webapp: Quit using the pipe character '|' inside runtime types - makes CLI difficult

[freemansoft]

Describe the bug
Can't find any way to run the --runtimes on windows in bash shell.
Quit using the "|" character in values for --runtime for the CLI. It causes problems in all shells.
Use "-" or "_" or some non special character.

To Reproduce
Install Azure CLI on windows
Install any bash shell like Git Bash
Alias az=az.cmd
Try and run something like "az webapp create .... -runtime "JAVA|8-jre8"
Try and run something like "az webapp create .... -runtime "JAVA|8-jre8"

Expected behavior
Standard Bash escaping should work but it doesn't

Environment summary
Install Azure CLI on windows 10 using the installer

Additional context
Our build servers run on linux. Most of our developers have Windows laptops. We run Git BAsh shells in Visual Code and in shell windows

Pretty much everything in the CLI works fine except for these dang runtime names with embedded pipe characters.

Runtimes should be specified with ARNs. Something like

• runtime:linux/JAVA/8-jre8

[ghost]

Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @AzureAppServiceCLI, @antcp.

[yonzhan]

webapp

[freemansoft]

The second example that fails actually has a backslash prior to the pipe. You can only see it if you edit the post. The backslash is eaten by the formatter.

[panchagnula]

Thanks for reporting - the use of pipe | comes from the API that sets the values as language|runtime-version. Please make sure to use bash or terminal instead of Powershell - to ensure pipe doesn't mess with the usage. Closing this as by design for now.

[freemansoft]

The "|" is a bad character to put in the API. Are you saying this change would have to happen in a different project?

[panchagnula]

@freemansoft yes our API team is working on re-writing the API & this is the feedback I already shared with them. If API doesn't make that change - we plan to obscure this info from CLI command & handle it on the client before passing it to the API, but that will take time unfortunately.

[piouson]

Just stumbled on this issue with Git Bash and wondering if anyone found a way to escape '|' or a cli alternative..
Asked on Stackoverflow

[freemansoft]

Moving to Linux on Windows with WSL2 has become my go-to fix for this type of thing.

[piouson]

@freemansoft lucky man, some of us hands tied.. #6016 #4285 #5336

Git Bash - fail
PowerShell - fail
Command Prompt - works 😖

[panchagnula]

@freemansoft lucky man, some of us hands tied.. #6016 #4285 #5336

Git Bash - fail
PowerShell - fail
Command Prompt - works 😖

Sorry folks - we plan to make this change on the client side since the API continues to use this format in the versioning. In the meantime please check out this link to see if it helps https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/use-cli-effectively?view=azure-cli-latest#quoting-issues