\" (backSlash double quotes) is treating as a literal, when java process issues command to the the Linux TFS command line client

[hssom]

Hi,

In our java application, the java process is contructing command for linux TFS command line client, for a collection URL having space, by escaping double quotes around TFS collection URL as,

tf dir -login:username,Password! -collection:"http://appserver:8080/tfs/default collection" -recursive $/"test spaceNew"

The following is the error occured:

An argument error occurred: Option 'collection' requires a full URL as its value: no protocol: "http://appserver:8080/tfs/default
Team Explorer Everywhere Command Line Client (version 14.134.0.201804261732)

Note: The same command issued to windows TFS command line client works.

So, it is observed that " (backSlash double quotes) sequence is not escaping the double quotes, instead it is treating as a literal.

Please let me know, is there any solution for this.
Thank you.

[ForNeVeR]

Rules for escaping are different depending on how are you calling the client.

On Linux, all the corresponding APIs have the list-styled syntax, so you're actually supposed to do an equivalent of

execute("tf", "dir", "-login:username,Password!", "-collection:http://appserver:8080/tfs/default collection", "-recursive $/test spaceNew");

(note the quote placement!)

On Windows, where the corresponding APIs are string-based (i.e. are taking a single strings instead of a list of strings), there's a standard command-line parsing convention, which will do the same transformation for you (e.g. your -collection:"http://appserver:8080/tfs/default collection" will became "-collection:http://appserver:8080/tfs/default collection" according to it). That's why it works for you on Windows, but not on Linux.