htaccess.json file whitespace issues

[ronaldtse]

A normal htaccess file looks like this:

user1:ajdkahsdakdjshakd
user2:akjshdkasjdhadkjsh

In the htaccess.json read by the Lambda function, it needs to look like this:

{
  "htpasswd": "foobar:$2y$05$1h9cwwFusLcZCIUpdM7Gke.ei1E2QV6ORH/ZmvbR4h2tDGHb7q8lW\nzeebaa:$2y$05$aWBOi47GEOOoNB/ZUgdPY.NukDalyc.Bvn.S0aOlKDD9wp0R9mQHm",
...
}

But in the JSON, this will fail:

{
  "htpasswd": "foobar:$2y$05$1h9cwwFusLcZCIUpdM7Gke.ei1E2QV6ORH/ZmvbR4h2tDGHb7q8lW
zeebaa:$2y$05$aWBOi47GEOOoNB/ZUgdPY.NukDalyc.Bvn.S0aOlKDD9wp0R9mQHm",
...
}

Originally I wanted to do this:

{
  "htpasswd": "${file("htaccess")}",
...
}

But this problem prevents a direct substitution of the htaccess text and the JSON. The workaround is:

{
  "htpasswd": "${replace(file("htaccess"),"\n","\\n")}",
...
}

Can we make the function less whitespace-fussy by allowing linebreaks in addition to \n?