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Brandon
Brandon

Reputation: 771

PowerShell Try/Catch with If Statements

Problem/Details

I am working in PowerShell and trying to figure out how custom Try Catch statements work. My current major issue involves mixing Try/Catch and If statements. So the idea of what I am trying to achieve is something like this:

try {
    if (!$someVariable.Text) { throw new exception 0 }
    elseif ($someVariable.Text -lt 11) { throw new exception 1 }
    elseif (!($someVariable.Text -match '[a-zA-Z\s]')) { throw new exception 2}
}
catch 0 {
    [System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("Custom Error Message 1")
}
catch 1 {
    [System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("Custom Error Message 2")
}
catch 2 {
    [System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("Custom Error Message 3")
}

Now I know the above code is very inaccurate in terms of what the actual code will be, but I wanted to visually display what I'm thinking and trying to achieve.

Question

Does anyone know how to create custom error messages with PowerShell that could assist me with achieving something close to the above idea and explain your answer a bit? Thank you in advance

So far, the link below is the closest thing I have found to what I'm trying to achieve:

PowerShell Try, Catch, custom terminating error message

Upvotes: 3

Views: 30093

Answers (2)

ArcSet
ArcSet

Reputation: 6860

The Error you throw is stored at $_.Exception.Message

$a = 1
try{
    If($a -eq 1){
        throw "1"
    }
}catch{
    if ($_.Exception.Message -eq 1){
        "Error 1"
    }else{
        $_.Exception.Message
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

Maximilian Burszley
Maximilian Burszley

Reputation: 19694

I would suggest using the $PSCmdlet ThrowTerminatingError() method. Here's an example:

Function New-ErrorRecord
{
    param(
        [String]$Exception,
        [String]$ExceptionMessage,
        [System.Management.Automation.ErrorCategory] $ErrorCategory,
        [String] $TargetObject
    )

    $e = New-Object $Exception $ExceptionMessage
    $errorRecord = New-Object System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord $e, $ErrorID, $ErrorCategory, $TargetObject
    return $ErrorRecord
}

Try
{
If (not condition)
{
    $Error = @{
      Exception = 'System.Management.Automation.ParameterBindingException'
      ExceptionMessage = 'Error text here'
      ErrorCategory = [System.Management.Automation.ErrorCategory]::InvalidArgument
      TargetObject = ''
    }
    $PSCmdlet.ThrowTerminatingError((New-ErrorRecord @Error))
}
} Catch [System.Management.Automation.ParameterBindingException]
{
    'do stuff'
}

Upvotes: 2

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