1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/metrics/test_metric.py b/tests/metrics/test_metric.py
index 39bde6e3f8..069c0be762 100644
--- a/tests/metrics/test_metric.py
+++ b/tests/metrics/test_metric.py
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
 from tests import unittest
 
 from synapse.metrics.metric import (
-    CounterMetric, CallbackMetric, DistributionMetric, CacheMetric
+    CounterMetric, CallbackMetric, DistributionMetric, CacheMetric,
+    _escape_label_value,
 )
 
 
@@ -171,3 +172,21 @@ class CacheMetricTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             'cache:size{name="cache_name"} 1',
             'cache:evicted_size{name="cache_name"} 2',
         ])
+
+
+class LabelValueEscapeTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_simple(self):
+        string = "safjhsdlifhyskljfksdfh"
+        self.assertEqual(string, _escape_label_value(string))
+
+    def test_escape(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            "abc\\\"def\\nghi\\\\",
+            _escape_label_value("abc\"def\nghi\\"),
+        )
+
+    def test_sequence_of_escapes(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            "abc\\\"def\\nghi\\\\\\n",
+            _escape_label_value("abc\"def\nghi\\\n"),
+        )