[GROOVY-7352] CliBuilder kills head/tail quotes from argument

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0
• Component/s: command line processing

Environment

$ groovy -v
Groovy Version: 2.4.0 JVM: 1.8.0_31 Vendor: Oracle Corporation OS: Linux

apostrophes works as expected:
$ groovy bug-paf-2.groovy -f "'test'"
'test'
$ groovy bug-paf-2.groovy -f "'test"
'test
$ groovy bug-paf-2.groovy -f "test'"
test'

(problem is only with quotes inside argument value)

I wanted to pass json filter expression -f ".Field == \"\""
and got last quote killed.

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alexander Petrossian (PAF)
• Created: 18/Mar/15 05:28
• Updated: 22/Jun/15 19:01

Description

$ cat bug-paf-2.groovy
def cli = new CliBuilder()
cli.with {
	f longOpt:'json-filter','jq expression', args: 1
}
def opt = cli.parse(args)
print "${opt.f}\n"
$ 

$ groovy bug-paf-2.groovy -f '"test"'  #expected "test", got:
test
$ groovy bug-paf-2.groovy -f '"test'  #expected "test, got:
test
$ groovy bug-paf-2.groovy -f 'test"' #expected test", got:
test

$ groovy bug-paf-2.groovy -f "\"test\""  #expected "test", got:
test
$ groovy bug-paf-2.groovy -f "\"test"  #expected "test, got:
test
$ groovy bug-paf-2.groovy -f "test\"" #expected test", got:
test

looks like somebody clears head/tail quotes.
this must not be done.

removing quotes/apostrophes is a task for shell, once data gets to argv, no unquoting must be done on it.

Issue Links

• requires: CLI-254 "test" gets parsed as test, quotes die :-(