THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND NOT READY FOR USE YET
The main working ideas can be found in termicoder/previous_alpha which provided the functionalities for module based implementation of termicoder
codechef plugin for termicoder using web api
The codechef plugin implementation supplied with main termicoder repo uses endpoint https://api.codechef.com/ for accessing resources.
This judge plugin on contrary uses https://www.codechef.com/api/ based urls as well as direct access to html and forms using beautiful soup to achive the required termicoder functionalies.
The purpose of creating this is that during a prior contest(LTIME64) , codechef disabled access to its oauth based api https://api.codechef.com which rendered termicoder useless during the contest. Codechef as of now cannot disable access to https://www.codechef.com/api endpoints as they are directly being used in their web interface www.codechef.com to get ajax requests and load problems and contests after regular intervals.
This is provided externally as we believe that overtime the codechef web interface will also shift to https://api.codechef.com and the endpoints should be more stable. On the other case If codechef shifts to some other paradigm and completely does away with frontend access to the api, we can still emulate complete html based browser functionality to keep this working.
In this instead of saving Oauth tokens, we save coookies after a user logs in. This currently does not support saving of password.
Another reason for using this is that the web api supports submissson but https://api.codechef.com doesn't (yet).