Quotes Not Supported For Secrets or Build-Args

[malkam03]

Behavior

When you provide a secret value with quotes, like a JSON. The action fails with:

> Run docker/build-push-action@v2
📣 Buildx version: 0.4.2
Error: Invalid Opening Quote: a quote is found inside a field at line 1

Escaping the quotes or using single quotes doesn't help either, tried:

{"host":"host","user":"user","pass":"pass"}
'{"host":"host","user":"user","pass":"pass"}'
{'host':'host','user':'user','pass':'pass'}
"{'host':'host','user':'user','pass':'pass'}"
{\"host\":\"host\",\"user\":\"user\",\"pass\":\"pass\"}
'{\"host\":\"host\",\"user\":\"user\",\"pass\":\"pass\"}'

Steps to reproduce this issue

1. Set a secret with quotes. E.g: SERVER with value {"host":"host","user":"user","pass":"pass"}
2. Use that secret for either the secret or build-args:

-
  	name: Build and Push image
        uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
        with:
          context: .
          push: true
          tags: ${{ env.IMAGE_NAME }}:latest
          file: ./Dockerfile
          build-args: |
            SERVER=${{ secrets.SERVER }}
          secrets: |
            SERVER=${{ secrets.SERVER }}

3. Run the workflow

Expected behaviour

Expected to set the secret value to either the build-args or secrets so it can be used at build.

Actual behaviour

The parsing of the values return Error: Invalid Opening Quote: a quote is found inside a field at line 1

Configuration

• Repository URL (if public): Not public, but you can use the info provided above to reproduce the error.
• Build URL (if public): Not public, but you can use the info provided above to reproduce the error.

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[crazy-max]

@malkam03 As explained in the README, quote signs need to be doubled for escaping.

[malkam03]

@malkam03 As explained in the README, quote signs need to be doubled for escaping.

Ah, sorry beginners error. Thank you for your prompt response!

[malkam03]

@crazy-max double escaping the quotes is not working either. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I think that this can be added more specifically to the documentation. If I can make it work and you accept MR's I can create one. I tried both using it with the secret or testing an explicit string:

SERVER=${{ secrets.SERVER }} # setting the value of SERVER secret to {\\"some\\":\\"value\\",\\"goes\\":\\"here\\"}
SERVER={\\"some\\":\\"value\\",\\"goes\\":\\"here\\"}

[crazy-max]

@malkam03 As I said, quote signs need to be doubled for escaping. So in your case:

SERVER={""some"":""value"",""goes"":""here""}

[malkam03]

Ah, is double quote not double escaped. Got it, thank you!

[malkam03]

Sorry, that's not working either @crazy-max, same error and same tests:

SERVER=${{ secrets.SERVER }} # setting the value of SERVER secret to {""some"":""value"",""goes"":""here""}
SERVER={""some"":""value"",""goes"":""here""}

[crazy-max]

@malkam03 Try with "SERVER=${{ secrets.SERVER }}"

[malkam03]

Yes, that works! Thank you very much! I created a PR if it works for someone else #246.