View source for CSC/ECE 517 Spring 2025 - E2540 Integration of Assignment participant Frontend with participant controller Backend

== Introduction ==

This project aims to fix the defects and improve the functionality in Expertiza of the Participants UI and integration. It will make the functionality smoother, more reliable, and align with Expertiza's collaborative learning objectives.

The participants tab is linked to the Assignments tab and contains a table of participants in an assignment. It allows the user to add, delete and edit participants as well. 


=== Project Goals ===
There are 2 main goals for this project - 

- Appropriately integrating the frontend to the backend which currently fetches static data and is not connected to the backend robustly.
- Changing up the UI to match the novel standards set by the new version using the design document. It will involve formatting and using the recommended guidelines to implement parts of the page such as tables and table filtering.

== Proposed Changes ==

=== Manage Participant Frontend Integration ===

==== Problem ====

The current implementation makes use of API calls to incorrect routes. This may be due to the frontend being implemented before the backend and wrong assumptions were made, or the backend's code has been updated without changing the frontend. In either case, the frontend needs to be properly integrated with the backend.

[[File:E2540-before-ParticipantCode.png | 500px]]

The screenshot shows the current API calls. Notice that one of the URLs is "participants/[type]/[id]". This is intended to fetch the participants to put into the table. However, the closest URLs are either "participants/user/[id]" or "participants/assignment/[id]". The URLs for applying CRUD to participants need to be updated to conform with the backend.

==== Solution ====

Update the URLs of the API calls to properly integrate with the backend. There also needs to be logic to handle getting participants by user or by assignment.

=== Update Frontend UI ===

==== Problem ====
Participants list page

[[File:Spring 2025 - E2540_Participants_list_page.png |900px|]]

==== Solution ====

== Testing ==