crimson tapir
i am trying to make a website that has questions like
Write an algorithm that takes in two integers a and b, and returns the sum as a result
and then the user inputs the code and submits it like a form, then the back-end runs the code against some test cases and returns the result. how can i do that in Go, and for Go code ideally?
midnight imp
maybe https://github.com/traefik/yaegi?
It's not a trivial thing to do, either try to use that, or like the #bot-testing bot does, you can send the code to the playground, another option is to actually write that into a file, compile and run, but then sandboxing is a pain
crimson tapir
It's not a trivial thing to do, either try to use that, or like the <#1239090274...
what do you mean by send the code to the playground?
midnight imp
The go team made a 'playground' which lets users run code online https://go.dev/play/
So they already went into the trouble of sandboxing everything and making it safe, so the bot in #bot-testing just takes the code that you give it, formats it a bit, and send it to be run on the playground and returns the results
crimson tapir
The go team made a 'playground' which lets users run code online <https://go.dev...
wouldn't that be pretty inefficient for running tests cases?
midnight imp
Yes
because there's a lot of pitfalls when letting users run code on your machine, what if they make an infinite loop? what if they try accessing files in the filesystem?
crimson tapir
so there's no other easy way of sandboxing it?
but my project is actually all run locally
by the user
so it's not a huge issue
crimson tapir
so there's no other easy way of sandboxing it?
but would be nice if it's not too hard
sage star
but my project is actually all run locally
How are they run locally if they’re using your website?