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uqbar
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9 years ago

line break character in JSON

We are trying to use add_folder_member with a custom_message that includes line breaks.

 

We tried passing them as \n , \r, \n\r , \u0010. They get all stripped out

 

What is the right syntax to use?

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4 Replies

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    9 years ago
    Thanks for the post! I don't believe we officially support any formatting like this for the message, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request.
  • uqbar's avatar
    uqbar
    New member | Level 2
    9 years ago
    Thanks for the quick reply Greg. Does it mean that for now there is no way to pass line breaks in the JSON body? That would be quite limiting considering that when you type a custom message manually there is no such restriction.
    Any workaround you can think of? Like a way of updating the default message for a folder so that we don't have to pass a custom message anymore?
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    9 years ago
    No, unfortunately I don't have a solution to offer for this.
  • uqbar's avatar
    uqbar
    New member | Level 2
    9 years ago
    ok thank for your help Greg. we'll adopt "write unformatted one-liners" as a temporary solution, hoping the support for line breaks will make into the features in the future

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