public/connection/New-ConfluenceConnection.ps1
function New-ConfluenceConnection { [CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName="PlainText")] param ( # The Jira username of the user performing actions [Parameter(Mandatory,Position=0,ParameterSetName="PlainText")] [string] $UserName, # The Jira password (or API Token) of the user performing actions [Parameter(Mandatory,Position=1,ParameterSetName="PlainText")] [string] $Password, # The hostname of the Jira instance to interact with (e.g. https://yourjirasite.atlassian.net/) [Parameter(Mandatory,Position=2)] [string] $HostName ) # create the unencoded string $credentialsText = "$UserName`:$Password" # encode the string in base64 $credentialsBytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($credentialsText) $encodedCredentials = [Convert]::ToBase64String($credentialsBytes) # format the host name $formattedHost = (&{If($HostName.EndsWith("/")) {$HostName.Substring(0,$HostName.Length-1)} else {$HostName}}) @{ AuthHeader = @{Authorization="Basic $encodedCredentials"} HostName = $formattedHost } } |