[SDS-1088] Qiskit 46 support (#167)

* qiskit 46 support

* github actions warnings solved

* github action repair

* deprecated workflows

Author: QFer

.github/workflows/github-ci.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+name: SDK build and test
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - dev
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - dev
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: true
+      max-parallel: 3
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: Install Dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install --upgrade .[qiskit,projectq,dev] coveralls
+
+      - name: Run Tests
+        run: |
+          echo "running unit tests"
+          coverage run --source="./src/quantuminspire" -m unittest discover -s src/tests -t src -v
+          echo "running mypy"
+          MYPYPATH=./src mypy --strict --ignore-missing-imports -p quantuminspire
+          echo "running pylint"
+          pylint quantuminspire || true
+          echo "running examples"
+          python ./docs/examples/example_projectq_entangle.py
+          python ./docs/examples/example_projectq_grover.py
+          python ./docs/examples/example_qiskit_conditional.py
+          python ./docs/examples/example_qiskit_entangle.py
+          echo "running notebooks"
+          jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute --ExecutePreprocessor.timeout=300 docs/examples/example_projectq.ipynb
+          jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute --ExecutePreprocessor.timeout=300 docs/examples/grover_algorithm_qi.ipynb
+          jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute --ExecutePreprocessor.timeout=300 docs/examples/qi-performance-test.ipynb
+        env:
+          API_URL: https://api.quantum-inspire.com
+          QI_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.QI_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/nightly.yaml

@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - name: Checkout Quantum Inspire SDK
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Clone Qiskit-terra
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         repository: qiskit/qiskit-terra
         path: qiskit-terra
     - name: Set up Python 3.8
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
         python-version: 3.8
     - name: pip install prerequisites

.travis.yml

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
       "Measured 0,0,0,0,0\n",
-      "Probabilities: {'10001': 0.525390625, '00000': 0.474609375}\n",
+      "Probabilities: {'10001': 0.4892578125, '00000': 0.5107421875}\n",
       "version 1.0\n",
       "# cQASM generated by Quantum Inspire <class 'quantuminspire.projectq.backend_qx.QIBackend'> class\n",
       "qubits 5\n",
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@
      "name": "stdout",
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
-      "Measured 1,0,0,0,1\n",
-      "Probabilities: {'10001': 0.501953125, '00000': 0.498046875}\n",
+      "Measured 0,0,0,0,0\n",
+      "Probabilities: {'00000': 0.505859375, '10001': 0.494140625}\n",
       "version 1.0\n",
       "# cQASM generated by Quantum Inspire <class 'quantuminspire.projectq.backend_qx.QIBackend'> class\n",
       "qubits 5\n",
@@ -219,9 +219,9 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.8.6"
+   "version": "3.12.2"
   }
  },
  "nbformat": 4,
- "nbformat_minor": 2
+ "nbformat_minor": 4
 }

docs/examples/example_projectq.ipynb

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 """
 import os
 
-from qiskit import BasicAer, execute
+from qiskit import transpile
+from qiskit.providers.basic_provider import BasicProvider
 from qiskit.circuit import QuantumRegister, ClassicalRegister, QuantumCircuit
 
 from quantuminspire.credentials import get_authentication
@@ -40,15 +41,18 @@
 qc.measure(q[1], c1)
 qc.measure(q[2], c2)
 
-qi_job = execute(qc, backend=qi_backend, shots=1024)
+qc = transpile(qc, backend=qi_backend)
+qi_job = qi_backend.run(qc, shots=1024)
 qi_result = qi_job.result()
 histogram = qi_result.get_counts(qc)
 print("\nResult from the remote Quantum Inspire backend:\n")
 print('State\tCounts')
 [print('{0}\t{1}'.format(state, counts)) for state, counts in histogram.items()]
 
 print("\nResult from the local Qiskit simulator backend:\n")
-backend = BasicAer.get_backend("qasm_simulator")
-job = execute(qc, backend=backend, shots=1024)
+backend = BasicProvider().get_backend(name="basic_simulator")   # qasm_simulator
+qc = transpile(qc, backend=backend)
+job = backend.run(qc, shots=1024)
+
 result = job.result()
 print(result.get_counts(qc))

docs/examples/example_qiskit_conditional.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 """
 import os
 
