ExternalData: Preserve escaped semicolons during argument expansion

The CMake language implicitly flattens lists so a ";" in a list element
must be escaped with a backslash.  List expansion removes backslashes
escaping semicolons to leave raw semicolons in the values.  Teach
ExternalData_Add_Test and ExternalData_Expand_Arguments to re-escape
semicolons found in list elements so the resulting argument lists work
as if constructed directly by the set() command.

For example:

  ExternalData_Add_Test(Data NAME test1 COMMAND ... "a\\;b")
  ExternalData_Expand_Arguments(Data args2 "c\\;d")
  add_test(NAME test2 COMMAND ... ${args2})

should be equivalent to

  set(args1 "a\\;b")
  add_test(NAME test1 COMMAND ... ${args1})
  set(args2 "c\\;d")
  add_test(NAME test2 COMMAND ... ${args2})

which is equivalent to

  add_test(NAME test1 COMMAND ... "a;b")
  add_test(NAME test2 COMMAND ... "c;d")

Note that it is not possible to make ExternalData_Add_Test act exactly
like add_test when quoted arguments contain semicolons because the CMake
language flattens lists when constructing function ARGN values.  This
re-escape approach at least allows test arguments to have semicolons.

While at it, teach ExternalData APIs to not transform "DATA{...;...}"
arguments because the contained semicolons are non-sensical.

Suggested-by: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <jchris.fillionr@kitware.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/ExternalData/RunCMakeTest.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/ExternalData/RunCMakeTest.cmake
index 5ee46c9..ceb2ecf 100644
--- a/Tests/RunCMake/ExternalData/RunCMakeTest.cmake
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/ExternalData/RunCMakeTest.cmake
@@ -21,4 +21,7 @@ run_cmake(NormalData2)
 run_cmake(NormalData3)
 run_cmake(NormalDataSub1)
 run_cmake(NotUnderRoot)
+run_cmake(Semicolon1)
+run_cmake(Semicolon2)
+run_cmake(Semicolon3)
 run_cmake(SubDirectory1)