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PSUseConsistentIndentation not respected for pipeline chain operators.

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the example with Invoke-Formatter and the PSUseConsistentIndentation settings shown in the issue, comparing regular pipeline operators with pipeline chain operators. Trace the formatter path that handles natural line continuation and confirm that the output matches the expected four-space indentation for the chained commands.

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Description

When using natural line continuation with IncreaseIndentationForFirstPipeline (or IncreaseIndentationAfterEveryPipeline) enabled and pipeline chain operators, it does not format as expected like with regular pipeline operators.

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Steps to reproduce

$scriptDefinition = @'
Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
Get-Item "C:\someItem"
'@

$settings = @{
    IncludeRules = @("PSUseConsistentIndentation")
    Rules = @{
        PSUseConsistentIndentation = @{
            Enable              = $true
            IndentationSize     = 4
            PipelineIndentation = 'IncreaseIndentationForFirstPipeline'
            Kind                = 'space'
        }
    }
}

Invoke-Formatter -ScriptDefinition $scriptDefinition -Settings $settings
Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
Get-Item "C:\someItem"

Expected behavior

$scriptDefinition = @'
Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
Get-Item "C:\someItem"
'@

$settings = @{
    IncludeRules = @("PSUseConsistentIndentation")
    Rules = @{
        PSUseConsistentIndentation = @{
            Enable              = $true
            IndentationSize     = 4
            PipelineIndentation = 'IncreaseIndentationForFirstPipeline'
            Kind                = 'space'
        }
    }
}

Invoke-Formatter -ScriptDefinition $scriptDefinition -Settings $settings
Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
    Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
    Get-Item "C:\someItem"

Actual behavior

$scriptDefinition = @'
Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
Get-Item "C:\someItem"
'@

$settings = @{
    IncludeRules = @("PSUseConsistentIndentation")
    Rules = @{
        PSUseConsistentIndentation = @{
            Enable              = $true
            IndentationSize     = 4
            PipelineIndentation = 'IncreaseIndentationForFirstPipeline'
            Kind                = 'space'
        }
    }
}

Invoke-Formatter -ScriptDefinition $scriptDefinition -Settings $settings
Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
Get-Item "C:\someItem" &&
Get-Item "C:\someItem"

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                      7.4.11
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.4.11
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0
> (Get-Module -ListAvailable PSScriptAnalyzer).Version | ForEach-Object { $_.ToString() }
1.24.0
1.22.0
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