A Module to Create Modules and Advanced Functions

re: A Module to Create Modules and Advanced Functions

tfl — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:37:08 GMT

Nice Post - I love the concept! I will look to play with this!

One point: In the penultimate setup command above, you typed:

PS> New-Item –Type Containter –Force –path ($Env:PSMODULEPATH -Split ";")[0]

On my system, with CTP3, this caused an error:

C:\> New-Item -Type Containter -Force -path ($Env:PSMODULEPATH -Split ";")[0]

w-Item : The type is not a known type for the file system. Only "file" and "directory" can be specified.

line:1 char:9

New-Item <<<< -Type Containter -Force -path ($Env:PSMODULEPATH -Split ";")[0]

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-Item], PSArgumentException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Argument,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewItemCommand

A modified version did, however work:

C:\> New-Item -Type directory -Force -path ($Env:PSMODULEPATH -Split ";")[0]

Directory: C:\Users\tfl\Documents\WindowsPowerShell

de LastWriteTime Length Name

-- ------------- ------ ----

--- 1/2/2009 6:28 PM Modules

re: A Module to Create Modules and Advanced Functions

LucD — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:52:57 GMT

Shouldn't that be Container instead of Containter ?

At the moment I can't seem to download the attachment.

re: A Module to Create Modules and Advanced Functions

David Johnston — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:35:36 GMT

There are some bugs with the help for the advanced functions. I have filed one dealing with the parameter attributes not coming through correctly in the help if you have multiple parameter sets. I very well may just be doing this wrong, but please check out the bug on connect, so maybe you can set me straight.

Thanks!

re: A Module to Create Modules and Advanced Functions

gkeary — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:58:14 GMT

This is a great idea and I would love the source code.

But the link to Module.zip appears to be broken?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

re: A Module to Create Modules and Advanced Functions

Heath Stewart — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:08:08 GMT

I recommend you actually put #requires outside of the help comment block; otherwise, (at least as of CTP3) it will show up under "NOTES" (in the example above) when you do get-help on the function.

re: A Module to Create Modules and Advanced Functions

tutorial casino — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:18:02 GMT

I think it is a common practice. First you create a sub module which implements all the necessary hooks for other modules to work nicely with your module. You solve it "in house" first, and when you think the code is perfect then you try to make a common goal with other module authors you try to work with..The module works with 3 other cont rib modules (and there are some patches for other module integrations in the issue queue). The code works nicely, but I would not push the code to other module maintainers yet..