For this challenge, I wrote a seriers of extensive walk-through articles.
In the part 1 article, I cover the basics for PowerShell objects and classes, Get-Member command, the Requires statement, ValueFromPipeline, and the StringBuilder class. My solution (part 1) solved 7 primary requirements and 1 personal requirement.
Standard
- Copy selected properties
- [] Insert placeholder for methods
- Work from pipeline
- Allow user to specify a new class name
- Support Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.x
Bonus
- Allow the user to include or exclude properties
- Include a placeholder for a constructor
- [] Let the user specify a method
- [] Be VSCode aware an insert the new class automatically into the current file
- Support cross-platform
Personal
- [] Contained in a small module, as there will be a few private functions.
- [] Use an existing PSCustomObject with non-conventional property names.
- [] A private function would be used to enforce proper PascalCase casing and removal of punctuation (with maybe exception of period).
- [] Should be recursive.
- [] Any object that contains a property which is itself another complex object should generate a separate class definition.
- Generate two constructors:
- [] One empty constructor to create a clean instance of the class.
- [] One constructor that will use the input object to populate a new instance.
- [] Allow user to specify hidden properties.
- [] If not specified, detect the property type and include in definition.
In part 2, I solved 3 personal requirements, which included converting property and class names to PascalCase, detecting property types, and hiding properties.
Primary
- [] Insert placeholder for methods
- [] Let the user specify a method
- [] Be VSCode aware an insert the new class automatically into the current file
Personal
- [] Contained in a small module, as there will be a few private functions.
- Use an existing PSCustomObject with non-conventional property names.
- A private function would be used to enforce proper PascalCase casing and removal of punctuation (with maybe exception of period).
- [] Should be recursive.
- [] Any object that contains a property which is itself another complex object should generate a separate class definition.
- Allow user to specify hidden properties.
- If not specified, detect the property type and include in definition.
In part 3, I solved 2 primary requirements and the remaining of my personal requirements, which included adding class methods and recursive capability to the ConvertTo-ClassDefinition function.
Primary
- Insert placeholder for methods
- Let the user specify a method
- [] Be VSCode aware an insert the new class automatically into the current file
Personal
- Contained in a small module, as there will be a few private functions.
- Should be recursive.
- Any object that contains a property which is itself another complex object should generate a separate class definition.