@Override
  public ProblemAndTestCaseList importExercise(Course course, String exerciseHash)
      throws CloudCoderAuthenticationException {
    if (course == null || exerciseHash == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException();
    }

    // Make sure a user is authenticated
    User user =
        ServletUtil.checkClientIsAuthenticated(
            getThreadLocalRequest(), GetCoursesAndProblemsServiceImpl.class);

    // Find user's registration in the course: if user is not instructor,
    // import is not allowed
    CourseRegistrationList reg = Database.getInstance().findCourseRegistrations(user, course);
    if (!reg.isInstructor()) {
      throw new CloudCoderAuthenticationException(
          "Only an instructor can import a problem in a course");
    }

    // Attempt to load the problem from the exercise repository.
    ConfigurationSetting repoUrlSetting =
        Database.getInstance().getConfigurationSetting(ConfigurationSettingName.PUB_REPOSITORY_URL);
    if (repoUrlSetting == null) {
      logger.error("Repository URL configuration setting is not set");
      return null;
    }

    // GET the exercise from the repository
    HttpGet get = new HttpGet(repoUrlSetting.getValue() + "/exercisedata/" + exerciseHash);
    ProblemAndTestCaseList exercise = null;

    HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
    try {
      HttpResponse response = client.execute(get);

      HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

      ContentType contentType = ContentType.getOrDefault(entity);
      Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(entity.getContent(), contentType.getCharset());

      exercise = new ProblemAndTestCaseList();
      exercise.setTestCaseList(new TestCase[0]);
      JSONConversion.readProblemAndTestCaseData(
          exercise,
          ReflectionFactory.forClass(Problem.class),
          ReflectionFactory.forClass(TestCase.class),
          reader);

      // Set the course id
      exercise.getProblem().setCourseId(course.getId());
    } catch (IOException e) {
      logger.error("Error importing exercise from repository", e);
      return null;
    } finally {
      client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
    }

    // Set "when assigned" and "when due" to reasonable default values
    long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
    exercise.getProblem().setWhenAssigned(now);
    exercise.getProblem().setWhenDue(now + 48L * 60L * 60L * 1000L);

    // Set problem authorship as IMPORTED
    exercise.getProblem().setProblemAuthorship(ProblemAuthorship.IMPORTED);

    // For IMPORTED problems, parent_hash is actually the hash of the problem
    // itself.  If the problem is modified (and the authorship changed
    // to IMPORTED_AND_MODIFIED), then the (unchanged) parent_hash value
    // really does reflect the "parent" problem.
    exercise.getProblem().setParentHash(exerciseHash);

    // Store the exercise in the database
    exercise = Database.getInstance().storeProblemAndTestCaseList(exercise, course, user);

    return exercise;
  }
  @Override
  public ShareExercisesResult submitExercises(
      Problem[] problems, String repoUsername, String repoPassword)
      throws CloudCoderAuthenticationException {
    logger.warn("Sharing " + problems.length + " exercises");

    // create the result place holder
    ShareExercisesResult result = new ShareExercisesResult(problems.length);

    if (problems.length == 0) {
      result.failAll("No problems to be shared!");
      return result;
    }

    // Only a course instructor may share an exercise.
    User authenticatedUser =
        ServletUtil.checkClientIsAuthenticated(
            getThreadLocalRequest(), GetCoursesAndProblemsServiceImpl.class);
    Course course = new Course();
    course.setId(problems[0].getCourseId());
    Database.getInstance().reloadModelObject(course);
    CourseRegistrationList regList =
        Database.getInstance().findCourseRegistrations(authenticatedUser, course);
    if (!regList.isInstructor()) {
      result.failAll("You must be an instructor to share an exercise");
      return result;
    }

    // Get the exercise repository URL
    ConfigurationSetting repoUrlSetting =
        Database.getInstance().getConfigurationSetting(ConfigurationSettingName.PUB_REPOSITORY_URL);
    if (repoUrlSetting == null) {
      result.failAll("URL of exercise repository is not configured");
      return result;
    }
    String repoUrl = repoUrlSetting.getValue();
    if (repoUrl.endsWith("/")) {
      repoUrl = repoUrl.substring(0, repoUrl.length() - 1);
    }

    HttpPost post = new HttpPost(repoUrl + "/exercisedata");

    // Encode an Authorization header using the provided repository username and password.
    String authHeaderValue =
        "Basic "
            + DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(
                (repoUsername + ":" + repoPassword).getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
    // System.out.println("Authorization: " + authHeaderValue);
    post.addHeader("Authorization", authHeaderValue);

    // Now go through and upload each problem
    // For now, we do this one at a time
    // In the future we could send problems and test cases
    // to the repo in bulk, and add a new web service to handle it

    for (Problem p : problems) {
      // Look up the test cases
      List<TestCase> testCaseList = Database.getInstance().getTestCasesForProblem(p.getProblemId());
      ProblemAndTestCaseList exercise = new ProblemAndTestCaseList();
      exercise.setProblem(p);
      exercise.setTestCaseList(testCaseList);

      // Convert the exercise to a JSON string
      StringEntity entity;
      StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
      try {
        JSONConversion.writeProblemAndTestCaseData(exercise, sw);
        entity = new StringEntity(sw.toString(), ContentType.create("application/json", "UTF-8"));
      } catch (IOException e) {
        // fail remaining test cases and return our results thus far
        // some exercises may have been successfully shared
        result.failRemaining("Could not convert exercise to JSON: " + e.getMessage());
        return result;
      }
      post.setEntity(entity);

      // POST the exercise to the repository
      HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
      try {
        HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);

        StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();

        if (statusLine.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
          // Update the exercise's shared flag so we have a record that it was shared.
          exercise.getProblem().setShared(true);
          exercise.getProblem().setProblemAuthorship(ProblemAuthorship.IMPORTED);
          Database.getInstance().storeProblemAndTestCaseList(exercise, course, authenticatedUser);
          result.success();
        } else if (statusLine.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_UNAUTHORIZED) {
          result.failRemaining(
              "Authentication with repository failed - incorrect username/password?");
          return result;
        } else {
          result.failRemaining(
              "Failed to publish exercise to repository: " + statusLine.getReasonPhrase());
          return result;
        }
      } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
        result.failRemaining("Error sending exercise to repository: " + e.getMessage());
        return result;
      } catch (IOException e) {
        result.failRemaining("Error sending exercise to repository: " + e.getMessage());
        return result;
      } finally {
        client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
      }
    }
    result.allSucceeded(
        "Successfully uploaded " + problems.length + " exercise to repository.  Thanks!");
    return result;
  }