Usage

This section describes advanced usage of the checker.

CLI

The main checker functionality is available via CLI.

checker

Manytask checker - automated tests for students' assignments.

Usage:

checker [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:

Name	Type	Description	Default
--checker-config	path	Path to the checker config file.	.checker.yml
--deadlines-config	path	Path to the deadlines config file.	.deadlines.yml
--version	boolean	Show the version and exit.	False
--help	boolean	Show this message and exit.	False

Subcommands

• check: Check private repository: run tests, lint etc. First forces validation.
• export: Export tasks from reference to public repository.
• grade: Process the configuration file and grade the tasks.
• validate: Validate the configuration files, plugins and tasks.

checker check

Check private repository: run tests, lint etc. First forces validation.

1. Run validate command.
2. Export tasks to temporary directory for testing.
3. Run pipelines: global, tasks and (dry-run) report.
4. Cleanup temporary directory.

Usage:

checker check [OPTIONS] [ROOT] [REFERENCE_ROOT]

Options:

Name	Type	Description	Default
-t, --task	text	Task name to check (multiple possible)	None
-g, --group	text	Group name to check (multiple possible)	None
-p, --parallelize	boolean	Execute parallel checking of tasks	True
-n, --num-processes	integer	Num of processes parallel checking	4
--no-clean	boolean	Clean or not check tmp folders	False
-v, --verbose / -s, --silent	boolean	Verbose tests output	True
--dry-run	boolean	Do not execute anything, only log actions	False
--help	boolean	Show this message and exit.	False

checker export

Export tasks from reference to public repository.

Usage:

checker export [OPTIONS] [REFERENCE_ROOT] [EXPORT_ROOT]

Options:

Name	Type	Description	Default
--commit	boolean	Commit and push changes to the repository	False
--dry-run	boolean	Do not execute anything, only log actions	False
--help	boolean	Show this message and exit.	False

checker grade

Process the configuration file and grade the tasks.

1. Detect changes to test.
2. Export tasks to temporary directory for testing.
3. Run pipelines: global, tasks and report.
4. Cleanup temporary directory.

Usage:

checker grade [OPTIONS] [ROOT] [REFERENCE_ROOT]

Options:

Name	Type	Description	Default
--submit-score	boolean	Submit score to the Manytask server	False
--timestamp	text	Timestamp to use for the submission	None
--username	text	Username to use for the submission	None
--no-clean	boolean	Clean or not check tmp folders	False
-v, --verbose / -s, --silent	boolean	Verbose tests output	False
--dry-run	boolean	Do not execute anything, only log actions	False
--help	boolean	Show this message and exit.	False

checker validate

Validate the configuration files, plugins and tasks.

1. Validate the configuration files content.
2. Validate mentioned plugins.
3. Check all tasks are valid and consistent with the deadlines.

Usage:

checker validate [OPTIONS] [ROOT]

Options:

Name	Type	Description	Default
-v, --verbose / -s, --silent	boolean	Verbose output	True
--help	boolean	Show this message and exit.	False

Docker

Also, we provide a docker image with checker installed.
We have tried to optimize it, but you may want to create your own image from scratch.

The docker entrypoint is checker script, so you can use it as a CLI application.

docker run --rm -it manytask/checker --help