CSV, JSON and Java links seem to be broken

[bromagosa]

These aren't working anymore since (I think) today:

https://think.cs.vt.edu/corgis/csv
https://think.cs.vt.edu/corgis/json
https://think.cs.vt.edu/corgis/java

[acbart]

Actually, more like a week I think. We are doing a large refactoring of the CORGIS project this summer, and we're moving to the new infrastructure now since the semester is about to start. I've (mostly) restored the Python, BlockPy, and Visualizer datasets. The CSV and JSON are next on my CORGIS todo list. The Java datasets will be a little further behind because I don't have any direct demand on them, they'll be slightly trickier than the others, and it's the easiest to find another solution to (besides perhaps Python). However, I have to make a little more progress on our other upgrades relating to BlockPy, or several of our courses will very much be on fire. I'm hoping to have the CSV and JSON datasets back in action by sometime next week, but it might be a little longer.

The major advantage of the CORGIS related upgrades is that we're no longer hosting the datasets ourselves, but instead doing so directly through GitHub Pages. This will eventually also allow a nice CI situation where uploading new datasets/versions will automatically rebuild them without a command line being involved. But best of all, we're switching from a complex JSON format to CSVs for all the source datasets, which makes it much easier to make datasets and fix existing ones.

In the meantime, all the old datasets are still available via the old GitHub: https://github.com/RealTimeWeb/datasets/tree/master/datasets

[bromagosa]

Great, thank you for the thorough explanation. And for the alternative URL, too!

I just mentioned Java because I noticed the link was down too, but if these were to be gone for good you wouldn't see me complaining 😅

[acbart]

CSV files are now working again: https://think.cs.vt.edu/corgis/csv/

JSON files shouldn't take too long, so they'll be next when I get some free time. The Java ones probably won't take much time either, but the semester is definitely keeping me busy...

[bromagosa]

Thanks! CSV is all I needed :)

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[acbart]

More than two months later, and someone reminded me that JSON still wasn't working. Took less than an hour to get together, fortunately, but the JSON files are now working again: https://think.cs.vt.edu/corgis/json/

[jkhuggins]

Any word on getting the Java links working?

[acbart]

No updates for now, I'm afraid. I might not have time until the summer to fix those up, depending on how busy this semester starts being. I haven't had a whole lot of demand for the Java ones, since there you can usually access the data some other way. I'll point out that all the datasets are still available in the dist/ folders of the old repo: https://github.com/RealTimeWeb/datasets/tree/master/datasets/java

If someone's teaching a class and is relying on the web interface, it'd be helpful to let me know so I can redecide priority. But right now I have a lot to prep for the summer and SIGCSE, and I don't have the sense that this is causing a huge issue for many folks. Sorry for the delays!