Vertical bar character | is not escaped in cURL (CMD) request snipped body

[erik-puchinger]

Q&A (please complete the following information)

• OS: Windows 11
• Browser: chrome
• Version: 138.0.7204.169
• Method of installation: springdoc-openapi
• Swagger-UI version: 5.21.0
• Swagger/OpenAPI version: Swagger 2.2.30, OpenAPI 3.0

Content & configuration

Swagger-UI configuration options (request snippets enabled):

requestSnippetsEnabled: true

Describe the bug you're encountering

The vertical bar character | in the cURL (CMD) request body of the request snippet is not escaped. When running the generated CMD command, the first string after the | is considered a command.

To reproduce...

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Enable request snippets
2. Construct a "Try it out" request with a JSON request body having the vertical bar/pipe character |
3. Execute the request and copy the generated cURL (CMD) snippet into a Windows cmd.exe
4. The | character is not escaped which leads to a 'some-string' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. error message in CMD

Expected behavior

The vertical bar character | in the request body of CMD curl snippets is escaped (with a caret ^)

Screenshots

Not escaped | in request body:

Escaped | in request body: