When I create object in powershell v2 i am unable to access powershell member properties, which will flowlesly works with PowerShell V3. e.g. if i create below object in v3,
$Services = @();
$item = @{};
$item.Name = "ServiceName";
$item.Action = 2;
$item.ActionTime = Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
$obj = New-Object PSObject -Property $item;
$Services = $Services + $obj
I can access $services.Action which will be 2, whether on PowerShell v2 it will be blank.
Any help?
thanks
This is actually because you are wrapping the object in an array.
In v2, to get all of the Action properties of an array of objects, you would do something like this:
$Services | ForEach-Object { $_.Action }
# or
$Services | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Action
In PowerShell v3, this is no longer necessary:
$Services.Action
Will automatically perform the same operation.
Further, if you had just done $obj.Action it would have worked in v2 as well (for just that one object).
Depending on if you want to list all actions or just for a particular index, you can use:
$Services | Select -ExpandProperty Action
or (in the case of the first service):
$Services[0].Action
