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Formatter doesn't indent bracketed multi-line arguments correctly
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Description
Bracketed Commandlet arguments spanning multiple lines should increase the indentation level. See Invoke-Bar in the below example.
Expected behavior
Invoke-Foo `
-Argument (
Invoke-Bar -Argument
) `
-Argument2
Actual behavior
Invoke-Foo `
-Argument (
Invoke-Bar -Argument
) `
-Argument2
If an unexpected error was thrown then please report the full error details using e.g. $error[0] | Select-Object *
Environment data
> $PSVersionTable
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 5.1.19041.1237
PSEdition Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion 10.0.19041.1237
CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
> (Get-Module -ListAvailable PSScriptAnalyzer).Version | ForEach-Object { $_.ToString() }
1.19.1
1.20.0
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Research direction
Reproduce the formatter output with the Invoke-Foo and Invoke-Bar example in the issue using PSScriptAnalyzer. Trace the formatter handling of bracketed, multi-line command arguments and inspect existing formatter tests. Done means the nested Invoke-Bar argument is indented as shown in the expected output and the regression is covered by a test.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100