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Coding overhaul, failed, frustrated, Christmas break.

Not sure how much time I'll have today, but I hope I can finish the ui improvements I decided to do two days ago.

  • replace "Next" with "Next lesson" or "Chapter x: x x x" if it's the last step.
    • done
  • a tooltip that displays when hovering over the disabled "Next" button and explains to the user they need to submit first
    • done. Not sure I like it, though, but I'll leave it for now
  • fix wrong step loading on refresh
    • done

Now to tackle the issues discovered yesterday

  • failed tests not displaying nicely, raw output shown
  • run cmd called twice on submit

When I submit and something goes wrong, the submit button just keeps spinning. I should display a user friendly message and enable the button again.

I need to move my whole validation logic to the driver backend for the failed tests to work. The way I've been doing it (regex) is just not working, so I need to use structured output. To use structure output, I need to write to a file. So, I'm going to do the following

  • new endpoint POST submit/test

    • request
      • checks[]
        • type (TestPasses, OutputContains, FileContains)
        • value
        • message
        • file (for FileContains types)
    • response
      • failedChecks[]
        • type (TestPasses, OutputContains, InputContains)
        • value
        • message
      • TestOutput (xml format)

  • does the following:

    • performs input checks
    • if pre-run checks fail, returns early
    • runs dotnet test -l "trx;logfilename=/tmp/results.trx"
    • reads file, deletes file
    • performs TestPasses check and Output checks
    • returns result

I had to rip everything apart, I did so many changes I no longer know what I'm doing, spent the whole day coding.

I got it to work, finally, I also don't have the time to test all chapters thoroughly, I expect there to be more issues, especially at the regex part (which I also completely redesigned).

The step that requires the tests to fail doesn't work now, so I'll tackle that later.

So basically I spent the whole day to end up with less working features than I started with. NOT happy at all.

Tomorrow is Christmas, and my fiance is going to lose her shit if I touch the computer, so I probably won't be doing any work.