Qiskit Job Id Retrival Error for qiskit-QAOA with Ionq Azure Quantum Provider

[leonox]

Describe the bug
Dear Azure Quantum Devs&Users, I am currently using qiskit on ionq hardware via azure quantum providers (as part of a quantum inspired application). Using the std example I can directly run circuits but not a qaoa optimization (Error:"FAILURE: Can not get job id, Resubmit the qobj to get job id. Error: 'list' object has no attribute 'clbits' ") - could this be because Quantum Instance does not utilizie ionq_provider/backend yet or the azure provider is missing arguments and what could help to identify/resolve the issue?

To Reproduce
Code excerpts:
azure_provider = AzureQuantumProvider(subscription_id="subid", resource_group="rog", name="qc", location="West Europe", credential=credential) simulator_backend = azure_provider.get_backend('ionq.simulator') seed = 42 cobyla = COBYLA() cobyla.set_options(maxiter=250) quantum_instance = QuantumInstance(backend=simulator_backend, seed_simulator=seed, seed_transpiler=seed) qaoa_mes = QAOA(optimizer=cobyla, reps=3, quantum_instance=quantum_instance) qaoa = MinimumEigenOptimizer(qaoa_mes) result = qaoa.solve(qp) throws the error
with simulator_backend = Aer.get_backend('aer_simulator') it runs like a charm

azure_provider = AzureQuantumProvider(subscription_id="subid", resource_group="rog", name="qc", location="West Europe", credential=credential) simulator_backend = azure_provider.get_backend('ionq.simulator'); quantum_instance = QuantumInstance(backend=simulator_backend, seed_simulator=seed, seed_transpiler=seed) circuit = QuantumCircuit(3, 3) circuit.name = "Qiskit Sample - 3-qubit GHZ circuit" circuit.h(0) circuit.measure([0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2]) job = simulator_backend.run(circuit, shots=100) result = job.result() works

Expected behavior
return result without error

System information

• OS: Windows
• packages:
  azure-quantum 0.21.2112.180703 pypi_0 pypi
  qiskit 0.34.1 pypi_0 pypi
  qiskit-aer 0.10.2 pypi_0 pypi
  qiskit-ibmq-provider 0.18.3 pypi_0 pypi
  qiskit-ignis 0.7.0 pypi_0 pypi
  qiskit-ionq 0.1.4 pypi_0 pypi
  qiskit-optimization 0.3.0 pypi_0 pypi
  qiskit-terra 0.19.1 pypi_0 pypi

[cgranade]

Thanks for filing! I've transferred the issue to the repo where we track issues with Azure Quantum usage from Python metaprogramming frameworks so that we can triage and respond appropriately. Thank you!

[anpaz]

This seems like another instance of #224

[anpaz]

@leonox, we think we have identified the problem and should get fixed with #278.
In the meanwhile, we have published a beta package in case you want to try it yourself, you can pick it by installing version 0.23.201228b1, as in:

pip install azure-quantum[qiskit]==0.23.201228b1`

This is a pre-release version out of https://github.com/microsoft/qdk/tree/6814e494f754c619a1b17a05644d93e3064529ae. I was able to run your example using this version.
Let us know how it goes.

[leonox]

Great thank you - the ionq.qpu and ionq.simulator are now responding!