[Bug] Using --input in a windows terminal

[svickers]

What are you really trying to do?

Trying to pass input values to start a workflow.

Describe the bug

When using a command from the docs like this:

temporal workflow start --task-queue greeting-tasks --type GreetSomeone --namespace default --input '"joe"'

Receiving the error:

Error: input is not valid JSON: invalid character 'j' looking for beginning of value

Workflow

from datetime import timedelta
from temporalio import workflow

@workflow.defn
class GreetSomeone:
    @workflow.run
    async def run(self, name: str) -> str:
        return f"{name}"

Environment/Versions

• OS and processor: Windows 11
• Temporal Version: 0.10.7 (server 1.22.2) (ui 2.21.3)

[cretz]

You have to use Windows quote escaping, e.g. --input """joe""". This is not related to Temporal, this is a general Windows approach on how to have quotes in parameters.

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