Avoid Salesforce automatically minifies long text area

Question

I need to store Javascript onto a object field and execute it later. However, when I create a record on the developer console and fetch it again. I found the text is minified and the JS code is not executeable. Any thought to prevent Salesforce keep doing this?

Object: Dynamic run
Field: code (long text area)

Sample code

$Lightning.use("c:lightningLoginApp", function () {
    $Lightning.createComponent("c:LoginForm" + "", {
        "aura:id": "FormId"
    }, 
        "customLogin", 
        function (cmp) {
        // this peice of JS code will be broken if minify it.
        compHdlr = cmp;
    });
}); 

Output

Salesforce will minify the multi-line content into one.

$Lightning.use("c:lightningLoginApp", function () {     $Lightning.createComponent("c:LoginForm" + "", {         "aura:id": "FormId"     },          "customLogin",          function (cmp) {         // this peice of JS code will be broken if minify it.         compHdlr = cmp;     }); }); 

Answer 1

It's not minified, just the line breaks are removed. The problem is how you're saving the data, as long text area fields don't naturally strip out new lines. If you're using the Developer Console, that may very well be the problem; it doesn't handle certain types of data very well. Try saving the record using an Execute Anonymous script, Data Loader, something else.