Appconfiguration: Long string with spaces is wrapped after 80 characters with az appconfig kv export --format yaml

Created on 20 Mar 2021  路  2Comments  路  Source: Azure/AppConfiguration

If you have a long string with spaces as a configuration value running az appconfig kv export with --format yaml will wrap the output after 80 characters.

For the string "a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a"
this is the output:

YAML:

Some__UsefulConfigKeyName=a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
  a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
  a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
  a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
  a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
  a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
  a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
  ```

Json:

"UsefulConfigKeyName": "a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a"
```

Obviously I'm not just saving strings of a, but it demonstrates it well.

Everything that isn't on the same line as the key name is ignored when the yaml is used.

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Hi @chreden, thanks for reporting this. The YAML parser that we use limits the line length to 80 characters by default for readability. I will update this limit so that you can export long strings without line wrapping.

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Hi @chreden, thanks for reporting this. The YAML parser that we use limits the line length to 80 characters by default for readability. I will update this limit so that you can export long strings without line wrapping.

Fixed in Azure CLI 2.22.0.

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