PowerShell / PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices
Ensure errors in unawaited Tasks are caught with ContinueWith
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Area-Logging
Issue-Enhancement
- Dominant language
- C#
- Stars
- 767
- Forks
- 266
- Avg merge
- 3d 16h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
Description
Right now there are a bunch of tasks we fire off in PSES that are never awaited, meaning any errors thrown by those tasks are never handled or even logged. We need to add continuation handlers to those tasks to ensure we know about all failures occurring in PSES.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names PSES but does not identify files, tests, or task entry points. Start by locating the unawaited tasks in PowerShell Editor Services and review how their failures are currently handled. Done means those tasks have ContinueWith handlers so failures are handled or logged.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp, powershell
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100