Sandbox: link shortening

[yangdanny97]

Describe the Bug

Encoding everything in base64 (especially using LZString) can lead to some pretty long URLs. Ty's sandbox uses a link shortener and Mypy's sandbox creates a public gist

Sandbox Link

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(Only applicable for extension issues) IDE Information

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[hashiranhar]

Can I work on this?

[yangdanny97]

Thanks, let's discuss the design before any implementation happens though.

Do you have any ideas on how we should do this?

[hashiranhar]

Thanks, let's discuss the design before any implementation happens though.

Do you have any ideas on how we should do this?

Github Gists makes a lot of sense, a gist supports multiple files so works for our sandbox. In terms of how the gists are created, it seems like mypy has a dummy playground account that logs in the gists on behalf of the users, I think this is the way to go. I've worked with the github api before this should be straight forward to setup hopefully!

Side Note: I tried to checkout fflate deflate and gzip methods on small files ( 800 chars ) it seems to shortern it by 50-100 chars, but its more efficient the larger the file gets. ( 9000 chars vs 19000 chars for a 900 line file from one of my projects). Still not ideal tho

[yangdanny97]

Thanks for investigating the other compression options.

I think if we do go with gists we should make the automatically created gists secret instead of public.

Let's see what the folks in the dev channel on discord say.