Improve Usability of PSScriptAnalyzer.psd1
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- tooling
Research direction
Start with PSScriptAnalyzer.psd1 and the AvoidUsingCmdletAliases documentation linked in the issue. Reproduce the failure by adding the Rules member and running Import-Module PSScriptAnalyzer. Done means the documented rule configuration can be used without the manifest-invalid-members error.
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Description
Summary of the new feature
According to the docs it's as simple as adding rules to the Rules HashMap in PSScriptAnalyzer.psd1:
PSScriptAnalyzer.psd1
@{
Rules = @{
'PSAvoidUsingCmdletAliases' = @{
'allowlist' = @('cd', 'cls', 'copy', 'cp'')
}
}
# Author of this module
Author = 'Microsoft Corporation'
...
Followed by running:
Import-Module PSScriptAnalyzer
However, in practice this does not work at all:
Import-Module: The '...\ms-vscode.powershell-2025.0.0\modules\PSScriptAnalyzer\1.23.0\PSScriptAnalyzer.psd1' module cannot be imported because its manifest contains one or more members that are not valid. The valid manifest members are ('ModuleToProcess', 'NestedModules', 'GUID', 'Author', 'CompanyName', 'Copyright', 'ModuleVersion', 'Description', 'PowerShellVersion', 'PowerShellHostName', 'PowerShellHostVersion', 'CLRVersion', 'DotNetFrameworkVersion', 'ProcessorArchitecture', 'RequiredModules', 'TypesToProcess', 'FormatsToProcess', 'ScriptsToProcess', 'PrivateData', 'RequiredAssemblies', 'ModuleList', 'FileList', 'FunctionsToExport', 'VariablesToExport', 'AliasesToExport', 'CmdletsToExport', 'DscResourcesToExport', 'CompatiblePSEditions', 'HelpInfoURI', 'RootModule', 'DefaultCommandPrefix').
Remove the members that are not valid ('Rules'), then try to import the module again.
I am sure this is just a beginners mistake and CAN work but it SHOULD JUST work.
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What is the latest version of PSScriptAnalyzer at the point of writing
1.24.0
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