Pass interface type to c# in Powershell script?

Question

I have a C# library that I'm trying to script against where one of the most important calls has the following method signature:

DoThing(IDictionary<int, IList<int>> dict)

I need to write a powershell script that constructs an object to be passed in. I have written powershell to construct the same thing, but with concrete classes:

$myArg= New-Object 'Collections.Generic.Dictionary[int, Collections.Generic.List[int]]'
$list = New-Object 'Collections.Generic.List[int]'

$myArg.Add(7, $list)

[PowershellReflectionTest.ReflectionTester]::DoThing($myArg)

However, this is effectively creating a Dictionary<int, List<int>> object, which is (for some reason; I don't know why) incompatible with IDictionary<int, IList<int>>.

How can I create a compatible type in powershell?

vcsjones · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-15 18:37:16Z

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Use:

$myArg= New-Object 'Collections.Generic.Dictionary[int, Collections.Generic.IList[int]]'
$list = New-Object 'Collections.Generic.List[int]'

In short, this changes the Dictionary's TValue to be an IList<int> as expected by your C# library.

The list itself is not declared as an interface however.

answered Mar 15, 2016 at 18:37

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Benjin Over a year ago

Wow. I can't believe I didn't think to try that. I assumed because there's no strong left-side typing in powershell that it wouldn't be enough or something.

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