Quiz API missing functionality for setting HTML answers

[maguire]

The current quiz API seems to be missing functionality to insert HTML answers, as one can only set an answer_text and not an answer_html.  This is despite the fact that the actual answers support an html element, as can be seen below:

"answers": [ { "id": 3603, "text": "answer1", "html": "", "comments": "", "comments_html": "", "weight": 0 }, { "id": 3070, "text": "answer2", "html": "", "comments": "", "comments_html": "", "weight": 100 }, ... ]

It is possible via the RCE GUI to cut the text and then switch to HTML mode and past it in. As shown in the example below:

[{'text': '', 'id': 2400, 'html': '<pre>sum(5,10)</pre>', 'weight': 0.0, 'comments_html': '', 'comments': ''}, {'text': '', 'id': 7243, 'html': '<pre>from math import *<br>sum(5,10,0)</pre>', 'weight': 0.0, 'comments_html': '', 'comments': ''}, {'text': '', 'id': 7766, 'html': '<pre>from math import<br>sum(5,10)</pre>', 'weight': 0.0, 'comments_html': '', 'comments': ''}, {'text': '', 'id': 5120, 'html': '<pre>from math import *<br>sum(5,10)</pre>', 'weight': 100.0, 'comments_html': '', 'comments': ''}]

I think that it should always be possible to set values via the API as opposed to having to use the GUI.  While it might take only a few minutes to do this for a single question, when there are large numbers of questions - this is when it should be possible to apply power tools.

[I am aware that there will be a new quiz engine, but as I do not have it - I have to work with what I have.]