fix: preserve whitespace in equals-form flag values - #2425
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LGTM. Verified manually:
- Change is minimal and correct: value extracted from raw token via
strings.Cut(rargs[0], "=")while flag-name classification stays on the trimmed token. Raw prefix before the flag's=can only contain whitespace/-(never=), so the first=always maps correctly (embedded equals in values unaffected). - Makes equals-form consistent with the separate-arg form, which already took the value raw.
- Focused behavior change for
--int=42/--bool=(parse errors instead of silent trim) is consistent with the separate-arg form and documented in release notes. - Ran go build/vet/goimports (clean); new tests + full suite pass on PR head; re-applying tests onto base reproduces the ~20 equals-form whitespace failures, confirming they're meaningful regression tests.
- No API surface change; the docs/v3diff gate is unaffected.
Non-blocking nits: comment could note that firstArg is already trimmed (why raw arg is used); subtest name whitespace=%q prints _ for a space.
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What type of PR is this?
bug
What this PR does / why we need it:
parseFlagstrimmed the entire argument before extracting the value after=. Consequently,--text=" hello "became" hello"even withTrimSpace: false, while--text " hello "preserved the value.Extract the value from the original argument, keeping flag-name classification unchanged. Each flag's value parser now controls trimming and validation.
Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Related to #2423, which inspired this investigation and fixed positional whitespace preservation, and #2169, which addressed string-slice trimming.
Testing
The regression tests fail in 25 cases with the original parser and all 60 cases pass with the fix. Coverage includes string, slice, and map flags; aliases; empty values; Unicode whitespace; embedded equals; and numeric/boolean validation.
Release Notes
Preserve whitespace in equals-form flag values, respecting each flag's trimming and validation rules. Numeric and boolean values with trailing whitespace now return parse
errors instead of being silently trimmed.