[FIX] web: prevent crash when searching for escaped strings

Recent works in the search view (in 12.0) on dynamic filters had an
unfortunate effect: when the user tries to input escaped strings (for
example "test" in custom filters, there was a crash.

The reason is that the JS python parser (or more specifically, the
tokenizer) was unable to parse that as a string.  It worked before
because the web client sent the raw string to the server.  However, with
dynamic filters, this is no longer the case, and we need to parse
domains to be able to combine them.

In this commit, we modify the tokenizer to be able to work with escaped
strings.

closes odoo/odoo#29324

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/addons/web/static/tests/core/py_utils_tests.js b/addons/web/static/tests/core/py_utils_tests.js
index d59fd30f957..be5760fc6c7 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/tests/core/py_utils_tests.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/tests/core/py_utils_tests.js
@@ -1254,6 +1254,13 @@ QUnit.module('core', function () {
         assert.checkAST(expr);
     });
 
+    QUnit.test("parse escaped quoted strings", function (assert) {
+        assert.expect(2);
+
+        assert.checkAST(`'\"'`, "a string containing \"");
+        assert.checkAST(`'\'`, "a string containing \'");
+    });
+
     QUnit.module('pyutils (_normalizeDomain)');
 
     QUnit.assert.checkNormalization = function (domain, normalizedDomain) {