Quick 96hrs!! Module Assembly - TopCoder Competition Engine - Return Time Infos When Opening Problems

Project Overview

TopCoder Competition Engine is a system used for Single Round Matches (SRM) and Marathon Matches (MM).

Competition Task Overview

This challenge is expected to improve the information returned for the given problems, like saved time, compiled time and submit time.

In SRMs or Practice Rooms, when opennin a problem, it will send com.topcoder.netCommon.contestantMessages.request.OpenComponentForCodingRequest

and the backend will return

• com.topcoder.netCommon.contestantMessages.response.UpdateCoderComponentResponse
• com.topcoder.netCommon.contestantMessages.response.GetProblemResponse
• com.topcoder.netCommon.contestantMessages.response.OpenComponentResponse

The GetProblemResponse mainly return the information about the problem to be working on, and the OpenComponentResponse will return the information about the user solution, like code etc.

For this challenge, we'd like to return more informations about users' working for this problem.

Following information should be returned in OpenComponentResponse.

• Last Saved time.
• Last Compiled time
• Last Submit time.

Notes, there can be many times for save, compile and submit, the response should only return the timestamp for the last action.

Please make sure the information is returned for Problems in SRMs and Practice Rooms.

Verification

You can follow the SRM Problem Guide to carry out the standard verification process. Let me know if you need any more clarification.

About VMs

Before asking your own VM, you need to have a public key on your profile before asking for the VM.

You can find more details on how to generate a key http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/projects/Generate+SSH+Key and how to connect using it http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/projects/Connect+Using+SSH+Key.

Please reference http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/Competition+Engine+VM+Setup for general usage of Arena VM.

Previously, we have made several update for the Arena VM.  So when the Arena VM allocated is available for you, there is a problem and a SRM contest already setup, you can reuse that for testing.