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Pat Richard
Pat Richard

Reputation: 69

Create PowerShell PSObject in C# cmdlet

New to C# but experienced in PowerShell. Taking over someone else's code. Writing a compiled PowerShell module, and trying to figure out how to create an object based on returned data. Right now, code returns a string:

ServerResponse<UCCSiteModel> requestModel = this.MakeRequest("/site/api/", "site", "GET", this.Credentials, queryString);
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

if (requestModel != null && requestModel.Response != null)
{
    builder.AppendLine("SiteID: " + requestModel.Response.SiteID);
    builder.AppendLine("Identity: " + requestModel.Response.SiteName);
    builder.AppendLine("Site Code: " + requestModel.Response.SiteCode);
    builder.AppendLine("Contact Name: " + requestModel.Response.ContactName);
    builder.AppendLine("Contact Number: " + requestModel.Response.ContactNumber);
    builder.AppendLine("Contact Email Address: " + requestModel.Response.ContactEmailAddress);
    builder.AppendLine("Address: " + requestModel.Response.Address);
    builder.AppendLine("City: " + requestModel.Response.City);
    builder.AppendLine("State: " + requestModel.Response.State);
    builder.AppendLine("Post Code: " + requestModel.Response.PostCode);
    builder.AppendLine("Time Zone: " + requestModel.Response.Timezone);
    builder.AppendLine("Longitude: " + requestModel.Response.longitude);
    builder.AppendLine("Latitude: " + requestModel.Response.latitude);                    
    this.WriteResponse(requestModel, builder.ToString());
}

How do I create an object from requestModel.Response to send back to PowerShell instead of the string? When writing PowerShell, I would normally use New-Object PsObject, and then Add-Member. Not sure how to do that in C#, or what it's called (so I can search). Anyone?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3536

Answers (2)

Mathias R. Jessen
Mathias R. Jessen

Reputation: 174485

You can mirror the behavior of Add-Member simply by calling Add() on the Members property of your PSObject (I would change the property names to CamelCase for ease of accessibility in PowerShell):

if (requestModel != null && requestModel.Response != null)
{
    PSObject responseObject = new PSObject();

    responseObject.Members.Add(new PSNoteProperty("SiteID", requestModel.Response.SiteID));
    responseObject.Members.Add(new PSNoteProperty("Identity", requestModel.Response.SiteName));
    // and so on etc... 
    responseObject.Members.Add(new PSNoteProperty("Latitude", requestModel.Response.latitude));

    this.WriteObject(responseObject);
}

Upvotes: 10

Wade73
Wade73

Reputation: 4509

Without knowing all the details I can't say this is the best plan, but here is what I would do. You could define a class and then return it. So you would create a new class such as below:

public class RequestResponse {
    public int SiteID { get; set;}
    public string Identity { get; set; }
    other fields...
}

Next, in the code you posted, you would create the object and then fill the properties of the class.

var response = new RequestResponse();

if (requestModel != null && requestModel.Response != null)
{
    response.SiteID = requestModel.Response.SiteID;
    response.Identity  = requestModel.Response.Identity ;

    fill in other fields...
    this.WriteResponse(requestModel, response);
}

I hope this gets you started in the right direction.

Wade

Upvotes: 2

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