CodeGra.fs 0.5.0

File-system for CodeGrade instances

CodeGra.fs

Installation

CodeGra.fs should work on all popular operating systems: GNU/Linux, MacOS and Windows. The support for windows is currently experimental: we would love to hear your feedback!

GNU/Linux and MacOS

The installation for GNU/Linux and mac is done using pip: sudo pip install CodeGra.fs. This installs three scripts, cgfs used to mount the file-system, cgfs-qt a GUI that can be used to mount the file-system, and cgapi-consumer used by editor plugins. You can also install cgfs by giving pip the --user flag, however make sure $HOME/.local/bin is in your $PATH in this case.

Please note that pip3 is used, this because CodeGra.fs only with works with python 3.5 or higher. For MacOS this will probably mean you need to install Python3, you can do this using homebrew (brew install python) or by doing python here.

On GNU/Linux and MacOS CodeGra.fs depends on:

• fusepy
• requests

Windows (experimental)

Installation on windows can also be done by using pip, however we also supply an installer. You can download the installer for the latest release here. The installer doesn't install the command line cgfs script, if you need this script for whatever reason simply install the package using pip.

When using the Windows installer you still need to install WinFsp separately. Currently only version 1.4B3 is supported (which is in beta), you can download it here.

When installing using pip CodeGra.fs depends on:

• fusepy
• requests
• cffi
• WinFsp installed with dev headers.
• winfspy

Usage

Command line usage

The basic used of the cgfs can be viewed by executing cgfs --help. The idea behind cgfs is that you mount a CodeGra.de instance on you local computer, in the mounted folder you can now browse, alter and delete files submitted by yourself and people you have to grade.

GUI usage

If you prefer to use a GUI you can use the cgfs-qt command. This is a simple GUI to use CodeGra.fs. Please note that this GUI is still in alpha state. To use the GUI fill in all required fields, you can get help for each field by clicking the question mark, and click mount. You will now see a output field stating 'Mounting...' and a bit later 'Mounted...'. You can now use the file system as normal. To unmount simply click 'Stop!'.

Available files

The basic layout of the file-system is /course/assingment/submission - submission_time, so for example /datastructures/linked-list/Thomas Schaper - 2017-11-14T13:41:26.324712. All files that a student submitted can be found in the submission folder.

The file-system also contains a few special files, these are files that are not submitted by a student but can be used to control CodeGra.de. These files are validated on a close, which fails if the file format is not correct. The following special files exist:

Name	Editable1	Location	Use	Format
.api.socket	✗	Root	Location of the api socket	Single line with file location
.cg-mode	✗	Root	Mode file system	FIXED or NOT_FIXED
.cg-assignment-id	✗	Assignment	Id of this assignment	Single line with id
.cg-assignment-settings.ini	✓	Assignment	Settings for this assignment	Ini file with settings
.cg-edit-rubric.md	✓	Assignment	Rubric for this assignment, editing changes the rubric	See .cd-edit-rubric.help
.cg-edit-rubric.help	✗	Assignment	Help file for the rubric file	Plain text file
.cg-feedback	✓	Submission	The general feedback for this submission	Plain text file
.cg-grade	✓	Submission	The grade for this submission	Single float or empty to delete or reset2 the grade
.cg-rubric.md	✓3	Submission	The rubric for this submission	Markdown file where a ticked box means the item is selected.
.cg-submission-id	✗	Submission	Id of this submission	Single line with id

¹: Only if you have the correct permissions.

²: The grade is reset if a rubric grade is available, otherwise it is deleted.

³: Only markdown checkboxes should be changed.

It can happen that you didn't follow the exact format of the special file and can't easily recover anymore. This isn't a really big deal, you can write the string __RESET__ to any writable special file to reset it to its server state.

CodeGra.fs is best used in combination with an editor plugin, such plugins exist for emacs and atom and more are being created.

Privacy

You can use CodeGra.fs for any CodeGrade instance. The application does a version check at every startup, this is done by doing a request to https://codegra.de/.cgfs.version. We do not collect any personal information at this route. It is currently not possible to disable this version check. If this request is a problem for you, it is possible to block this host/url: CodeGra.fs will continue to function normally; creating a pull request to make this check optional is also possible of course!

Support

Please report any issues by creating a GitHub issue here, if possible please include link to uploaded a log output when encountering the bug using the verbose mode (use the --verbose command line flag, or click 'verbose' in the GUI). You can upload logs to any pastebin like website, for example glot.io.

Commercial support of CodeGra.fs is available and included in a commercial CodeGrade instance. We would love to provide more information, please send an e-mail to [e-mail]!

License

CodeGra.fs as a whole is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0-only). All license identifiers used in this product are SPDX license identifiers.