Merge pull request #3954 from Snarling/contractFix

CONTRACTS: FIX #3755 change input handling for contract attempts

src/NetscriptFunctions/CodingContract.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+import { WorkerScript } from "../Netscript/WorkerScript";
+import { IPlayer } from "../PersonObjects/IPlayer";
 import { Player as player } from "../Player";
-import { is2DArray } from "../utils/helpers/is2DArray";
+import { is2DArray } from "../utils/helpers/is2DArray
 import { CodingContract } from "../CodingContracts";
 import { CodingAttemptOptions, CodingContract as ICodingContract } from "../ScriptEditor/NetscriptDefinitions";
 import { InternalAPI, NetscriptContext } from "../Netscript/APIWrapper";
@@ -34,20 +36,11 @@ export function NetscriptCodingContract(): InternalAPI<ICodingContract> {
         const hostname = helpers.string(ctx, "hostname", _hostname);
         const contract = getCodingContract(ctx, "attempt", hostname, filename);
 
-        // Convert answer to string. If the answer is a 2D array, then we have to
-        // manually add brackets for the inner arrays
-        let answerStr = "";
-        if (is2DArray(answer)) {
-          const answerComponents = [];
-          for (let i = 0; i < answer.length; ++i) {
-            answerComponents.push(["[", String(answer[i]), "]"].join(""));
-          }
-
-          answerStr = answerComponents.join(",");
-        } else {
-          answerStr = String(answer);
-        }
+        if (typeof answer !== "number" && typeof answer !== "string" && !Array.isArray(answer))
+          throw new Error("The answer provided was not a number, string, or array");
 
+        // Convert answer to string.
+        const answerStr = JSON.stringify(answer);
         const creward = contract.reward;
         if (creward === null) throw new Error("Somehow solved a contract that didn't have a reward");
 

src/ScriptEditor/NetscriptDefinitions.d.ts

@@ -3222,7 +3222,12 @@ export interface CodingContract {
    * @param opts - Optional parameters for configuring function behavior.
    * @returns True if the solution was correct, false otherwise. If the returnReward option is configured, then the function will instead return a string. If the contract is successfully solved, the string will contain a description of the contract’s reward. Otherwise, it will be an empty string.
    */
-  attempt(answer: string[] | number, filename: string, host?: string, opts?: CodingAttemptOptions): boolean | string;
+  attempt(
+    answer: string | number | any[],
+    filename: string,
+    host?: string,
+    opts?: CodingAttemptOptions,
+  ): boolean | string;
 
   /**
    * Get the type of a coding contract.

src/data/codingcontracttypes.ts

@@ -1422,9 +1422,13 @@ export const codingContractTypesMetadata: ICodingContractTypeMetadata[] = [
     },
     solver: (_data: unknown, ans: string): boolean => {
       const data = _data as [number, [number, number][]];
+
+      //Sanitize player input
+      const sanitizedPlayerAns: string = removeBracketsFromArrayString(ans);
+
       //Case where the player believes there is no solution.
       //Attempt to construct one to check if this is correct.
-      if (ans == "[]") {
+      if (sanitizedPlayerAns === "") {
         //Helper function to get neighbourhood of a vertex
         function neighbourhood(vertex: number): number[] {
           const adjLeft = data[1].filter(([a]) => a == vertex).map(([, b]) => b);
@@ -1473,12 +1477,9 @@ export const codingContractTypesMetadata: ICodingContractTypeMetadata[] = [
         return false;
       }
 
-      //Sanitize player input
-      const sanitizedPlayerAns: string = removeBracketsFromArrayString(ans);
+      //Solution provided case
       const sanitizedPlayerAnsArr: string[] = sanitizedPlayerAns.split(",");
       const coloring: number[] = sanitizedPlayerAnsArr.map((val) => parseInt(val));
-
-      //Solution provided case
       if (coloring.length == data[0]) {
         const edges = data[1];
         const validColors = [0, 1];

src/utils/helpers/is2DArray.ts

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-export function isArray(arr: unknown): arr is unknown[] {
-  return Array.isArray(arr);
-}
-
-// Checks whether an array is a 2D array.
-// For this, a 2D array is an array which contains only other arrays.
-// If one element in the array is a number or string, it is NOT a 2D array
-export function is2DArray(arr: unknown): arr is unknown[][] {
-  return isArray(arr) && arr.every((u) => isArray(u));
-}