Parsing of the build.log fails when a command has \"\

[sylvestre]

For example, the program that I am trying to build has this define:
-DDEFAULT_ICU_PLUGINS="/usr/local/lib/icu"\

Codechecker will fail this:
[ERROR] - The compile database is not valid.
[ERROR] - Invalid \escape: line 29848 column 786 (char 10574627)

[sylvestre]

@igalex Doesn't seem fix to me.
With this line:

        "command": "gcc -I/usr/include/c++/5 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/c++/5 -I/usr/include/c++/5/backward -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/include -E -MM -DU_ATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED= -DU_COMMON_IMPLEMENTATION -DU_USING_ICU_NAMESPACE=0 -DU_NO_DEFAULT_INCLUDE_UTF_HEADERS=1 -DUCONFIG_NO_LEGACY_CONVERSION -DUCONFIG_NO_TRANSLITERATION -DUCONFIG_NO_REGULAR_EXPRESSIONS -DUCONFIG_NO_BREAK_ITERATION -DU_CHARSET_IS_UTF8 -I/home/sylvestre/dev/mozilla/ff/mozilla-inbound/intl/icu/source/common -I/home/sylvestre/dev/mozilla/ff/mozilla-inbound/intl/icu/source/i18n -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -D_REENTRANT -DU_HAVE_ELF_H=1 -DU_HAVE_ATOMIC=1 -I/home/sylvestre/dev/mozilla/ff/mozilla-inbound/intl/icu/source/common -DDEFAULT_ICU_PLUGINS=\"/usr/local/lib/icu\"\  /home/sylvestre/dev/mozilla/ff/mozilla-inbound/intl/icu/source/common/icudataver.c",

codechecker is failing with:

  File "/home/sylvestre/dev/mozilla/codechecker/codechecker_package/CodeChecker/cc_lib/python2.7/codechecker_lib/log_parser.py", line 78, in parse_log
    actions = parse_compile_commands_json(logfile)
  File "/home/sylvestre/dev/mozilla/codechecker/codechecker_package/CodeChecker/cc_lib/python2.7/codechecker_lib/log_parser.py", line 26, in parse_compile_commands_json
    data = json.load(logfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 290, in load
    **kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Invalid \escape: line 3202 column 782 (char 466173)

[ERROR] - Invalid \escape: line 3202 column 782 (char 466173)
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[joaobortotcadore]

I have the same problem when I load the compile_commands.json generated by espressif/idf:v4.4.1. And I suspect it's because of those escape backslashes (\)

ESP-IDF adds these \\\:
-DMBEDTLS_CONFIG_FILE=\\\"mbedtls/esp_config.h\\\"

Expanded section:
"command": "/opt/esp/tools/xtensa-esp32-elf/esp-2021r2-patch3-8.4.0/xtensa-esp32-elf/bin/xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMBEDTLS_CONFIG_FILE=\\\"mbedtls/esp_config.h\\\" -DUNITY_INCLUDE_CONFIG_H -DWITH_POSIX -I/opt/esp/idf/comp>

I haven't tried it yet, but if single quotes solve the problem, with SED you could replace the \\\ by '