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Line breaks in meta values break wp post meta list #262
Description
Given a post meta field with a value that contains line breaks, the output of wp post meta list breaks. Example:
$ wp post meta list 123
+---------+----------+------------+
| post_id | meta_key | meta_value |
+---------+----------+------------+
| 123 | foo | foo |
| 123 | bar | bar
bar
bar
bar
bar
bar |
| 123 | baz | baz |
+---------+----------+------------+
Should this output be improved? A potential improvement would be:
+---------+----------+------------+
| post_id | meta_key | meta_value |
+---------+----------+------------+
| 123 | foo | foo |
| 123 | bar | bar |
| | | bar |
| | | bar |
| | | bar |
| | | bar |
| 123 | baz | baz |
+---------+----------+------------+
This might be difficult to implement though.
Note: The wp post get command doesn't suffer from this problem, which means line breaks in the post_content field don't break the output.
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tfirdaus commentedon Apr 9, 2024
@schlessera I was able to replicate this issue:
But looks like we're facing a similar issue with the
post listcommand as well.The output changes depending on the window size though, and it seems like the line break is simply replaced with a blank space? 🤔
Handling the line break might be difficult, as @johnbillion mentioned. However, we could probably consider making a compromise by replacing the line break with a blank space in the
tableformat. I haven't checked the JSON and YML formats, but I believe retaining the line break in those two formats would be much simpler.What's your thought?
BhargavBhandari90 commentedon Mar 1, 2025
Hi I tried to fix this issue, but for that I had to modify https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/blob/main/php/WP_CLI/Formatter.php from code wp-cli file.
Not sure if this is the right approach or not. But result is expected.
Before:
After I modified
Formatter.phpPR I've created wp-cli/wp-cli#6055
Properly handle line breaks in column value
Properly handle line breaks in column value (#179)