Don't double-escape in strings in the VM Service, and don't use \u0000 to determine the string lengt

runtime/bin/vmservice/observatory/lib/src/elements/instance_ref.html

Index: runtime/bin/vmservice/observatory/lib/src/elements/instance_ref.html
diff --git a/runtime/bin/vmservice/observatory/lib/src/elements/instance_ref.html b/runtime/bin/vmservice/observatory/lib/src/elements/instance_ref.html
index 0c36ff752433b7ccf4c98f471b73a856f226d94a..1f920989406b38c6ab990706a0277fc413d97414 100644
--- a/runtime/bin/vmservice/observatory/lib/src/elements/instance_ref.html
+++ b/runtime/bin/vmservice/observatory/lib/src/elements/instance_ref.html
@@ -22,10 +22,14 @@
         <div title="{{ hoverText }}">{{ ref.valueAsString }}</div>
       </template>
 
-      <template if="{{ ref.isString || ref.isBool || ref.isInt || ref.isDouble || ref.isNull }}">
+      <template if="{{ ref.isBool || ref.isInt || ref.isDouble || ref.isNull }}">
         <a on-click="{{ goto }}" _href="{{ url }}">{{ ref.valueAsString }}</a>
       </template>
 
+      <template if="{{ ref.isString }}">
+        <a on-click="{{ goto }}" _href="{{ url }}">{{ asStringLiteral(ref.valueAsString, ref.valueAsStringIsTruncated) }}</a>

[turnidge, 2014/09/09 16:12:31]

I suppose we could actually make the "..." be a link which fetches the
non-truncated string and re-displays it inline, much like the curly-block
expansion.

+      </template>
+
       <template if="{{ ref.isType }}">
         <a on-click="{{ goto }}" _href="{{ url }}">{{ ref.name }}</a>
       </template>