Description of problem:

I recently wrote some simple bash scripts that allow me to get/put topics via the REST interface (allowing them to be edited in my local editor). This works pretty well so far, but I have noticed when saving topics using the REST API newlines inside <screen> and <programlisting> tags are lost.

When I go into skynet itself and put the newlines back in and save the topic the newlines are saved correctly. As a result I think either:

- I'm doing something wrong in the way I am formatting the PUT request, this would be my first assumption except that it only appears to impact newlines in these specific elements while I treat all text the same in my script.

or;

- the REST API is removing the newlines when processing/saving.

I'll post a follow up link as a private comment linking my script(s) but essentially the way I escape the XML string before sending it to the API is covered in my stackoverflow answer [1]. The replacement for newlines is:

JSON_TOPIC_RAW=${JSON_TOPIC_RAW//^@/\\\n} # \n (newline)

Where ^@ is VIM's representation of the newline control character.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10053678/escaping-characters-in-bash-for-json/11495576#11495576