Missing escaping special characters in description.

[przemkalit]

Summary

Recently, I tried to restore job templates in our environment, but an error is showing up due to some special characters in the description.

I've managed to fix it manually in the files in two ways:

original yaml fragment:

...
    description: "XXX report \\10.10.10.128\something$\whatever\yyy\zzz"
...

The first solution:

...
    description: "XXX report \\10.10.10.128\\something\\$\\whatever\\yyy\\zzz"
...

The second solution:

...
    description: 'XXX report \\10.10.10.128\something$\whatever\yyy\zzz'
...

But maybe you would have better solution for this.

Issue Type

• Bug Report

Ansible, Collection, Controller details

Devel affected.

OS / ENVIRONMENT

N/A

Desired Behavior

Export objects with proper escaped special characters

Actual Behavior

I've ran an import script and include_vars module failed with this error:

"We were unable to read either as JSON nor YAML, these are the errors we got from each:
JSON: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Syntax Error while loading YAML.
 found unknown escape character
The error appears to be in '/repo_dir/controller_objects/control_vars/controller_job_templates/job_scheduled.yaml':
 line 4, column 70, but maybe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
 name: \"job_scheduled\"
 description: \"XXX \\\\10.10.10.128\\something$\\whatever\\yyy\\zzz\"\n          
}

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Create job template with description: XXX report \\10.10.10.128\something$\whatever\yyy\zzz.
2. Export Job templates with filetree_create.
3. Try to Include_vars with exported files.

Edit: double quotes present in description can break things as well.

[przemkalit]

Bug related to the include_vars module, I am closing this issue.