Post link with newline in the description

toolleeo commented 5 years ago

How can post a link from the command line that has a description that should contain a newline when displayed in the shaarli online instance?

When trying something like (see the newlines in the description)

shaarli post-link --url 'http://test.url/' --title 'Test' --description 'One\nword\nper\nline.'

The shaarli script (v 0.3.0) returns

{
    "created": "2019-08-04T09:56:11+02:00",
    "description": "One\\nword\\nper\\nline.",
    "id": 2786,
    "private": false,
    "shorturl": "r-KS6g",
    "tags": [],
    "title": "Test",
    "updated": "",
    "url": "http://test.url/"
}

The newlines are escaped, and the text in the online shaarli instance contains the '\n' text verbatim instead of the actual newline.

Using '\r\n' instead of '\n' does not work either.

May this be a shaarli API issue?

nodiscc commented 5 years ago

After a few tests, you can use actual line breaks, or this syntax: --description $'One\nword\nper\nline.'

nodiscc commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/shaarli/python-shaarli-client/pull/66

shaarli / python-shaarli-client

Post link with newline in the description #43