My understanding is that generally one shouldn't want to do this, but my particular use case involves testing a custom user command, so being able to invoke something like ⎕SE.Foo 'mycmd my arguments' would be quite useful.
Yes, per the documentation:
This implementation means that application code can invoke user commands by calling ⎕SE.UCMD directly.
In your case, it would be ⎕SE.UCMD 'mycmd my arguments'
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This is a question about using PowerShell with Custom Commands (or scheduled tasks) in the Adaxes Active Directory management software by Softerra.
I am trying to accept a parameter from a user when using a custom command, then I need to take that value and modify it for use in a future action of the custom command.
A "for example" use-case would be creating a script that sets a user's out of office, where the custom command takes a target user reference in the out of office message. The first action in the custom command would find the email address of the provided user, then the second action would set the out-of-office with a message telling recipients for immediate assistance to email the provided user's email address. I realize there may be ways to solve this with one PowerShell script, but there are MANY scenarios where it would be beneficial to process provided information with a script action for use with MULTIPLE future actions in the custom command.
I already know how to access parameter values in custom commands for Softerra Adaxes, but I can't figure out how to WRITE to parameter values.
Accessing values:
$context.GetParameterValue('param-Example')
Does anyone know how to write TO parameter values? $context.SetParameterValue() does not work. This would be extremely useful for being able to store and manipulate values between actions in custom commands in Adaxes.
If anyone is looking for something similar, the answer I got from Adaxes support was that there is no means to do this currently with their software.
The only work-around would be writing to a property of the object being modified, then reference that property later.
For instance, writing a value to the extensionAttribute1 property of a user, then referencing that later in the script in a different action.
If anyone comes up with a better solution or Adaxes changes this, please feel free to suggest a better solution!
I am looking for a middleware pipeline option for PowerShell. That means I want to provide each function with pre and post statements for a module that is not a C# cmlet.
Is there already something in this direction?
The background is that I don't want to store debug functions at every command but want to measure all my functions at a central place.
Thanks a lot
There is no way to put code in front of a call to a cmdlet, or after like you can when writing your own functions or using something like try\catch\finally. You cant really emulate that type of a work flow with cmdlet calls that I have found.
Besides REST-API Calls, I need to call my own Java-Class, which basically does something, which I want to confirm later in the test via REST-API-Calls.
When calling my Java-Class, there is an expected behavior: It may fail or not fail, depending on the actual Test-Case.
Is there any chance to code this expectation this into my test-class:
java("com.org.xyz.App").method("run").methodArgs(args).build();
As this is the Main-Class, which should be executed later in a automated fashion, I would prefer to validate the Return-Code.
However, I'm looking for any possible way (Exception-Assertion, Stdout-Check, ..) to verify the status of the program.
As you are using the Java DSL to write test cases I would suggest to go with custom test action implementation and/or initializing your custom class directly in the test method and call the method as you would do with any other API.
You can wrap the custom code in a custom AbstractTestAction implementation as you then have access to the TestContext and your custom code is integrated into the test action sequence.
The java("com.org.xyz.App").method("run").methodArgs(args) API is just for compliance to the XML DSL where you do not have the opportunity to initialize own Java class instances. Way too complicated for your requirement in my opinion.
I would like to make an application simmilar to CodeFights in that a user is given a set of excercises for which he has to code solutions. I figured out how to take a users JavaScript code and run it on a Node.js server using for example the Function constructor:
try {
var solver = new Function('arg1', 'arg2', bodyAsString);
} catch(e) {
console.log('Function cannot be parsed');
}
Good thing about this approach is that the solver(...,...) function now has access to global scope only and not the scope it was made in. Even better one could also combine this with a sandbox module.
But what is the best approach if I want to use multiple languages - let's say JavaScript, Python and C++. How do I go about solving this problem if I want to give the user a choice of language? Do I write his solution to a file and try to execute it via command line also in some kind of a sandbox mode? Can this even be done if I use Node.js as backend?
I'm trying to implement API of our product using Powershell. E.g., I'd like to create a function Remove-OurProductEntity. This function should have both -ById and -ByFullPath parameters to know which entity to delete. They shouldn't be both mandatory, but only one of them.
If user specified one of them in the command line, the second mustn't appear in autocompletion and Powershell shouldn't ask user to define the second. Moreover, if user specified both, function should ask to define the only one.
Is it possible to be done in Powershell? Or I should handle all the logic inside the function?
Powershell has really COOL language, and guess, something similar should be.
Parameter sets are your friend.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2008/12/23/powershell-v2-parametersets.aspx