Azure-pipelines-tasks: Parsing error when overriding test run parameters in Multi-agent release

[syltaxue]

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Issue Description

I got an error when configuring the agent in multi-agent mode on VSTS.
I am overwriting my test arguments with values coming from keyVault.
The same task and setup works when the agent is configured with parallel being "none".
When I want to run my tests in parallel by switching the "Parallelism" to "Multi-agent", I starts to see the error below from all agents.

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Error logs

2019-03-27T05:04:14.4883649Z ##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.logissue type=warning;]Unable to parse the override run parameters string: -Key1 value1PlainText -Key2 value2PlainText -kEY3 * -Key4DbConnectionString -key5 **
2019-03-27T05:04:14.6537738Z ##[error]SettingsUpdation.Run : Exception occurred during the updation of run settings: System.FormatException: Error encountered while overriding test run parameters. Please check the test run parameteres provided.
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[syltaxue]

Turns out to be an issue parsing db connection string.
If I have "Data Source=" in the db connection string variable, and pass it as a overwritten variable, it will have this problem. It skips all the values after the space, and only "data" is overwritten to the variable value.

The workaround I had was moving "Data Source=" to the code, and only pass the part that does not have a space in the release variable.

[ferrydeboer]

For me that workaround of moving the "Data Source=" is not really acceptable since that connection string is also written in the web.config. For me adding quotes around the connection string parameter value has done the trick.

[BVisagie]

For me that workaround of moving the "Data Source=" is not really acceptable since that connection string is also written in the web.config. For me adding quotes around the connection string parameter value has done the trick.

Thanks you @ferrydeboer this has assisted me. I was having trouble with a binary location, example: c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Beta\Application\msedge.exe within Azure DevOps and adding the quotes seems to have sorted it for me: