PowerShell Custom Objects

[ebgreen]

So I am familiar with making custom objects via:

$foo = "" | Select-Object Prop1,Prop2

This would of course create a System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject
object with 2 NoteProperties (Prop1 and Prop2). My questions are:

Is it possible to add methods to the object?
Is it possible to override the ToString() method for the object?

[Shay Levi]

To add a method:

PS > $foo = "" | Select-Object Prop1,Prop2
PS > $foo | Add-Member -pass scriptmethod newMethod {$this.prop1 + $this.prop2}
| out-null
PS > $foo.prop1=1
PS > $foo.prop2=1
PS > $foo.newMethod()
2

To override the default ToString() method add the -force parameter:

PS > $foo | Add-Member -pass scriptmethod -force ToString {"Overriding the
default ToString() method"} | out-null
PS > $foo.ToString()
Overriding the default ToString() method

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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

[ebgreen]

Thank you very much.

[Shay Levi]

You can also use this syntax:

PS 12> $foo = "" | Select-Object Prop1,Prop2
PS 13> $newMethod = new-object system.Management.Automation.PSScriptMethod
newMethod,{$this.prop1+$this.prop2}
PS 14> $foo.psobject.members.add($newMethod)
PS 15> $foo.prop1=1
PS 16> $foo.prop2=1
PS 17> $foo.newMethod()
2

PS 18> $ToString= new-object system.Management.Automation.PSScriptMethod
ToString,{"bla bla bla"}
PS 19> $foo.psobject.members.add($ToString)
PS 20> $foo.ToString()
bla bla bla

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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

> To add a method:

>
PS>> $foo = "" | Select-Object Prop1,Prop2
PS>> $foo | Add-Member -pass scriptmethod newMethod {$this.prop1 +

PS>> $this.prop2}

> | out-null
>
PS>> $foo.prop1=1
PS>> $foo.prop2=1
PS>> $foo.newMethod()
> 2
>
> To override the default ToString() method add the -force parameter:
>
PS>> $foo | Add-Member -pass scriptmethod -force ToString {"Overriding

PS>> the
PS>>

> default ToString() method"} | out-null
>
PS>> $foo.ToString()

PS>>