Consider offering comma-separated arguments instead of semicolon separated

[fgimian]

Hey there, hope you're doing really well.

I find it a bit inconvenient that the reportgenerator CLI expects semicolon separated items for arguments such as -reporttypes. Semicolon is a special character in almost all shells which forces users to quote this argument when running the tool.

Would it be possible to at least offer the ability to comma separate these values as well?

e.g.

Instead of:

dotnet reportgenerator `
  -reports:src/**/coverage.cobertura.xml `
  -targetdir:.coverage `
  "-reporttypes:Cobertura;lcov;Html" `
  -filefilters:-*.g.cs

We would be able to do the following:

dotnet reportgenerator `
  -reports:src/**/coverage.cobertura.xml `
  -targetdir:.coverage `
  -reporttypes:Cobertura,lcov,Html `
  -filefilters:-*.g.cs

Thanks heaps
Fotis

[danielpalme]

Thanks for your suggestion.
I made the necessary changes in f778630

The next release will contain this change.

[fgimian]

Thanks for your suggestion.
I made the necessary changes in f778630

The next release will contain this change.

Thank you so much!!

[kbell-tamu]

I'm using Azure DevOps and just encountered this issue as well when trying to build on a linux host. In addition to the above fix, I think a change is also needed to the code in the AzureDevOps task line 71 where it is splitting the report types to make sure an HTML report is added. There is also code on line 21 to split custom settings, but I haven't used that feature to know if it's a problem there. Thank you!

[danielpalme]

@kbell-tamu
Thanks for the hint! I will change it there too!

[danielpalme]

Release 5.4.4 is now available.
The AzureDevOps task has been updated as well.