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Edit mode | Split assessment files with --answer-key - #84
Edit mode can write the split assessment format (question file without answers, plus a companion answer-key file) when you pass --answer-key.
The editor form is the same. You still fill in answers there. On save they go into the answer-key file, and the question file keeps only the learner-facing content. On load the two files are merged so the answers show up in the form again.
--copy-markdown still copies the combined form, with answers inline.
Technical changes
--edit now accepts an optional --answer-key <file>. Load merges the pair into the combined markdown the editor already understands. Save splits that markdown back into a stripped question and an __Answer Key__ file.
The split/merge lives in lib/split-answer-key.js and walks markdown sections so we don't round-trip through buildActivityFromMarkdown (that parser shuffles options and items). Coverage matches the assessment examples: Text Input, MCQ (including multi-select), FIB, Matching, Matrix, Sort, and Swipe. Text Input keeps [kind] / [options] on the stripped question so the learner UI still knows the input shape.
Testing
From the repo root: node server.js --edit /tmp/q.md --answer-key /tmp/q-answer-key.md
Open http://localhost:3000/, pick Text Input (or load an existing combined file), fill in a question and a correct answer, and wait for auto-save.
Open /tmp/q.md: answers should be gone from __Correct Answers__, with [kind] / [options] still present if they were set.
Open /tmp/q-answer-key.md: it should have __Answer Key__ with - Question 1: ....
Reload the editor: the answers you typed should still be in the form.
Repeat with Multiple Choice (mark two options correct) and confirm the question file has multi-select under __Question Options__ and the key lists both labels.
Without --answer-key, confirm edit mode still writes one combined file, as before.
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The change adds conversion between combined activity Markdown and separate question and answer-key Markdown for seven activity types. Editor mode can use an optional answer-key file when loading and saving. The README documents the CLI option, editor page, and API behavior. New tests cover splitting, merging, escaping, and round trips. The editor also stops initialization and saves after a load failure.
Loading and saving a Text Input question with an empty keyed answer can remove its validation settings. Preserve those settings before merging.
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- Around line 88-92: Update the Sort handling in splitSort and mergeSort to
escape item text before writing it to question files or answer keys, so literal
colons and backslashes remain distinct from Sort syntax when parsed again; reuse
one Sort-specific escaping helper and leave non-Sort paths unchanged.
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- Around line 63-66: Update the CLI argument parsing for --answer-key and --edit
to fail fast when the operand is missing or exactly matches another known flag;
do not reject operands solely because they begin with a hyphen. Keep resolving
valid operands through resolveCliPath and assigning them to the corresponding
path variable.
- Around line 63-66: Validate the resolved paths for --edit and --answer-key
before the editor starts; when EDIT_MODE is enabled and EDIT_FILE_PATH equals
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existing behavior that ignores --answer-key when edit mode is disabled.
- Around line 122-128: Update writeUtf8File and the /api/editor/save flow to
write each split file to a temporary file in its target directory and rename it
into place, writing the answer key before the question file. Add consistency or
recovery handling for failures between the renames so a failed save cannot leave
a mismatched pair available to /api/editor/load.
- Around line 274-286: In the answer-key load handler, return a non-OK response
when reading or merging fails instead of responding with question-only markdown.
In public/editor.js, track load failure separately from markdown content and
have saveMarkdown reject saves while that state is set; preserve support for
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Supported by static analysis
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sed -n '115,135p;265,345p' server.js
rg -n 'autosave|api/editor/save|api/editor/load' public/editor.html
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Write split files with atomic replacement and preserve a consistent pair.
/api/editor/save writes the stripped question file before the answer-key file. If the answer-key write fails, the question file remains updated while the previous answer key remains on disk. A later /api/editor/load can merge the new question with stale answers and discard newer answer edits.
Direct fs.writeFile can also expose a partially written target to a concurrent load or leave one after a process failure. Writing each file to a temporary file in the same directory and renaming it reduces this exposure. However, atomic renames alone do not make the two-file save transactional. Write the answer key first, then replace the question file, and define recovery or consistency handling for failures between the two renames.
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[warning] 127-127: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
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Update writeUtf8File and the /api/editor/save flow to write each split file to a
temporary file in its target directory and rename it into place, writing the
answer key before the question file. Add consistency or recovery handling for
failures between the renames so a failed save cannot leave a mismatched pair
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I changed save to write the answer key first, then the question file, so a failed question write does not leave a stripped question paired with a stale key.
Temp-file rename plus recovery for a two-file pair is more machinery than this local editor needs, so I am leaving that off.
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@BrianGenisio Understood. I won’t press for temporary-file renames or recovery in this local editor.
Writing the answer key first avoids updating the question when the answer-key write fails. One risk remains: if the subsequent question write fails, the new answer key can be paired with an old or partially written question.
Would you like a follow-up issue for that remaining risk?
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- Line 348: Update writeUtf8File to catch directory-creation errors from
fs.mkdirSync and pass them to its callback instead of throwing. In the
question-file write callback, handle that error by returning HTTP 500 without
terminating the editor server.
