Submit JSON using commandline?

[Kukulkan]

Hi,

I try to submit a JSON as comandline parameter.

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{ 
  "Foo": "Bar"
}

I tried this one-liner to test:

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MessageRequester("Test", ProgramParameter(0) + #CRLF$ + ProgramParameter(1))

I did not manage to find out in which way the quotes have to be escaped to work.
I tried \",""",^" and some others but with no success. Google is not helpful.

Any idea? How to submit double quotes in a commandline parameter?

Kukulkan

[Danilo]

Is using GetCommandLine_() on Windows an option for you?

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Debug PeekS(GetCommandLine_())

[Kukulkan]

Hi Danilo,

Thanks, but there are multiple parameters. So I have to do all the parsing by myself. I believe this is something that should be handled by the Operating System or at least by the development environment (PB). Or am I wrong? I have no problems with this on MacOS and Linux.

Is there a valid way for Windows to submit strings containing double quotes as commandline parameters?

Kukulkan

[Shield]

The correct way of escaping quotes under Windows is "hello ""pb"" world",
which will result in >>hello "pb" world<<. Unfortunately this doesn't work
with PB's parameter commands as it seems that PB is screwing this up.

I did a quick test with another language and it worked flawlessly.
Couldn't get it to work under PB. Maybe you can try a WinAPI approach
using GetCommandLine_() and CommandLineToArgvW().

[Little John]

If no other trick will work, maybe you can pass

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{
  'Foo': 'Bar'
}

on the command line, and then your program replaces ' with " ?
Just an idea.

[Edwin Knoppert]

afaik json does not contain crlf's

[Shield]

Well that's depending on the programmer, of course.
There is no such limitation.

[Edwin Knoppert]

He prepared a 'stringified' json and not an object view notation, both element as value have quotes.
Afaik in that case crlf is not part of json.

[Shield]

Of course you can use line breaks.
But maybe I'm just completely wrong...

[normeus]

once you start escaping and adding quotes after quotes then you are still hand processing each parameter.
I use a few simple rules: no double quotes unless there are spaces, the colon should be together with key and space
on both sides of comma.

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yourprogram.exe { position: relevant , json: "not for CMD" }

this will give index
(0) "{"
(1) "position:" notice how there is no space btw ":" and key
(2) "relevant"
(3) , comman
(4) "json:" again with the colon attached to key
(5) "not for CMD" here the quotes have served their purpuse of keeping spaces in place
(6) "}" end of the whole thing