Classes and data types #38
Description
Please add data types for simpler handling and error checking.
Having types like below will allow:
- PowerShell to perform syntax checks and show useful error messages
- Allow to do type validation
- Provide self documenting code
- Better interoperability between the New, Get and Set functions
- Better error handling by strictly typing variables.
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class NetboxVirtualMachineCustomFields {
[ValidateNotNull()][String]$customField000 = ''
[ValidateNotNull()][String]$customField001 = ''
}
class NetboxTenantCustomFields {
[ValidateNotNull()][String]$tenant_customField000
}
class NetboxVirtualMachineObject {
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()][String]$name
[ValidateNotNull()][Int64]$device_role = $nbDeviceRole.Id
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()][Int64]$cluster
[ValidateNotNull()][ValidateSet('active')][String]$status = 'active'
[ValidateNotNull()][Int64]$tenant
[ValidateNotNull()][Int64]$platform = $nbPlatform.Id
[ValidateNotNull()][Int64]$vcpus = 0
[ValidateNotNull()][Int64]$memory = 0
[ValidateNotNull()][Int64]$disk = 0
[ValidateNotNull()][String]$comment = ''
[ValidateNotNull()][String[]]$tags = [String[]]@('')
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()][NetboxVirtualMachineCustomFields]$custom_fields
}
class NetboxClusterObject {
[ValidateNotNull()][String]$name
[ValidateNotNull()][Int64]$type = $nbClusterType.id
}
class NetboxTenantObject {
[ValidateNotNull()][String]$name
[ValidateNotNull()][String]$slug
[ValidateNotNull()][Int64]$group
[ValidateNotNull()][NetboxTenantCustomFields]$custom_fields
}
#>
My example is currently static, but it could be generated dynamically too. Just overwriting the new method and calling Add-Member before returning the instantiated object.