sf.cli

The Strawberry Fields command line program sf provides several utilities including:

• sf configure [--token] [--local]: configure the connection to the cloud platform

• sf run INFILE [--output FILE]: submit and execute Blackbird scripts containing quantum programs from the command line

• sf --ping: verify your connection to the Xanadu cloud platform

Configure

Using the sf configure command to create a configuration file on Linux:

$ sf configure --token AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN
$ cat  ~/.config/strawberryfields/config.toml
[api]
authentication_token = "AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN"
hostname = "platform.strawberryfields.ai"
use_ssl = true
port = 443

Using the sf configure command to create a configuration file on Windows:

C:\> sf configure --token AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN
C:\> type C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Xanadu\strawberryfields\config.toml
[api]
authentication_token = "AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN"
hostname = "platform.strawberryfields.ai"
use_ssl = true
port = 443

In both the above examples, replace AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN above with your Xanadu cloud access token.

Flags:

• --token: the authentication token to use

• --local: causes the configuration file to be created locally in the current directory

If --local is not provided, the configuration file will be saved in the user’s configuration directory.

See also

Configuration options

Configuration wizard

For more advanced configuration options, the configuration wizard can be used.

Here we show how the interactive wizard can be used to configure each API option. Once done, we have a look at the newly created configuration file.

Example run in a Linux-based operating system:

$ sf configure
Please enter the authentication token to use when connecting: [] AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN
Please enter the hostname of the server to connect to: [platform.strawberryfields.ai] MYHOST
Should the client attempt to connect over SSL? [y] N
Please enter the port number to connect with: [443] 12345

$ cat  ~/.config/strawberryfields/config.toml
[api]
authentication_token = "AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN"
hostname = "MYHOST"
use_ssl = false
port = "12345"

The same example run on a Windows operating system:

C:\> sf configure
Please enter the authentication token to use when connecting: [] AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN
Please enter the hostname of the server to connect to: [platform.strawberryfields.ai] MYHOST
Should the client attempt to connect over SSL? [y] N
Please enter the port number to connect with: [443] 12345

C:\> type C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Xanadu\strawberryfields\config.toml
[api]
authentication_token = "AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN"
hostname = "MYHOST"
use_ssl = false
port = "12345"

Testing your connection

To test that your account credentials correctly authenticate against the cloud platform, the ping flag can be used:

$ sf --ping
You have successfully authenticated to the platform!

Submitting jobs

To execute a Blackbird .xbb file from the command line, the sf run command line program can be used:

$ sf run test.xbb --output out.txt

After executing the above command, the result will be stored in out.txt in the current working directory. You can also omit the --output parameter to print the result to the screen.

Code details

Warning

Unless you are a Strawberry Fields developer, you likely do not need to access the functions in this module directly.

A standalone command-line interface for configuring Strawberry Fields and connecting to the Xanadu cloud platform.

Functions

configuration_wizard()	Provides an interactive selection wizard on the command line to configure every option for the API connection.
configure(args)	An auxiliary function for configuring the API connection to the Xanadu cloud platform.
create_parser()	Creates a parser to process the commands and arguments passed to the command line interface.
main()	The Xanadu cloud platform command line interface.
run_blackbird_script(args)	Run a blackbird script.
write_script_results(samples[, output_file])	Write the results of the script either to a file or to the standard output.

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