mocha.opts --reporter-options issue

[cristian-smocot]

I'm using a mocha.opts file for ease-of-use config of the CLI arguments that are passed to mocha.

I have discovered that, if for example I have a mocha.opts file like the following:

--reporter mochawesome --reporter-options reportDir=mocha-reports,reportName=ViewReport,reportTitle=Mocha Tests

it will fail because of the space in reportTitle=Mocha Tests.

reportTitle=MochaTests or reportTitle=Mocha-Tests works correctly.

It would be nice to be able to use spaces in the report title, reportName, reportDirparameters of the reporter.

[adamgruber]

It's not currently possible to include spaces and this is due to how mocha parses the arguments.

See https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/blob/master/bin/options.js#L25.

I could include a hack inside Mochawesome but the better solution is to file an issue with mocha or submit a pull request to them. I would think the right way to include spaces in the arguments would be to escape them like this: --reporter-options reportTitle=title\ with\ spaces and then the regex that mocha uses for parsing can be updated to respect escaped spaces.

[adamgruber]

I submitted a pull request to mocha that would allow you to pass an option with a space in it as long as the space is escaped. mochajs/mocha#1774

[adamgruber]

Closing this issue as mocha 2.3.0 is now out and includes the pull request.