internal/functions/Select-DefaultView.ps1
function Select-DefaultView { <# This command enables us to send full on objects to the pipeline without the user seeing it See it in action in Get-DbaDbSnapshot and Remove-DbaDbSnapshot a lot of this is from boe, thanks boe! https://learn-powershell.net/2013/08/03/quick-hits-set-the-default-property-display-in-powershell-on-custom-objects/ TypeName creates a new type so that we can use ps1xml to modify the output #> [CmdletBinding()] param ( [parameter(ValueFromPipeline = $true)] [object] $InputObject, [string[]] $Property, [string[]] $ExcludeProperty, [string] $TypeName ) process { if ($null -eq $InputObject) { return } if ($TypeName) { $InputObject.PSObject.TypeNames.Insert(0, "dbatools.$TypeName") } if ($ExcludeProperty) { if ($InputObject.GetType().Name.ToString() -eq 'DataRow') { $ExcludeProperty += 'Item', 'RowError', 'RowState', 'Table', 'ItemArray', 'HasErrors' } $props = ($InputObject | Get-Member | Where-Object MemberType -in 'Property', 'NoteProperty', 'AliasProperty' | Where-Object { $_.Name -notin $ExcludeProperty }).Name $defaultset = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSPropertySet('DefaultDisplayPropertySet', [string[]]$props) } else { # property needs to be string if ("$property" -like "* as *") { $newproperty = @() foreach ($p in $property) { if ($p -like "* as *") { $old, $new = $p -isplit " as " # Do not be tempted to not pipe here $inputobject | Add-Member -Force -MemberType AliasProperty -Name $new -Value $old -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $newproperty += $new } else { $newproperty += $p } } $property = $newproperty } $defaultset = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSPropertySet('DefaultDisplayPropertySet', [string[]]$Property) } $standardmembers = [System.Management.Automation.PSMemberInfo[]]@($defaultset) # Do not be tempted to not pipe here $inputobject | Add-Member -Force -MemberType MemberSet -Name PSStandardMembers -Value $standardmembers -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $inputobject } } |