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Autoformat option to automatically wrap object properties in single quotes

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

No file or test entry point is named; start by locating PSScriptAnalyzer's formatter implementation and existing autoformat rules. Use the issue's before/after examples to identify the expected behavior, and verify that property accesses gain single quotes while method calls remain unchanged.

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Description

Summary of the new feature

I prefer to have all $Object.'properties' wrapped in single quotes.

  • Makes it easy to see whats a property and whats a method.
  • Uniformity for all properties: Properties with characters like whitespace must be wrapped in single or double quotes.

Today I do this manually. Would be awesome with an autoformat rule that wraps properties into string single quotes.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Before autoformat:

$Object.property
$Object.method()

After autoformat:

$Object.'property'
$Object.method()

What is the latest version of PSScriptAnalyzer at the point of writing

v1.24.0

Dominant language
C#
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