Parsing arguments passed to debug providers

[fabiospampinato]

• VSCode Version: 1.25.2
• OS Version: 10.13.5

We can pass custom arguments in our debug providers' configurations, e.g.:

args: [`--extensionDevelopmentPath=${rootPath}`]

For some reason the following isn't properly parsed:

args: [`--extensionDevelopmentPath="${rootPath}"`]
args: [`--extensionDevelopmentPath='${rootPath}'`]

Notice that I'm quoting the value of the extensionDevelopmentPath option.

Is this documented anywhere? Is this a bug?

[weinand]

What do you mean by "the following isn't properly parsed"?
What error are you seeing?

Instead of putting quotes around the rootPath to protect paths with spaces, you can let VS Code do the work:

args: [`--extensionDevelopmentPath`, `${rootPath}`]

VS Code will quote arguments that contain spaces.

[fabiospampinato]

What do you mean by "the following isn't properly parsed"?

I get this error, basically the quotation marks are preserved and a slash is added at the beginning:

args: [--extensionDevelopmentPath, ${rootPath}]
VS Code will quote arguments that contain spaces.

That's exactly what I need, thanks.

Does VS Code quote arguments that are written like this: --extensionDevelopmentPath=${rootPath} too?