cider log multiline message problem

[biancashouse]

I'm using Windows and powershell to build ps1 scripts that build upon cider.
When I run this ps1 script:

$logMessage = 'make Cider great again
and line 2'

cider log fixed $logMessage

The CHANGELOG.md gets an entry that looks like this:

• make Cider great again & C:\Installs\flutter_windows_3.19.1-stable\flutter/bin/internal/exit_with_errorlevel.bat

Anything after line 1 is lost.

Just saying...
Would be nice to be able to add multiline.
Or am I barking up the wrong tree ?

[biancashouse]

My bad. No bug. This worked:

import 'package:cider/cider.dart';

dart'''
main() {
final cider = CiderCli();
cider.run(['log', 'fixed', "Tried to fix a bug\nbut it was'nt there\nThey're eating the dawgs!!"]);
}
'''

[biancashouse]

Final comment, and reopening so you might incorporate into next release...

I find that in powershell, if I remove newline chars and leave the line feed chars, the problem is resolved:

$stringWithoutLineBreaks = $ciderLogMsg.Replace("`n", "")
cider log "$ciderLogType" "$stringWithoutLineBreaks"

[f3ath]

Hi @biancashouse . I'm wondering if changing your initial command to cider log fixed "$logMessage" will work as expected. Note the quotes around the argument. My suspicion is that the issue is not in Cider, but rather in how the multiline argument is interpreted by the shell.

f3ath@fw:~/project/cider$ logMessage="make
cider
great
covfefe"
f3ath@fw:~/project/cider$ cider log add "$logMessage"
f3ath@fw:~/project/cider$ head CHANGELOG.md -n 15
# Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

## [Unreleased]
### Added
- make
cider
great
covfefe

## [0.2.8] - 2024-06-09
### Changed
f3ath@fw:~/project/cider$ 

[biancashouse]

Yes, the issue arises from how I obtain the message string. I use a powershell wysiwyg text dialog, and it captures both \n and \r characters. I fixed my issue by simply replacing \n with empty string before I pass it to cider (see above). Thanks for the feedback. Happy to close this issue.