able to get compress JSON characters stored as cookies

app.py

@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python3
-
+import zlib
 from main import *
-from flask import Flask, render_template, redirect, request
+from flask import Flask, render_template, redirect, request, make_response
+from flask_session import Session
 
 app = Flask(__name__)
 
+# Configure session
+app.config["SESSION_PERMANENT"] = False
+app.config["SESSION_TYPE"] = "filesystem"
+Session(app)
+
+
 @app.route('/')
 def index():
   return render_template("index.html")
@@ -13,10 +20,23 @@ def index():
 def party():
   if request.method == "GET":
     count = request.args.get("count", default=4, type=int)
-  adv_party = returnParty(count) 
-  return render_template("party_sheet.html", adv_party=adv_party, count=count)
+    level = request.args.get("level", default=1, type=int)
+  adv_party = returnParty(count, level) 
+  resp = make_response(render_template("party_sheet.html", adv_party=adv_party, count=count, level=level))
+  # make a cookie for each character
+  # this took a while to figure out, json alone was too large, b64 encoded json was too large, but it turns out you can compress json as a cookie
+  for character in adv_party.adventurers:
+    cookie_string = str(character.id)
+    char_json = json.dumps(character.get_json())
+    compressed = zlib.compress(char_json.encode())
+    cookie_data = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(compressed).decode()
+    resp.set_cookie(cookie_string, cookie_data)
+  return resp
+#  return render_template("party_sheet.html", adv_party=adv_party, count=count, level=level)
 
-@app.route('/character')
+@app.route('/character', methods = ["GET","POST"])
 def characters():
-  adv_party = returnParty(1) 
-  return render_template("party_sheet.html", adv_party=adv_party)
+  if request.method == "GET":
+    c_id = request.args.get("id", default=0, type=int)
+  character = returnCharacter(c_id) 
+  return render_template("character.html", character=character)