Clickable link + base64/url encoding support

[tobiasBora]

I'd like to visualize some data generated via minizinc. For this, I'd like to generate urls like https://urlofmyvisualizer.com/file=BASE64ENCODINGOFMYOUTPUT, where the url points to some tools that allow me to visualize the data (echart graphs, ICS viewers…). For now I have two issues:

1. the URL is super long, hence copy/pasting is not practical. I'd love minizinc playground to detect urls and allow the user to click them.
2. some visualizers I use expect either URL encoding or base64 formatting. URL encoding can more or less be written manually, but base64 is harder to write manually. Unfortunately, I can't find any way to loop on all elements of a string in minizinc, hence I can't write this base64 function.

I understand that point 2 should be reported in a different repository, but could we fix issue 1 here?

[cyderize]

Hi,

We can certainly have a look at adding URL recognition to the playground and a builtin for base64 encoding, but I'm wondering if it would be better to use builtin visualisation feature (which works in the IDE and in the playground) for this instead.

You could generate the hyperlinks that you want in a custom playground visualisation such as in this example, or you may even be able to embed your external visualisation tools into such a custom playground visualisation if they have JavaScript APIs (or maybe using iframes).

[tobiasBora]

Hi, Thanks a lot, that's actually a fairly good idea! It requires a bit more coding than a simple URL recognition (so I guess it makes sense to keep this issue open), but I like the idea and will use this in the meantime, thanks!