-from qiskit import execute
+from qiskit import transpile
 from qiskit.circuit import QuantumRegister, ClassicalRegister, QuantumCircuit
 
 from quantuminspire.credentials import get_authentication
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
 circuit.cx(q[0], q[1])
 circuit.measure(q, b)
 
-qi_job = execute(circuit, backend=qi_backend, shots=256)
+circuit = transpile(circuit, backend=qi_backend)
+qi_job = qi_backend.run(circuit, shots=256)
 qi_result = qi_job.result()
 histogram = qi_result.get_counts(circuit)
 print('\nState\tCounts')

docs/examples/example_qiskit_entangle.py

@@ -56,14 +56,15 @@ def get_long_description():
           'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
           'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
           'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12',
           'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License'],
       license='Apache 2.0',
       packages=['quantuminspire', 'quantuminspire.qiskit', 'quantuminspire.projectq'],
       install_requires=['coverage>=4.5.1', 'matplotlib>=2.1', 'pylatexenc', 'coreapi>=2.3.3', 'numpy>=1.20', 'jupyter',
-                        'nbimporter', 'qilib'],
+                        'nbimporter', 'qilib', 'setuptools'],
       extras_require={
-          'qiskit': ["qiskit>=0.40.0", 'qiskit-aer'],
-          'projectq': ["projectq>=0.4"],
-          'dev': ['pytest>=3.3.1', "pylint", "mypy>=0.670"],
-          'rtd': ['sphinx', 'sphinx_rtd_theme', 'nbsphinx', 'sphinx-automodapi', 'recommonmark'],
+          "qiskit": ["qiskit>=0.46,<1.0", "qiskit-aer"],
+          "projectq": ["projectq>=0.8.0"],
+          "dev": ["pytest>=3.3.1", "pylint", "mypy>=0.670"],
+          "rtd": ["sphinx", "sphinx_rtd_theme", "nbsphinx", "sphinx-automodapi", "recommonmark"],
       })

docs/examples/grover_algorithm_qi.ipynb

@@ -35,19 +35,20 @@
 class QIJob(Job):  # type: ignore
     """
     A Qiskit job that is executed on the Quantum Inspire platform. A QIJob is normally created by calling
-    ``execute`` (which triggers a `run` on the QuantumInspireBackend ``qi_backend``).
+    ``run`` on QuantumInspireBackend ``qi_backend``.
 
-    .. code::
+    .. code-block:: python
 
         qc = QuantumCircuit(5, 5)
         qc.h(0)
         qc.cx(0, range(1, 5))
         qc.measure_all()
 
-        job = execute(qc, qi_backend, shots=1024)
+        qc = transpile(qc, qi_backend)
+        job = qi_backend.run(qc, shots=1024)
         result = job.result()
 
-    The return value of ``execute`` is an instance of QIJob (Qiskit job) and is the equivalent to the Quantum
+    The return value of ``run`` is an instance of QIJob (Qiskit job) and is the equivalent to the Quantum
     Inspire project. It is a container to handle one or more (asynchronous) Qiskit circuits or experiments.
     A Qiskit circuit is equivalent to a Quantum Inspire job.
 
@@ -190,21 +191,21 @@ def add_job(self, job: QuantumInspireJob) -> None:
         """ Add a Quantum Inspire job to the list. The list contains the (Quantum Inspire) jobs created for the
         submitted experiments in this particular QIJob.
 
-        :param job: QuatumInspireJob (submitted) that has to be added to the list of jobs created for the experiments
+        :param job: QuantumInspireJob (submitted) that has to be added to the list of jobs created for the experiments
          in QIJob.
         """
         self.jobs.append(job)
 
     def queue_position(self, refresh: bool = False) -> Optional[int]:
         """
         Return the position for this Job in the Quantum Inspire queue (when in status QUEUED).
-        Currently we don't have this info available.
+        Currently, we don't have this info available.
 
         :param refresh: If ``True``, re-query the server to get the latest value.
-                Otherwise return the cached value, when available. Not used.
+                Otherwise, return the cached value, when available. Not used.
 
         :return:
-            The queue position of the job. Currently None (not available).
+            The queue position of the job. Currently, None (not available).
         """
         return None