Parameter variables

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by willsteele at 2012-10-23 08:54:04

I need to check all of my parameters in a given function to see what is being used and what is not. Is there a variable I can examine rather than having to look at each parameter one by one?
by DonJ at 2012-10-23 15:45:56
Well, $PSBoundParameters has all bound parameters; this won’t include any parameter which received pipeline input, though. I don’t think. But you sort of still have to look at each one, right? It’s a hashtable, so the keys are your parameter names: $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey(‘whatever’) would return $True if that parameter was used.

See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/arch … eters.aspx.
by Jason_Yoder_MCT at 2012-10-23 16:58:13
Willsteel

Here is something to take a look at. There are two functions below.

Test-Params is the one you are most interested in. It simply list all the parameters of a function and returns True or False. True if the parameter has a value.

Test is a function with 3 parameters. It passes its parameter information to Test-Function.

The calling statement only sends information to 2 of the parameters. You should get something like this in back:

Parameter HasData
--------- -------
A True
b True
c False

What you do from here is up to you. Have fun!


Function Test-Params
{
Param (
$Set1,
$Set2
)
ForEach ($Item2 in $Set2)
{
$Obj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject
$Obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Parameter" -Value $Item2
$Obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "HasData" -Value $False

ForEach ($Item1 in $Set1)
{

If ($Item1 -eq $Item2)
{
$Obj.HasData = $True
}

}
Write-Output $Obj
}


}

Function test
{
Param(
[String]$A,
[int]$b,
[String]$c

)

Test-Params ($PSBoundParameters.keys) ((Get-Command test).Parameters).keys


}

test 'Hello' 5
by Jason_Yoder_MCT at 2012-10-23 17:00:26
Don,

Like you answer better.