CLI (env) options not correctly parsed

[jdvegmond]

Current behavior

When running the following command
npx cypress open --env cyuser=dummyUser,cypassword=dummyPassword
When I open the project settings I see the following: cyuser: 'dummyUser cypassword=dummyPassword', and is highlighted in yellow instead of pink/red. The property 'cypassword' does not exist.

Desired behavior

I would expect that when I open the Project Settings I would see two properties under 'env', one cyuser: 'dummyUser' and one cypassword: 'dummyPassword'.

Test code to reproduce

This is the failing test code:

npx cypress open --env cyuser=dummyUser,cypassword=dummyPassword

Cypress Version

12.16.0 (but found it in 12.14.0)

Node version

v16.18.1

Operating System

Windows 11

Debug Logs

No response

Other

No response

[mike-plummer]

@jdvegmond Sorry to hear you're having issues. I just tried you example on a Unix system using the latest version of Cypress but cannot reproduce - the environment variables are being parsed correctly. This makes me wonder if you've hit a unique behavior of the command prompt you're using, possibly caused by special processing of the comma or equal symbols. I assume you're using the built-in Windows Command Prompt? Have you tried enclosing the argument value in quotes like this?

npx cypress open --env "cyuser=dummyUser,cypassword=dummyPassword"

[jdvegmond]

I was actually using PowerShell (latest version, 7.3.5)
But using the quotes did help actually. Thanks for the suggestion.

Maybe https://docs.cypress.io/guides/guides/environment-variables#From-the-command-line-or-CI should get a remark that it might be useful to put the complete string in quotes?

[lmiller1990]

Great - sounds like you solved the issue - I'll close this since we don't have any work to do in this repo.

Always good to update docs, please review @jdvegmond cypress-io/cypress-documentation#5361