Adding contest data programmatically

DOMjudge offers API endpoints to add or update contest data programmatically. In general, we try to follow the CLICS CCS specification for all file formats involved.

All of the following examples require you to set up admin credentials in your .netrc file (for format see under submit client). You need to install httpie and replace the <API_URL> in the examples below with the API URL of your local DOMjudge installation.

Importing team categories

Prepare a file called groups.tsv which contains the team categories. The first line should contain File_Version 1 (tab-separated). Each of the following lines must contain the following elements separated by tabs:

  • the category ID

  • the name of the team category

Example groups.tsv:

File_Version   1
13337        Companies
47   Netherlands
23   United Kingdom

To import the file run the following command:

http --check-status -b -f POST "<API_URL>/users/groups" tsv@groups.tsv

Importing teams

Prepare a file called teams2.tsv which contains the teams. The first line should contain File_Version    2 (tab-separated). Each of the following lines must contain the following elements separated by tabs:

  • the team ID

  • an external ID, e.g. from the ICPC CMS, may be empty

  • the category ID

  • the team name

  • the institution name

  • the institution short name

  • a country code in form of ISO 3166-1 alpha-3

  • an external institution ID, e.g. from the ICPC CMS, may be empty

Example teams2.tsv:

File_Version   2
1    447047  24      ¡i¡i¡   Lund University LU      SWE     INST-42
2    447837  25      Pleading not FAUlty     Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg       FAU     DEU     INST-43

To import the file run the following command:

http --check-status -b -f POST "<API_URL>/users/teams" tsv@teams2.tsv

Importing accounts

Prepare a file called accounts.tsv which contains the team credentials. The first line should contain accounts  1 (tab-separated). Each of the following lines must contain the following elements separated by tabs:

  • the user type, one of team or judge

  • the full name of the user

  • the username

  • the password

Example accounts.tsv:

accounts     1
team team001 team001 P3xm33imve
team team002 team002 qd4WHeJXbd
judge        John Doe        john    Uf4PYRA7mJ

To import the file run the following command:

http --check-status -b -f POST "<API_URL>/users/accounts" tsv@accounts.tsv

Importing contest metadata

Prepare a file called contest.yaml which contains the contest information and a file called problemset.yaml which contains the problemset information.

Example contest.yaml:

name:                     DOMjudge open practice session
short-name:               practice
start-time:               2020-04-30T10:00:00+01:00
duration:                 2:00:00
scoreboard-freeze-length: 0:30:00
penalty-time:             20

Example problemset.yaml:

problems:
  - letter:     A
    short-name: hello
    color:      Orange
    rgb:        '#FF7109'

  - letter:     B
    short-name: boolfind
    color:      Forest Green
    rgb:        '#008100'

Concatenate both YAML files into one and then import the combined file by running the following command:

http --check-status -b -f POST "<API_URL>/contests" yaml@combined.yaml

This call returns the new contest ID.

Importing problems

Prepare your problems in the ICPC problem format and create a ZIP file for each problem and upload it by running the following command:

http --check-status -b -f POST "<API_URL>/contests/<CID>/problems" zip[]@problem.zip problem="<PROBID>"

Replace <CID> with the contest ID that the previous command returns and <PROBID> with the problem ID (you can get that from the web interface or the API).

Putting it all together

If you prepare your contest configuration as we described in the previous subsections, you can also use the script that we provide in misc-tools/import-contest.sh.

Call it from your contest folder like this:

misc-tools/import-contest.sh <API_URL>