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![Communication schema](https://github.com/ReCodEx/wiki/raw/master/images/Backend_Connections.png)
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### Job Configuration
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@todo: link to execution unit executed by recodex and lets give this chapter a bit of petite description
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@todo: discuss what should be in configuration: limits, dependencies, priorities... whatever
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#### Supplementary Files
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Interesting problem arise with supplementary files (e.g., inputs, sample
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outputs). There are two approaches which can be observed. Supplementary files
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can be downloaded either on the start of the execution or during execution.
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If the files are downloaded at the beginning, execution does not really started
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at this point and thus if there are problems with network, worker will find it
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right away and can abort execution without executing single task. Slight
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problems can arise if some of the files needs to have same name (e.g. solution
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assumes that input is `input.txt`), in this scenario downloaded files cannot be
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renamed at the beginning but during execution which is somehow impractical and
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not easily observed by the authors of job configurations.
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Second solution of this problem when files are downloaded on the fly has quite
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opposite problem, if there are problems with network, worker will find it during
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execution when for instance almost whole execution is done, this is also not
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ideal solution if we care about burnt hardware resources. On the other hand
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using this approach users have quite advanced control of execution flow and know
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what files exactly are available during execution which is from users
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perspective probably more appealing then the first solution. Based on that,
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downloading of supplementary files using 'fetch' tasks during execution was
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chosen and implemented.
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#### Job Variables
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As mentioned above worker has job directories but users who are writing and
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managing job configurations do not know where they are (on some particular
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worker) and how they can be accessed and written into configuration. For this
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kind of task we have to introduce some kind of marks or signs which will
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represent particular folders. Marks or signs can have form broadly used
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variables.
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Variables can be used everywhere where filesystem paths are used within
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configuration file. This will solve problem with specific worker environment and
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specific hierarchy of directories. Final form of variables is `${...}` where
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triple dot is textual description. This format was used because of special
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dollar sign character which cannot be used within filesystem path, braces are
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there only to border textual description of variable.
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### Broker
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The broker is responsible for keeping track of available workers and
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@ -1078,44 +1124,48 @@ kind of in-process messages. The ZeroMQ library which we already use provides
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in-process messages that work on the same principles as network communication,
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which is convenient and solves problems with thread synchronization.
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#### Evaluation
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#### Execution of Jobs
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At this point we have worker with two internal parts listening one and execution
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one. Implementation of first one is quite straightforward and clear. So let us
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discuss what should be happening in execution subsystem.
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After successful arrival of job, worker has to prepare new execution
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environment, then solution archive has to be downloaded from fileserver and
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extracted. Job configuration is located within these files and loaded into
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After successful arrival of the job from broker to the listening thread, the job
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is immediatelly redirected to execution thread. In there worker has to prepare
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new execution environment, solution archive has to be downloaded from fileserver
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and extracted. Job configuration is located within these files and loaded into
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internal structures and executed. After that, results are uploaded back to
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fileserver. These steps are the basic ones which are really necessary for whole
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execution and have to be executed in this precise order.
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#### Job Configuration
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Jobs as work units can quite vary and do completely different things, that means
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configuration and worker has to be prepared for this kind of generality.
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Configuration and its solution was already discussed above, implementation in
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worker is then quite also quite straightforward.
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The evaluation unit executed by ReCodEx and job configuration were already
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discussed above. The conclusion was that jobs containing small tasks will be
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used. Particular format of the actual job configuration can be found in 'Job
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configuration' appendix. Implementation of parsing and storing these data in
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worker is then quite straightforward.
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Worker has internal structures to which loads and which stores metadata given in
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configuration. Whole job is mapped to job metadata structure and tasks are
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mapped to either external ones or internal ones (internal commands has to be
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defined within worker), both are different whether they are executed in sandbox
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or as internal worker commands.
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or as an internal worker commands.
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#### Task Execution Failure
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Another division of tasks is by task-type field in configuration. This field can
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have four values: initiation, execution, evaluation and inner. All was discussed
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and described above in configuration analysis. What is important to worker is
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and described above in evaluation unit analysis. What is important to worker is
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how to behave if execution of task with some particular type fails.
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There are two possible situations execution fails due to bad user solution or
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due to some internal error. If execution fails on internal error solution cannot
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be declared overly as failed. User should not be punished for bad configuration
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or some network error. This is where task types are useful. Generally
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initiation, execution and evaluation are tasks which are somehow executing code
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or some network error. This is where task types are useful.
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Initiation, execution and evaluation are tasks which are usually executing code
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which was given by users who submitted solution of exercise. If this kinds of
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tasks fail it is probably connected with bad user solution and can be evaluated.
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But if some inner task fails solution should be re-executed, in best case
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scenario on different worker. That is why if inner task fails it is sent back to
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broker which will reassign job to another worker. More on this subject should be
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@ -1151,45 +1201,6 @@ searching through this system should be easy. In addition if solutions of users
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have access only to evaluation directory then they do not have access to
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unnecessary files which is better for overall security of whole ReCodEx.
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#### Job Variables
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As mentioned above worker has job directories but users who are writing and
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managing job configurations do not know where they are (on some particular
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worker) and how they can be accessed and written into configuration. For this
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kind of task we have to introduce some kind of marks or signs which will
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represent particular folders. Marks or signs can have form broadly used
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variables.
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Variables can be used everywhere where filesystem paths are used within
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configuration file. This will solve problem with specific worker environment and
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specific hierarchy of directories. Final form of variables is `${...}` where
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triple dot is textual description. This format was used because of special
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dollar sign character which cannot be used within filesystem path, braces are
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there only to border textual description of variable.
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#### Supplementary Files
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Interesting problem is with supplementary files (inputs, sample outputs). There
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are two approaches which can be observed. Supplementary files can be downloaded
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either on the start of the execution or during execution. If the files are
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downloaded at the beginning, execution does not really started at this point and
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if there are problems with network worker will find it right away and can abort
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execution without executing single task. Slight problems can arise if some of
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`input.txt`), in this scenario downloaded files cannot be renamed at the
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beginning but during execution which is somehow impractical and not easily
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observed.
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Second solution of this problem when files are downloaded on the fly has quite
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opposite problem, if there are problems with network, worker will find it during
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execution when for instance almost whole execution is done, this is also not
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perspective probably more appealing then the first solution. Based on that,
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### Sandboxing
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There are numerous ways how to approach sandboxing on different platforms,
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