- Line 343: Update the load endpoint’s missing-question ENOENT handling to check
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Load now returns 409 in that case. Directory-creation errors on save go through the write callback instead of throwing in the request handler.
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Major · Reject answer keys whose __Type__ differs from the question, or that hold… · server.js:301-304
server.js:301-304 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reject answer keys whose __Type__ differs from the question, or that hold content but yield no entries.
mergeQuestionAndAnswerKey takes the type from the question and never compares it with the key's __Type__. A non-empty key with no parseable entries also loads as the bare question. The editor then shows empty answers, and a later save from the editor rewrites the key file from the form state. A mismatched key can merge into wrong answers and still load with HTTP 200.
Keep loading for the scaffold that formatAnswerKeyMarkdown writes when a question has no answers. Reject a key whose __Type__ differs from the question type. Reject non-empty key content that yields no entries. Return a non-OK response from /api/editor/load in both cases. Do not add a plain throw on empty parsed answers: that would break reloading a question saved with blank answers.
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Update `mergeQuestionAndAnswerKey` and the `/api/editor/load` flow to reject
answer keys whose `__Type__` differs from the question and non-empty key content
that produces no entries, returning a non-OK response for either case. Preserve
loading of the empty-answer scaffold generated by `formatAnswerKeyMarkdown`; do
not reject merely because parsed answers are empty.
Minor · Reject non-string markdown payloads. · server.js:337-339
server.js:337-339 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject non-string markdown payloads.
When split mode is enabled, splitCombinedMarkdown converts any truthy value with String(...). A request with {"markdown":{}} can therefore write [object Object] to the question file and an empty answer key, then return success. Validate typeof data.markdown === 'string' before splitting and return HTTP 400 otherwise. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Validate that data.markdown is a string before calling splitCombinedMarkdown in
the split-mode flow; return HTTP 400 for non-string payloads and only split
valid string input.
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- Around line 337-339: Validate that data.markdown is a string before calling
splitCombinedMarkdown in the split-mode flow; return HTTP 400 for non-string
payloads and only split valid string input.
- Around line 301-304: Update `mergeQuestionAndAnswerKey` and the
`/api/editor/load` flow to reject answer keys whose `__Type__` differs from the
question and non-empty key content that produces no entries, returning a non-OK
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Merge now errors when the key's type differs from the question, or when non-empty key content has no parseable entries. Save rejects a non-string markdown payload.
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Reject a missing question type before merging.
If the question file has no parseable __Type__ section, this fallback uses the answer-key type but does not add a type to the question. The load endpoint then returns success with a null questionType. The editor prompts for a type despite loading an existing answer key. Reject this inconsistent file pair instead of treating it as a valid merge. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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- Line 515: Update answer-key parsing around parsed.answers to reject entries
missing a separator while allowing entries with a separator and an empty value.
Validate separator presence rather than whether the parsed value is empty.
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- Around line 333-336: Update the markdown validation before file writes to
reject missing and null values by requiring data.markdown to be a string. Keep
an empty string valid so intentional empty saves still work, and preserve the
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Save now rejects a missing markdown string. Merge rejects a question with no type, and answer-key rows that lack a separator, while still allowing empty values after a colon.
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Major · Preserve Text Input annotations when an answer-key value is empty. · split-answer-key.js:228
lib/split-answer-key.js:228 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve Text Input annotations when an answer-key value is empty.
When the key contains - Question 1:, values contains ''. replaceListItems then replaces the question file’s - [kind: string] item with an empty item. Loading and saving that pair loses the validation metadata. Keep the question item’s annotations when the key value is empty. The new empty-value test should assert that [kind: string] survives the merge. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the merge logic around replaceListItems so an empty answer-key value does
not replace the question item or remove its annotations; preserve the existing
replacement behavior for non-empty values. Add an empty-value test that verifies
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An empty `- Question 1:` entry no longer replaces the question file's `[kind]`/`[options]` metadata on load.
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Functional changes
Edit mode can write the split assessment format (question file without answers, plus a companion answer-key file) when you pass
--answer-key.The editor form is the same. You still fill in answers there. On save they go into the answer-key file, and the question file keeps only the learner-facing content. On load the two files are merged so the answers show up in the form again.
--copy-markdownstill copies the combined form, with answers inline.Technical changes
--editnow accepts an optional--answer-key <file>. Load merges the pair into the combined markdown the editor already understands. Save splits that markdown back into a stripped question and an__Answer Key__file.The split/merge lives in
lib/split-answer-key.jsand walks markdown sections so we don't round-trip throughbuildActivityFromMarkdown(that parser shuffles options and items). Coverage matches the assessment examples: Text Input, MCQ (includingmulti-select), FIB, Matching, Matrix, Sort, and Swipe. Text Input keeps[kind]/[options]on the stripped question so the learner UI still knows the input shape.Testing
node server.js --edit /tmp/q.md --answer-key /tmp/q-answer-key.md/tmp/q.md: answers should be gone from__Correct Answers__, with[kind]/[options]still present if they were set./tmp/q-answer-key.md: it should have__Answer Key__with- Question 1: ....multi-selectunder__Question Options__and the key lists both labels.--answer-key, confirm edit mode still writes one combined file, as before.