PowerShell / PowerShell/PSResourceGet
`Update-PSModuleManifest` causes `PSAvoidTrailingWhitespace`
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Description
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Steps to reproduce
When updating the module manifest with items that do not fit on a single line, the Update-PSModuleManifest leaves a trailing whitespace behind the comma.
New-ModuleManifest -Path ModuleManifest.psd1
Update-PSModuleManifest -Path ModuleManifest.psd1 -FunctionsToExport @(
"Compress-PSResource",
"Find-PSResource",
"Get-InstalledPSResource",
"Get-PSResourceRepository",
"Get-PSScriptFileInfo",
"Import-PSGetRepository",
"Install-PSResource",
"New-PSScriptFileInfo",
"Publish-PSResource",
"Register-PSResourceRepository",
"Reset-PSResourceRepository",
"Save-PSResource",
"Set-PSResourceRepository",
"Test-PSScriptFileInfo",
"Uninstall-PSResource",
"Unregister-PSResourceRepository",
"Update-PSModuleManifest",
"Update-PSResource",
"Update-PSScriptFileInfo"
)
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer ModuleManifest.psd1 | Should -be NullOrEmpty
Expected behavior
No analyzer violations
Actual behavior
InvalidResult:
Line |
1 | Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer ModuleManifest.psd1 | Should -be NullOrEmpty
| Expected 'NullOrEmpty', but got @(Line has trailing whitespace, Line has trailing whitespace, Line has
| trailing whitespace, Line has trailing whitespace, Line has trailing whitespace, Line has trailing
| whitespace, Line has trailing whitespace, Line has trailing whitespace).
Error details
Environment data
ModuleType Version PreRelease Name ExportedCommands
---------- ------- ---------- ---- ----------------
Binary 1.2.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet {Compress-PSResource, Find-PSResource, Get-In…
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 7.6.4
PSEdition Core
GitCommitId 7.6.4
OS Microsoft Windows 10.0.26100
Platform Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.4
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion 3.0
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