Runestone Issue: Text Parsons problems not working when you create them from the Assignment Builder

[barbarer]

The text-based Parsons problems are not working when you create them using the new Assignment Builder.

I was in csawesome2 and assignment M1-U1-S2-Practice and creating a text-based Parsons problem: m1-u1-s2-algorithm-order-pp

It doesn't preview correctly or run correctly.

[barbarer]

The language was set to Text Content

[bnmnetp]

Were there errors in the JS console?

[bnmnetp]

I just tried this myself and had no problems.

[barbarer]

[barbarer]

How did you do it? I created a new block for each text block.

[bnmnetp]

Hmm, that error message is one that pops up randomly from time to time that has nothing to do with Parsons problems. It is an error with the webpack loader where it is not finding the right piece of packed javascript to load.

[barbarer]

Is any of this helpful?

[barbarer]

Or this - I scrolled up to the top.

[barbarer]

I just tried to create the same problem in my typical ebook for my course which is based on py4e-int and it worked. It didn't work when I tried it in csawesome2-MOOC which is based on csawesome2.

[barbarer]

[bnmnetp]

Yeah, this is a really slippery one. All of the books built on the same date will use the exact same javascript. But this error pops up and then seemingly disappears on its own at infrequent but random times.

[barbarer]

It seems to be working now in both books.

[bnmnetp]

I cleaned out a bunch of old files from the _static folder in csawesome2 and rebuilt/redeployed the book.

My current theory is that webpack is trying to load an old file that is a mismatch for the current build. By doing clean builds we should avoid this problem.

Otherwise this is just another example of this weird behavior of loading chunks randomly failing.