Filter export

[e5a1240]

Prerequisites

affected version: 3.19.4

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Describe the issue

When I export a filter it is full of escape sequences.
But import of a filter without escape sequences works fine.
To track my filters via git it would be prefered to not have the escape characters in the exported filter.
(I can then easily format it via JSON beautifiers - I would not mind the export to also be already beautified, but that sounds more like a feature request)

Steps to Reproduce

Right click on filters and select "Export all to file"

Environment

3.19.4

Failure Logs

exported filter.txt
clean filter.txt

[AmmarAbouZor]

Very thanks for the suggestion. I think it would make much sense to have the filters exported in beautified JSON format.
We'll start working on this in the next couple days

[AmmarAbouZor]

We have done some experimentations with export formats, and we've found out that the escape sequences are part of serialization system that is built really deep into current Chipmunk, as it nests the structs as JSON causing the need for escape sequences.

I've also tried to remove the sequences manually, but the import didn't work automatically, and it asked to convert them, making this change really big and it will be running on a version of Chipmunk that we want to only maintain currently until we introduce a new version with the app where this problem will be solved.

We appreciate your understanding on this matter and hope that you find a workaround to solve this issue

[e5a1240]

OK, I will try to create a script to remove the escape sequences myself