How to extend INGInious

Creating a new frontend

INGInious is mainly a backend that is agnostic. It can be used to run nearly everything. The backend’s code is in Backend queue. You must use these classes to run new jobs.

The common module contains classes that are intended to be inherited by new “frontends”. The frontend given with INGInious is in fact an (big) extension of the common module. You can use it as an example on how to extend INGInious.

Creating a new agent/environment type

An agent receives submissions and grades them. For this, it must implement the class Agent.

You will probably want to start from the very simple MCQAgent and extend from that.

Your agent may need some parameters to run correctly, these parameters depending from task to task. INGInious sends, inside each submission, a dictionnary called environment_parameters. This dictionnary is filled as the frontend wants it to be filled, so you must add some behavior into the frontend for it to send what you want.

In the webapp, this can be done by extending the class inginious.frontend.environment_types.env_type.FrontendEnvType, and registering this new class using a call to the hook register_env_type(env_obj).

Special environment parameters

INGInious as a whole (i.e. both the “backend” and the webapp) look for specific environment parameters. They are not mandatory.

limits[time]

An expected timeout in seconds. Allows INGInious to predict the size of the queue, and maybe other things in the future. Any value above (>=) 0 is taken into account. Any value below (<) will be displayed as “unknown”.

response_is_html

If true, the output of the agent will be displayed directly as HTML. This is deprecated and you should probably not use it.