Cannot escape double quotes in extern strings

[jiribenes]

Minimal example:

extern pure def foo(): String = "\"this is a string\""

throws an error as \" is not allowed in extern strings:

However, double quote escaping works in normal strings:

val foo = "\"this is my quoted string\"

I believe that my actual use case needs the double quotes in an extern string because it's a separate parameter that I have to provide:

extern type ByteArray
extern pure def fromString(s: String): ByteArray = "(new TextEncoder().encode(s))"
extern pure def toString(b: ByteArray): String = "(new TextDecoder(\"utf-8\").decode(b))"

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Related: #350, #202

[b-studios]

If this is for the JS backend you can use "(new TextDecoder('utf-8').decode(b))" as a workaround for now.

[jiribenes]

Another workaround is to use multiline strings:

extern pure def toString(b: Bytes): String = """
    (new TextDecoder("utf-8").decode(b))
"""