[DISPATCH-2281] Dispatch confg refuses to load Windows paths with backslashes

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Tests
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jiri Daněk
• Created: 06/Nov/21 22:23
• Updated: 04/Jan/22 11:44

Description

15: 2021-11-06 21:03:49.699705 +0100 AGENT (error) Line 4 |"debugDumpFile": "C:\Users\Vitorio\CLionProjects\qpid-dispatch\cmake-build-debug-visual-studio-clang\tests\system_test.dir\system_tests_link_routes\Dispatch1428\setUpClass\A-qddebug.txt"}],
[...]
15: 2021-11-06 21:03:49.717249 +0100 ERROR (error) Python: Exception: Cannot load configuration file A.conf: Invalid \escape: line 4 column 21 (char 69

The config loading procedure first transforms the config with regexes and then reads it as JSON

15:   File "C:\Users\Vitorio\CLionProjects\qpid-dispatch\python\qpid_dispatch_internal\management\config.py", line 198, in _parse
15:     sections = json.loads(js_text)

The error seems to be the correct behavior. Windows paths will need to be escaped, or written with forward slashes (this works on contemporary Windows versions). The Dispatch tests will need to be fixed.