Option with split property should not split quoted strings

[MarkusKramer]

I would like to pass a map of options into my application like:
-p AppOptions="-Dspring.profiles.active=foo,bar -Dspring.mail.host=smtp.mailtrap.io",OtherOptions=""

My class:

public class MyCommand implements Callable<Object> {
    @Option(names = {"-p", "--parameter"}, split = ",")
    @Getter
    Map<String, String> parameters;

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Object result = CommandLine.call(new MyCommand(), System.out, args);
        System.exit(result != null ? 0 : 1);
    }

    @Override
    public Object call() throws Exception {
        System.out.println(this.parameters.get("AppOptions"));
        return new Object();
    }
}

I expect it to output the entire value for AppOptions, instead I'm only getting -Dspring.profiles.active=foo

I believe the correct behavior should be that the split operation is not applied on quoted strings.

[remkop]

I was wondering if it would be possible to accomplish this with a more sophisticated split regular expression...

[remkop]

The following regex can be used to split on commas that are not inside a quoted region:

(,)(?=(?:[^"]|"[^"]*")*$)

Example:

String val = "\"-Dspring.profiles.active=foo,bar -Dspring.mail.host=smtp.mailtrap.io\",OtherOptions=\"\"";
String regex = "(,)(?=(?:[^\"]|\"[^\"]*\")*$)";
String[] parts = val.split(regex);

for (String p : parts) {
    System.out.println(p);
}

Prints

"-Dspring.profiles.active=foo,bar -Dspring.mail.host=smtp.mailtrap.io"
OtherOptions=""

The alternative is to simply gather the values and parse them seperately with a CSV parser in your program.

[remkop]

I closed this too soon.
I think I see a way to accomplish this now.

[remkop]

Fixed in master.
This will be in the upcoming 3.7 release.

[remkop]

@MarkusKramer please be aware that the next picocli release (3.9.1) will include a change in the quoting behaviour to satisfy this use case (#594) where map options can have quoted keys with embedded '=' characters.

Please let me know if you have any concerns or suggestions.