Introduction

This is a skeleton project structure which will help you start solving the problem right away.

Tools available to you.

• Java 17
• Apache Ant - A build tool to simplify the build process.

Structure

• src/main/java is where all your java source files should be written to. Already has a Main.java file that contains the driver code.
• lib contains the jar files for the IDE to provide code suggestion capabilities on external dependecies. Like JUnit5.
• build.xml is a build config file. You don't need to worry about this or edit this.

How to build your solution

• Ant task have already been configured for you.
• Run ant dist to generate the dist.jar file. This can be found inside dist/lib/ folder.

Checking for correctness

• You can click on the Get Code Feedback button from the interview application, which will run your solution against some preconfigured inputs and show you the output.
• If you want to build & run the dist.jar file from the terminal to check against custom inputs see Running the dist.jar file section.

Running the dist.jar file

• After building your solution as per How to build your solution you can now run the dist.jar against inputs.

• To run, issue the command java -jar dist/lib/dist.jar '<input 1>' where

  • input is a valid input given in the problem statement.

  For example: java -jar dist/lib/dist.jar '[7,1,5,3,6,4]'
  

  Note: Each full command should be wrapped in single quotes.

Ant tasks available to you.

You can run these following commands on the terminal.

• ant clean - will clean the older builds.
• ant dist - will compile your code and build the dist.jar file inside dist/lib folder.

Scripts available to you.

• run.sh '<input 1>' '<input 2>' - compiles and runs the code against the given inputs. Example: run.sh '[7,1,5,3,6,4]'.