[LAD] Whitespaces in jack client/port names / jack_connect

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-08-27 11:16:43 +0200:
> On Friday 27 August 2010 01:34:04 Philipp wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have issues with jack client names that contain whitespaces.
> > Example:
> > 
> > $ jack_connect MPlayer [19079]:out_0 system:playback_2
> > ERROR [19079]:out_0 not a valid port
> > 
> > Any idea how I can make this work? I tried:
> > 
> > $ jack_connect "MPlayer [19079]:out_0" "system:playback_2"
> > ERROR MPlayer [19079]:out_0 not a valid port
> > 
> > $ jack_connect 'MPlayer [19079]:out_0' 'system:playback_2'
> > ERROR MPlayer [19079]:out_0 not a valid port
> > 
> > So I wonder whether spaces in jack client names and ports are even
> > allowed, since imho jack_connect is a rather fundamental tool, and
> > either the tool or those clients are broken.
> 
> Yes, spaces in client and port names are allowed.
> 
> Yes, some clients have problems with that (jconvolver comes to mind). Buts its 
> the clients that need fixing there.
> 
> Yes, on the commandline you need to quote the spaces so they count as one 
> argument. But that is the case for every commandline tool when an argument 
> with spaces shouldn't be devided in two arguments.
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Arnold

Thanks.

It's just a pain for me because I use a jack_lsp -c / jack_connect
equivalent in my program, and now need to add a bunch of parsing /
string manipulation stuff to handle those few clients that use spaces.
-- 
Philipp

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