psake 4.2.0 error using command line properties argument

[Mike Duran]

What am I doing wrong?  I can't seem to get the -properties argument to work.  I get the error below.

psake 4.2.0

<code>

properties {

$environment = "trunk"

}

task default -depends init

task init{

write-host $environment

}

</code>

PS C:\temp> psake .\testbuild.ps1 default -properties @{"environment"="trunk"}

C:\Chocolatey\lib\psake.4.2.0.1\tools\psake.ps1 : Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'properties'. Can

not convert the "System.Collections.Hashtable" value of type "System.String" to type "System.Collections.Hashtable".

At line:1 char:89

+ & 'C:\Chocolatey\lib\psake.4.2.0.1\tools\\psake.ps1' .\testbuild.ps1 default -properties <<<<  System.Collections.Has

htable; if ($psake.build_success -eq $false) { exit 1 } else { exit 0 }

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [psake.ps1], ParameterBindin...mationException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentTransformationError,psake.ps1

[Valera Kolupaev]

Hi Mike, 

I had the same problem, as you.

It seems that the root of the problem, is that psake is installed using chocolatey installs "psake.bat" shell tool. So the parameters are converted to windows shell string first, and then converted back. 

The solution I have found, is to import psake module directly into powershell and use Invoke-Psake, instead of psake.bat.

PS C:\dev\XXX\apiserver\scripts> Import-Module C:\Chocolatey\lib\psake.4.3.1.0\tools\psake
PS C:\dev\XXX\apiserver\scripts> invoke-psake upload_api -properties $prop

[Mike Duran]

Thanks.  I have stopped using the psake.bat file ...and now just use the invoke-psake like you suggest..