[cmake-developers] [CMake 0013302]: Improve mechanism allowing to pass command line parameter to ctest script

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=13302 
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Reported By:                Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   13302
Category:                   CTest
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2012-06-13 21:05 EDT
Last Modified:              2012-06-13 21:05 EDT
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Summary:                    Improve mechanism allowing to pass command line
parameter to ctest script
Description: 
When setting up dashboard it is sometimes useful to pass parameter to ctest
script.

A possible approach is to pass parameters doing the following:

  ctest -S /path/to/script.cmake,OPTNAME1##OPTVALUE1^^OPTNAME2##OPTVALUE2

Then, the following code can be used in the called CTest script to "extract" the
associated value:

if(NOT CTEST_SCRIPT_ARG STREQUAL "")
  string(REPLACE "^^" "\\;" CTEST_SCRIPT_ARG_AS_LIST "${CTEST_SCRIPT_ARG}")
  set(CTEST_SCRIPT_ARG_AS_LIST ${CTEST_SCRIPT_ARG_AS_LIST})
  foreach(argn_argv ${CTEST_SCRIPT_ARG_AS_LIST})
    string(REPLACE "##" "\\;" argn_argv_list ${argn_argv})
    set(argn_argv_list ${argn_argv_list})
    list(GET argn_argv_list 0 argn)
    list(GET argn_argv_list 1 argv)
    set(${argn} ${argv})
  endforeach()
endif()

When more complex value, like URL are passed as parameter, special characters
like ":" need also to be "encoded". See issue
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12953

A mechanism similar to what's done with "cmake" executable could probably be
implemented. It means parameter could be passed using: 
   -DOPTNAME1:STRING=OPTVALUE1
 
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Issue History 
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2012-06-13 21:05 Jean-Christophe Fillion-RobinNew Issue                         
          
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