microsoft / microsoft/msstore-cli
`msstore submission get` outputs invalid JSON for non-Latin listings
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Description
msstore submission get produces invalid JSON when the app has listings with Cyrillic characters (e.g. sr-cyrl-rs).
The output contains:
- Bare backslashes not followed by valid JSON escape characters (e.g. in
Keywords) - Invalid Unicode escape sequences such as
\u 04(space between\uand the hex digits)
This causes ConvertFrom-Json to fail with:
Bad JSON escape sequence: \. Path 'Listings.sr-cyrl-rs.BaseListing.Keywords[3]'
Invalid Unicode escape sequence: \u 04. Path 'Listings.sr-cyrl-rs.BaseListing.Description'
Making it impossible to pipe submission get into submission updateMetadata as documented.
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Research direction
Start at the msstore submission get command and reproduce the issue with a listing containing Cyrillic characters such as sr-cyrl-rs. Verify that its output parses with PowerShell ConvertFrom-Json and can be piped into submission updateMetadata, including keywords and descriptions with backslashes and Unicode characters.
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- csharp
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- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
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