Support JCommander-style parameter files #551
Description
It is possible that this is a feature, but I did not find it in the documentation. See my Github repo for a complete reproducer.
Steps to reproduce
Create an argument file argFile such as this:
-f "C:\Users\me\somefile.txt"
Run Picocli like this:
CommandLine.run(..., "@argFile");
Observe that the value of the String-typed Option has been changed to C:UsersmesomeFile.txt.
Additional information
- When the value is not quoted, everything works fine. This suggests a problem with not escaping the Windows backslash character. However, the quotes are used in order not to have to escape whitespace characters and therefore this workaround creates a different problem - either I escape the backslashes or the whitespace.
- When the value is kept quoted but passed directly on the command line (as opposed to the argument file), the problem no longer shows up. Unfortunately, the code will include the quotes in the resulting value. There is a second test included to showcase that problem.