This article consists of two parts: the sandbox for GCC and the sandbox for the compiled binary. the sandbox for GCC Essentially, our sandbox for GCC is a wrapper of GCC with a watchdog, just like the sandbox we designed for the Java compiler. However, there are more situations need to be considered carefully for GCC. In … Continue reading "Online Judge from Scratch(3) – Sandbox"

The dispatcher, as the name implies, fetches judge tasks from RabbitMQ, dispatches them to the sandbox workers and gets the results back synchronously. In Justice, the sandboxes are language-specific: If the submission is written in Java, we can sandbox it with Java Security Manager. If the submission is written in C/CPP, we need another sandbox … Continue reading "Online Judge from Scratch(2) – Dispatcher"

The frontend of Justice contains two sites: the web UI for users and the admin panel for administrators, the main reason to choose Yii2 is the Advanced Application Template provides both succinct project structure and great convenience to share the same logic between the two sites: Besides, we improved Yii2’s MVC pattern by adding an … Continue reading "Online Judge from Scratch(1) – Frontend"

An online judge system(like codeforces, leetcode, etc) contains a problem set of algorithms to solve, while users can compile a piece of code and execute the generated binary with pre-constructed data to test if the code is correct. However details of algorithms won’t be discussed here, we mainly focus on how to build an online judge … Continue reading "Online Judge from Scratch(0) – Architecture"