Private/Remove-AtwsData.ps1
<# .COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) ECIT Solutions AS. All rights reserved. Licensed under the MIT license. See https://github.com/ecitsolutions/Autotask/blob/master/LICENSE.md for license information. #> Function Remove-AtwsData { <# .SYNOPSIS This function updates one or more Autotask entities with new or modified properties. .DESCRIPTION This function updates one or more Autotask entities with new or modified properties .INPUTS Autotask.Entity[]. One or more Autotask entities to delete. .OUTPUTS Nothing. .EXAMPLE Remove-AtwsData -Entity $Entity Passes all Autotask entities in $Entity to the Autotask webservices API and deletes them. .NOTES NAME: Remove-AtwsData .LINK Get-AtwsData Set-AtwsData #> [cmdletbinding()] param ( [Parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [PSObject[]] $Entity ) begin { # Enable modern -Debug behavior if ($PSCmdlet.MyInvocation.BoundParameters['Debug'].IsPresent) { $DebugPreference = 'Continue' } Write-Verbose ('{0}: Start of Function' -F $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name) # Check if we are connected before trying anything if (-not($Script:Atws.integrationsValue)) { # Not connected. Try to connect, prompt for credentials if necessary Connect-AtwsWebAPI #Throw [ApplicationException] 'Not connected to Autotask WebAPI. Connect with Connect-AtwsWebAPI. For help use "get-help Connect-AtwsWebAPI".' } } process { Write-Verbose ('{0}: Deleting {1} [Autotask.{2}] object(s) with Id {3}' -F $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name, $Entity.Count, $Entity[0].GetType().Name, ($Entity.Id -join ',')) # delete() function can take up to 200 objects at a time for ($i = 0; $i -lt $Entity.count; $i += 200) { $j = $i + 199 if ($j -ge $Entity.count) { $j = $Entity.count - 1 } Write-Debug -Message ('{0}: Creating chunk from index {1} to index {2}' -F $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name, $i, $j) # Explicit selection of list type. ArrayList supports .remove() [Collections.ArrayList]$workingSet = $Entity[$i .. $j] # We are going to try multiple times if the first attempt fails Do { # Reset error list $errors = @() # We are deleting... $result = $atws.delete($Script:Atws.integrationsValue, $workingSet) # Do we have any errors? We get two lines pr error. Or so I did during testing. for ($t = 0; $t -lt $result.errors.Count; $t += 2) { # Count the errors, we have a limit $errorCount++ # First line is the error message $message = $result.errors[$t].Message if ($result.errors.Count -gt $t) { # Next line may include the element index, first element = 1 if ($result.errors[$t + 1].Message -match '\[(\d+)\]') { [int]$index = $Matches[1] } else { $index = 1 } } # Powershell arrays has first element = 0 $index-- # Get the element $element = $workingSet[$index] # Remove element from Workingset $errors += $element # Notify caller of skipped element Write-Warning ('Element with index {0} of type {1} with Id {2} was skipped because {3}' -F $Entity.IndexOf($element), $element.GetType().Name, $element.id, $message) } # .remove() any errors from the workingSet foreach ($element in $errors) { $workingSet.Remove($element) } # Keep on trying until there are no errors, the workingSet is empty (every element failed) # or the error limit has been reached } Until ($result.errors.Count -eq 0 -or $workingSet.Count -eq 0 -or $errorCount -ge $Script:Atws.Configuration.ErrorLimit) } } end { Write-Verbose ('{0}: End of function' -F $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name) } } |