Apostrophe in single quotes causes silent failure

[brianjmurrell]

For example:

config rule
	option name 'Foo's subnet DHCP Broadcast'
…

So yes, an apostrophe inside of single quotes it really just a(n unescaped) single quote inside of single quotes. It's hideous of somebody to do that. But humans are, well, … humans. Computers are better than humans (at some things, particularly things like this).

Firewall4 equally (IMHO, or maybe even more so) hideously silently fails on that. No error/warning/failure-to-load-rules. It pooches the ruleset, locking out a remote user!!

[brada4]

Can you enter that via uci or luci?

[jow-]

That is invalid uci syntax, unrelated to fw4.

[brianjmurrell]

Yeah, fair enough I suppose. I guess I was just hoping for a better parser. It was a frustrating hour or two to figure out that the reason for the firewall locking me out was as simple as a syntax error.