How to quote endpoint on Windows?

[mayrstefan]

It seems to be impossible the register a relative URL like "/metrics" using the plugin on Windows (cmd or powershell).

The URL seems to be either invalid or the quoting messes up the registered service endpoint. Es quoting is different with cf CLI on different operation systems: what is the correct way to register an endpoint with the cli on Windows?

Version used: metric-registrar-cli-windows-amd64-1.3.0

[tremblaysimon]

Any update on that issue?

[heycait]

We're taking a look at this now. Was there any particular error message you got?

[heycait]

We've reproduced this issue and suspect this is actually an issue with the CF CLI plugin library. We've reached out to the CF CLI folks here: https://cloudfoundry.slack.com/archives/C032824SM/p1598999944084900

[kkburr]

We are still waiting for clarity from the cf cli team. The windows command should be going into this condition, but it's not. We are waiting to learn if this case is something we should account for, or if the cf cli plugin library should handle it.

[d4nielfr4nco]

@kkburr Any updates on this issue?

[d4nielfr4nco]

In case anyone is blocked due to this. There is an alternative way to pass the PATH argument. In fact, the second argument can be PATH or URL. The URL must be the route's URL without the scheme. For instance, from the docs, you can register with this alternative way:

cf register-metrics-endpoint example otherexample.com/metrics

Reference

[TimHess]

3 years and 2 major CLI versions later, this issue has not been resolved... In addition to the workaround above, this is also easy enough to work around by just using the cf cli from WSL, but it would be nice to see an update here

[mkocher]

This is a manifestation of the cf cli plugin interface which is well overdue for an overhaul, but is of course subject to competing priorities.

This plugin is generally just syntactic sugar for creating user provided services with a custom log url schema. I recommend using @d4nielfr4nco 's workaround above, or switching to the method documented as Register using syslog drain User Provided Service.