[Feature Request] Links to images

[willzeng]

Issue Description

When I upload a qasm circuit to the live instance on latticesurgery.com I want to share the results of the compilation. Since this is just local, I need to send the qasm and then ask someone else to upload an image as well. It would be nice to be able to share a link to the image that I upload.

Proposed Solution

There's at least two ways to do this.

• One is to have the app be totally client side and to process the qasm data in the url. An example of this is quirk.
• Another alternative is to store the uploaded qasm server side and to give each upload a unique URL.

[gwwatkin]

This seems like a desirable feature. Since compilation is an dispendious process, not worth running again just for sharing, it would be good to cache results and access them with a link.

This issue also plays with the greater plan of separating the request to initiate compilation with the actual compilation, which might take place on more resources than just a single lambda. We'd have to store the results in s3 or dynamodb.

[gwwatkin]

It's now possible to download and upload compilation results directly (without compiling) as of #137 and #138. This can constitute a form of sharing for the time being, though sharing via links is definitely still desirable.

[willzeng]

Awesome!

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[Keelando]

Apologies for the delay in implementing this feature. First, I can implement quick sharing by submitting the compilation output as a query string in the URL like you suggested @willzeng . This will work well for small lattices. The character limit of a URL seems to be 2048 characters so for large lattices I will need to implement server side rendering. It's possible that a string compression library can milk the URL method for all its worth. I will try some empirical tests on that :)