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Getting Started

Tip

Read through the Contribution Guide before making contributions to the project.

Pre-requisites

Important

The autograder unfortunately requires special setup instructions in order to operate on Windows machines.

Read Getting Started on Windows before continuing.

Node/Yarn

The frontend is built using Vue.js. To run the frontend, you will need to have yarn (see installing yarn). After installing Node if necessary, run the following to enable yarn globally (sudo may be required):

corepack enable

Backend Database

You can run the database either locally with your own MySQL server or inside a Docker container. To run the database inside its own Docker container, run the following in the root of the project:

docker compose up db -d

While you can use any root user credentials to access the MySQL database, you may be interested in creating a special login for this project. That decision is left to you. If you do create a different user, however, it will need nearly root-level permissions in any case (enough to be able to create a new database, then create a "student" user and GRANT ALL privileges to them for that database). The exact requirements are not listed here.

Quickstart Instructions

Note

These instructions will help you set up this project in IntelliJ.
If there are any holes or gaps in the instructions, please submit a new pull request
to preserve the learned knowledge for future generations.

1. Clone the Repo onto your local machine

Any variation of the following will work.

git clone https://github.com/softwareconstruction240/autograder.git

Additionally, you can also leverage Intelli-J's "File > New > New Project from Version Control" feature which will do it for you given a GitHub link.

2. Use the latest version of the JVM

The system currently requires version 21+.

Go fish🐟 Specific instructions to update are not included here.

3. Install front end dependencies

Caution

Windows If using WSL, run this from an actual WSL terminal.
Windows-based shells, even POSIX ones, won't install the correct files.

Use yarn to install all dependencies. This must be done from the front end root folder.

cd src/main/resources/frontend
yarn

4. Setup "Server" Run Configuration

Do the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the server file: src/main/java/edu/byu/cs/server/Server.java
  2. Click the "Run" button to run Server.main()
  3. This will give you a Run Configuration that you can modify in the following steps.

5. Set up Program Arguments

For both deployment and development, the following program arguments are required to be set. Some typical values for development are provided; notice that the URLs all reference localhost, but the port numbers have been filled in with default values. Update these as needed to match your environment.

Do the following actions:

  1. Refer to the required arguments below
  2. Fill in the appropriate values for each of the
  3. Prepare the arguments by reformatting them onto a single line
    • Ex. --arg-1 arg1Val --arg-2 arg2Val
  4. Edit the "Server" run configuration
  5. Save & apply the changes

Required Program Arguments

Caution

Windows users cannot simply use these arguments like users of other platforms can.
See Windows Setup Instructions for more details.

--db-user <username>
--db-pass <password>
--db-host localhost
--db-port 3306
--db-name autograder
--frontend-url http://localhost:5173
--cas-callback-url http://localhost:8080/auth/callback

# Use one of the following, but not both
--canvas-token <canvas api key>
--use-canvas false

6. Run the Autograder Locally

Do the following steps:

  1. Run your "Server" run configuration
  2. Run the frontend with the following shell commands

Note

Windows In the case you are running on the Autograder inside a dev container,
you may need to add the --host option at the end of the yarn dev command (yarn dev --host).

cd src/main/resources/frontend
yarn dev

7. (Optional) Setup Canvas Integration

Tip

This is only required if you hope to transfer data to Canvas during your workflow;
otherwise, use the --use-canvas false program argument and skip this step.

To link the autograder with Canvas, you will need to generate a Canvas API key and set the autograder to the current Course and Assignment ID numbers on Canvas.

If you don't need Canvas integration, --canvas-token <canvas api key> can be replaced with --use-canvas false, which mocks Canvas calls. Then, you can skip this section.

Canvas API Key

A Canvas Authorization Key is required to link the project to Canvas.

To generate a Canvas API key:

  1. Login to Canvas
  2. Visit your Profile Settings
    • Navigate here manually as "Account > Settings"
  3. Scroll down to the Approved Integrations section
  4. Click "+ New Access Token"
  5. Provide the requested information in the modal box
  6. Copy the generated access token
  7. Add the token along side your other program arguments from step #5
    • Add the argument --canvas-token <canvas api token>

Canvas Data

To update Canvas course ID:

  1. Go to Canvas and select the current CS 240 course
  2. The URL should change to something like https://byu.instructure.com/courses/<course_number>
  3. Extract <course_number> from the url
    • This is the number that needs to end up in the configuration table
  4. You can set this by logging into the autograder and using the Update Manually button in the Config tab
    1. Click that button and modify the Course Number input
    2. Click Submit

To ensure that the assignment IDs and rubric IDs/points are synced with Canvas:

  1. Go to the config tab of the AutoGrader
  2. Select the button Update using Canvas
  3. Select Yes

Note

If there's an issue with the process, you may need to explore updating the course IDs manually.
This can be done directly though the database's configuration table or by clicking Update Manually in the config tab.

Additionally, if you want (not required), you can insert values into the configuration table manually (although the step above should do it automatically). See Insert config SQL Statements.

8. (Optional) Environment Variables

Tip

This is only required when running Loki locally;
otherwise, simply skip this step.

If you are running Loki locally (not required), then you must set the LOKI_URL environment variable. The value can be either localhost:3100 (if you are NOT using docker to develop the app) or loki:3100 (if you are using docker to develop the app).

9. Loading the Configuration Related Tables

Important

If you had the autograder prior to 'SUMMER 2024', there is a separate "update" set of SQL commands to use.
See Update rubric_config SQL Statements.

This is required.

As of right now, you will need to manually insert the correct values into the rubric_config table before being able to run the actual grading on the autograder. See Insert rubric_config SQL Statements.

Insert the commands using a SQL client of your choice on your machine (MySql Shell, SQLWorkbench, or Intelli-J's built in tools).