Merge pull request #60 from arnehaak/current

T1001: Bugfix: Handle backslashes in values with "show configuration commands"

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/utils/vyos-config-to-commands b/src/utils/vyos-config-to-commands
index 8b50f7c5d..7147bc5ff 100755
--- a/src/utils/vyos-config-to-commands
+++ b/src/utils/vyos-config-to-commands
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ else:
     except OSError as e:
         print("Could not read config file {0}: {1}".format(file_name, e), file=sys.stderr)
 
+# This script is usually called with the output of "cli-shell-api showCfg", which does not
+# escape backslashes. "ConfigTree()" expects escaped backslashes when parsing a config
+# string (and also prints them itself). Therefore this script would fail.
+# Manually escape backslashes here to handle backslashes in any configuration strings
+# properly. The alternative would be to modify the output of "cli-shell-api showCfg",
+# but that may be break other things who rely on that specific output.
+config_string = config_string.replace("\\", "\\\\")
+
 try:
     config = ConfigTree(config_string)
     commands = config.to_commands()