assignment.id.to_s
         end
         due_array.each do |cur_due|
           cur_due[:parent_id] = exist_assignment.id.to_s
         end
         assignment_form_params[:assignment_questionnaire] = ques_array
         assignment_form_params[:due_date] = due_array
         @assignment_form.update(assignment_form_params, current_user)
         aid = Assignment.find_by(id: @assignment_form.assignment.id).id
         ExpertizaLogger.info "Assignment created: #{@assignment_form.as_json}"
         redirect_to edit_assignment_path aid
         undo_link("Assignment \"#{@assignment_form.assignment.name}\" has been created successfully. ")
         return
       else
         flash.now[:error] = "Failed to create assignment"
         render 'new'
       end
     else
       render 'new'
      undo_link("Assignment \"#{@assignment_form.assignment.name}\" has been created successfully. ")
    end
  end

After

  def create
    @assignment_form = AssignmentForm.new(assignment_form_params)
    if params[:button]
      # E2138 issue #3
      find_existing_assignment = Assignment.find_by(name: @assignment_form.assignment.name, course_id: @assignment_form.assignment.course_id)
      dir_path = assignment_form_params[:assignment][:directory_path]
      find_existing_directory = Assignment.find_by(directory_path: dir_path, course_id: @assignment_form.assignment.course_id)
      if !find_existing_assignment and !find_existing_directory and @assignment_form.save #No existing names/directories 
        @assignment_form.create_assignment_node
        current_assignment = Assignment.find_by(name: @assignment_form.assignment.name, course_id: @assignment_form.assignment.course_id)
        assignment_form_params[:assignment][:id] = current_assignment.id.to_s
        ques_array = assignment_form_params[:assignment_questionnaire]
        due_array = assignment_form_params[:due_date]
        ques_array.each do |cur_questionnaire|
          cur_questionnaire[:assignment_id] = current_assignment.id.to_s
        end
        due_array.each do |cur_due|
          cur_due[:parent_id] = current_assignment.id.to_s
        end
        assignment_form_params[:assignment_questionnaire] = ques_array
        assignment_form_params[:due_date] = due_array
        @assignment_form.update(assignment_form_params, current_user)
        aid = Assignment.find_by(name: @assignment_form.assignment.name, course_id: @assignment_form.assignment.course_id).id
        ExpertizaLogger.info "Assignment created: #{@assignment_form.as_json}"
        redirect_to edit_assignment_path aid
        undo_link("Assignment \"#{@assignment_form.assignment.name}\" has been created successfully. ")
        return
      else
        flash[:error] = "Failed to create assignment."
        if find_existing_assignment
          flash[:error] << "<br>  " + @assignment_form.assignment.name + " already exists as an assignment name"
        end
        if find_existing_directory
          flash[:error] << "<br>  " + dir_path + " already exists as a submission directory name"
        end
        redirect_to "/assignments/new?private=1"
      end
    else
      render 'new'
      undo_link("Assignment \"#{@assignment_form.assignment.name}\" has been created successfully. ")
    end
  end

Test Plan

Manual UI Testing

The following steps must be performed to test the project UI:

Step 1: Log in as an Instructor, with Username - instructor6, Password - password




Step 2: Create a new assignment. In this case our assignment is called "E2054 Test Assignment", under course CSC 216 Fall 2009

Team Information

Mentor: John Bumgardner (jwbumga2)

Robin Piao (lpiao)

Shengjie Guo (sguo25)

Haoze Du (hdu5)