powershell errors

[wagosia]

How to catch errors,warnings, confirmation messages from powershell commands ?

[dfinke]

Thanks for the issue. Please post a small snippet of what you're trying to do. I suspect errors and warnings will be easier than confirmation messages.

Thanks
Doug

[wagosia]

When executing a Powershell command it can provide standard output, error or warning. When using edge-ps, we have "result" as standard output however I don't know how to find out if the command did run properly when there is no output from Powershell command or error / warning was present.

I know that we can use errorvariable or warningwariable in order to catch them in Powershell, however how to pass them back to nodejs ?

Only way I can think of is catching -ev -we -ov into separate variables then creating a powershell object which would have result, error, warning, then convert this object into json string and pass it as "result". However this is such a long way to do it I hope that there is a better one.

My example:

var test = edge.func('ps', function() {/*
    $PARAM = "$inputFromJS" | ConvertFrom-Json;
    Get-EventLog -logname $PARAM.logname -ev ownE -wv ownW -ov ownO > $null
    $OWN = @{}
    $OWN.error = $ownE  
    $OWN.warning = $ownW
    $OWN.result = $ownO
    $OWN | ConvertTo-JSON
*/});

It's still not catching all errors :-( for example following error is not going to be "saved" into errorvariable

PS C:\Users\wagosia\Desktop> get-eventlog -logname Application -newest 5a -ev test
Get-EventLog : Cannot bind parameter 'Newest'. Cannot convert value "5a" to type "System.Int32". Error: "Input string
was not in a correct format."
At line:1 char:43
+ get-eventlog -logname Application -newest 5a -ev test
+                                           ~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-EventLog], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetEventLogCommand

PS C:\Users\wagosia\Desktop> $test
PS C:\Users\wagosia\Desktop>

[dfinke]

Thanks for the issue. I haven't layered in pushing errors back to node. Let me know if you'd want to take a crack at that.

[jacargentina]

I have a similar problem: if i write some syntax error on the powershell text, i have no indication of the error when back on Node. Any advance on this ?

[dfinke]

The C# that handles the PowerShell engine and runspace does not handle returning errors from the pipeline etc. That needs to be extended.