Azure-cli: webapp:Key=Value formats unclear

[rambotech]

Can you please add some clarification on the format of key=value on the command line. How would I add the following:

message=Hello World

or

items=one;two;three

connection-string allows use of apostrophes on the value portion, but this does not work in appsettings. I have tried the following and all fail with 400 Client error.

az webapp config appsettings set -g MyGroup -n servername --settings ...

message=Hello World
message='Hello World'
"message=Hello World"

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[yugangw-msft]

On windows use "name=value".
On nix, use 'name=value'

[danishprakash]

@yugangw-msft should this be added to the docs? I'm taking this up if nobody else is.

[nmeuret]

Can you also clarify the escape characters to use ? For example this doesn't work :

--settings "server-password=abcdexyz" -> Operation returned an invalid status code 'Bad Request'

Any idea ??

[yugangw-msft]

We have documented this, please see this, particularly the point 6, also the same command support to take json file through syntax of @<file>

[nmeuret]

We have documented this, please see this, particularly the point 6, also the same command support to take json file through syntax of @<file>

Unfortunatly, it's not answering my question. I do use quotes for the settings argument, but what doesn't work is the '-' character. Maybe there is more characters making trouble, and using quotes doesn't help at all.

[yugangw-msft]

can you please run with --debug and tell me about the payload on the wire?