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AvoidGlobalVars should only trigger on assignment

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the PS AvoidGlobalVars rule and reproduce the PowerShell class example from the issue on PowerShell 7.6-preview4. The fix is done when reading $global:PSEdition produces no warning while assigning a variable to the global scope still triggers the rule.

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Description

PowerShell classes requires variables to be initialized in a method before reference. This causes issues with global variables without scoping as the parser will throw a Variable is not assigned in the method error. To get around this the variable must be scoped but this causes PSScriptAnalyzer to throw a violation. The rule should only trigger when assigning a variable to the global scope not reading.

Steps to reproduce

class Test {
  [void] Abc() {
    if ($global:PSEdition -eq 'core') { write-host core }
  }
}

Expected behavior

No warnings

Actual behavior

RuleName                            Severity     ScriptName Line  Message
--------                            --------     ---------- ----  -------
PSAvoidGlobalVars                   Warning                 3     Found global variable 'global:PSEdition'.

If an unexpected error was thrown then please report the full error details using e.g. $error[0] | Select-Object *

Environment data

7.6-preview4

1.24.0
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