Journal.ByWorkspacePath can't handle whitespace in file paths

[andydandy74]

@ikeough - found the first bug by pure luck. I rearranged the folder structure of the test files and renamed some of the subfolders. Some of the folder names now contained whitespaces. The path in the resulting journal file will look like this:

C:\temp\DynamoAutomation\slave/graphs\Revit2016\CountWalls.dyn

So it turned slave graphs into slave/graphs. Revit will not be able to find a Revit model with such a path nor will the Dynamo addin find a graph with such a path.

[andydandy74]

Also - I wonder if this may happen with other special characters as well?

[ikeough]

@andydandy74 We should re-open this. It's replacing spaces with / because I made it do that when debugging why it didn't work for some paths. We should set it back, I just haven't had time.

[andydandy74]

Okay @ikeough - I reverted it. Can you remember a specific case where leaving the original whitespace didn't work?

[andydandy74]

Seems that this is just a standard limitation of Revit journal playback.

[andydandy74]

Let's have a look at this again... https://twitter.com/PragmaticPrxs/status/963420422741069824

[andydandy74]

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/d345fb15-7676-438d-9530-bfc9de640f59/how-do-i-pass-whitespace-to-a-process-command-line?forum=csharpgeneral

[steinah6]

What's the current status of this? I'd love to use your tools but renaming all of our office directories is not an option right now.