[Console] Update indentation behaviour

src/legacy/core_plugins/console/public/src/utils.js

@@ -66,12 +66,32 @@ utils.collapseLiteralStrings = function (data) {
   return splitData.join('');
 };
 
+/*
+  The following regex describes global match on:
+  1. one colon followed by any number of space characters
+  2. one double quote (not escaped, special case for JSON in JSON).
+  3. greedily match any non double quote and non newline char OR any escaped double quote char (non-capturing).
+  4. handle a special case where an escaped slash may be the last character
+  5. one double quote
+
+  For instance: `: "some characters \" here"`
+  Will match and be expanded to: `"""some characters " here"""`
+
+ */
+
+const LITERAL_STRING_CANDIDATES = /((:[\s\r\n]*)([^\\])"(\\"|[^"\n])*\\?")/g;
+
 utils.expandLiteralStrings = function (data) {
-  return data.replace(/("(?:\\"|[^"])*?")/g, function (match, string) {
-    // expand things with two slashes or more
-    if (string.split(/\\./).length > 2) {
-      string = JSON.parse(string).replace('^\s*\n', '').replace('\n\s*^', '');
-      return '"""' + string  + '"""';
+  return data.replace(LITERAL_STRING_CANDIDATES, function (match, string) {
+    // Expand to triple quotes if there are _any_ slashes
+    if (string.match(/\\./)) {
+      const firstDoubleQuoteIdx = string.indexOf('"');
+      const colonAndAnySpacing = string.slice(0, firstDoubleQuoteIdx);
+      const rawStringifiedValue = string.slice(firstDoubleQuoteIdx, string.length);
+      const jsonValue = JSON.parse(rawStringifiedValue)
+        .replace('^\s*\n', '')
+        .replace('\n\s*^', '');
+      return `${colonAndAnySpacing}"""${jsonValue}"""`;
     } else {
       return string;
     }

src/legacy/core_plugins/console/public/tests/src/utils_string_expanding.txt

@@ -2,20 +2,41 @@
 Scripts in requests
 -------------------------------------
 {
-  "f": { "script" : { "source": "\ntest\ntest\\2\n" } },
-  "g": { "script" : "second + \"\\\";" },
-  "f": "short with \\",
-  "h": 1,
+  "f": { "script": { "source": "\ntest\ntest\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\2\n" } },
+  "g": { "script": "second + \"\\\";" },
+  "a": "short with \\",
+  "\\\\h": 1,
   "script": "a + 2"
 }
 -------------------------------------
 {
-  "f": { "script" : { "source": """
+  "f": { "script": { "source": """
 test
-test\2
+test\\\\\\\\2
 """ } },
-  "g": { "script" : """second + "\";""" },
-  "f": "short with \\",
-  "h": 1,
+  "g": { "script": """second + "\";""" },
+  "a": """short with \""",
+  "\\\\h": 1,
   "script": "a + 2"
 }
+==========
+Preserve triple quotes
+-------------------------------------
+{
+  "content\\\": "tri\"ple",
+}
+-------------------------------------
+{
+  "content\\\": """tri"ple""",
+}
+==========
+Correctly parse with JSON embedded inside values
+-------------------------------------
+{
+  "content\\\\": " { \"json\": \"inside\\\\\" ok!  1\n  \"  } "
+}
+-------------------------------------
+{
+  "content\\\\": """ { "json": "inside\\" ok!  1
+  "  } """
+}