Transforming directory pathh adds extra slashes "\\"

[sunilbindra]

I am suing Magic chunks. In my master json file I have one key with value

"ExternalFiles": {
"EncryptionKeyFile": "C:\TotalKeys\key.config.json"
}
In my transformation file transforming it to I have this

"ExternalFiles/EncryptionKeyFile": "C:\TotalKeys\keytest.config.json"

When it transform result is having some extra slashes, dont know why:-

"ExternalFiles": {

}

Any Idea why there are extra "\". it got 4 instead of 2.

Any one aware of any solution
Thanks

[sourcejon]

bump

[nils-a]

@sourcejon, @sunilbindra I wanted to have a look at this, but could not reproduce it.
Would one of you be in a position to provide a minimal example that reproduces the error?

[nils-a]

Found it. This happens, when using the DevOps Task and "correctly" escaping \ in json of the transformation.

I.e. when the task is defined like:

- task: MagicChunks@2
  inputs:
    sourcePath: 'test.json'
    fileType: 'Auto'
    targetPathType: 'source'
    transformationType: 'json'
    transformations: |
      {
        "ExternalFiles/EncryptionKeyFile": 
              "C:\\TotalKeys\\keytest.config.json"
      }

(notice the double \\ in the transformations) - the error occurs.

However, if the transformation-json is defined ("wrongly") as

- task: MagicChunks@2
  inputs:
    sourcePath: 'test.json'
    fileType: 'Auto'
    targetPathType: 'source'
    transformationType: 'json'
    transformations: |
      {
        "ExternalFiles/EncryptionKeyFile": 
              "C:\TotalKeys\keytest.config.json"
      }

(notice the single \ in the transformations) - the error does not occur.

This behavior is the same, regardless whether one is using the "Inline JSON" transformation type or the "JSON File" type.