I am trying to send some information containing whitespaces via lava-send. Obviously this is not supported. Is this a bug or by design?

I tried the following command:

lava-send my-message my-variable="some string with whitespaces"

Which produces the following output:

<LAVA_SEND_DEBUG lava_multi_node_send preparing Tue Aug 27 15:02:41 CEST 2019>
<LAVA_SEND_DEBUG _lava_multi_node_send started Tue Aug 27 15:02:41 CEST 2019>
<LAVA_MULTI_NODE> <LAVA_SEND my-message my-variable=some>
<LAVA_SEND_DEBUG _lava_multi_node_send finished Tue Aug 27 15:02:41 CEST 2019>
<LAVA_SEND_DEBUG lava_multi_node_send finished Tue Aug 27 15:02:41 CEST 2019>
Received Multi_Node API <LAVA_SEND>
messageID: SEND-my-message
lava-multinode lava-send
1 key value pair(s) to be sent.
Handling signal <LAVA_SEND {"timeout": 360, "request": "lava_send", "messageID": "my-message", "message": {"my-variable": "some"}}>

So the string is truncated on the first whitespace.