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Failed loading filenames with `+`

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, javascript
Domain
backend, databases

Research direction

Start by reading index.js at lines 785-790 and reproduce the manifest generation with the S3 filename hello+world.csv. Confirm that the generated manifest preserves the plus sign and that Redshift can load the referenced key without a missing-key error.

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Description

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-redshift-loader/blob/master/index.js#L785-L790

This line is replacing all + with (whitespace) which is problematic for filenames with +, e.g.:
Original filename in S3: hello+world.csv
Generated manifest: hello world.csv
Then Redshift will complain the key does not exist when trying to load the manifest.
I manually changed it to:

url: 's3://' + batchEntries[i],

and it worked fine for me.

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