Summary
Unable to display the pipe character in a table
Steps to reproduce
Have a pipe character as part of some text in a table, and send it in the JSON payload to the incoming webhook. Also tried escaping the pipe character.
Expected behavior
Have the pipe character display alongside text in any given cell
Observed behavior
A new cell is created and everything is shifted over when a pipe character is present in the text
When attempting to escape the pipe character with ‘’, the escape character is not displayed, and the above behavior is observed.
Exact payload:
{"text" : "Pipe test: |Test1|Test2| |:--|:--| |This text has | in it|Oh boy|"}
When attempting to escape the escape character (), the following error is observed and nothing is outputted to the channel:
{“id”:“web.incoming_webhook.parse.app_error”,“message”:“Unable to parse incoming data”,“detailed_error”:"",“request_id”:“yc39wf6ehtrpffn1wp4nguyqfr”,“status_code”:500}
Exact payload:
{"text" : "Pipe test:
|Test1|Test2|
|:--|:--|
|This text has \| in it|Oh boy|"}