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Enable having octal and hexadecimal escape characters in `toml` config
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Description
Support having octal and hexadecimal escape characters such as \x1b, \033 in toml configuration.
This could be done through adding a feature in the serde/toml crates.
ref. #2202
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing Vector's TOML configuration parsing and the serde/toml crates mentioned in the issue, then review the behavior described in ref. #2202. Done means TOML configuration accepts octal and hexadecimal escapes such as \x1b and \033 without breaking existing parsing.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100