[Find-PSResource]Using wildcard with Repository parameter causes error 'ErrorFilteringNamesForUnsupportedWildcards'

[LaurentDardenne]

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Steps to reproduce

The documentation for Find-PSResource indicates that the Repository parameter accepts wildcards, its use causes an error.

Find-PSResource -Name 'invokebuild'  -Prerelease -Repository '[PS*]'

But the error message quotes the parameter Name :

Find-PSResource : -Name with wildcards '?' and '[' are not supported for this cmdlet so Name entry: [PS*] will be
discarded.

Expected behavior

List all module matching.

Actual behavior

Error 'ErrorFilteringNamesForUnsupportedWildcards'.

Error details

$error[0]|select *


writeErrorStream      : True
PSMessageDetails      :
Exception             : System.Management.Automation.PSInvalidOperationException: -Name with wildcards '?' and '[' are
                        not supported for this cmdlet so Name entry: [PS*] will be discarded.
TargetObject          : Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet.Cmdlets.FindHelper
CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument : (Microsoft.Power...lets.FindHelper:FindHelper) [Find-PSResource],
                        PSInvalidOperationException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : ErrorFilteringNamesForUnsupportedWildcards,Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet.Cmdlets.FindPSRes
                        ource
ErrorDetails          :
InvocationInfo        : System.Management.Automation.InvocationInfo
ScriptStackTrace      : à <ScriptBlock>, <Aucun fichier> : ligne 1
PipelineIterationInfo : {0, 1}

Environment data

#Obsolete comment :"Paste verbatim output from Get-Module PSResourceGet; $PSVersionTable below."


Get-Module Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet

ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ----                                ----------------
Binary     0.5.22     Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet  {Find-PSResource, Get-InstalledPSResource, Get-PSResourceR...


$PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.19041.3031
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1.19041.3031}
BuildVersion                   10.0.19041.3031
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

Visuals

[SydneyhSmith]

closing in favor of MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs-PSGet#58

[sdwheeler]

@SydneyhSmith This needs to be reopened. There is a code bug and a docs issue.

The code bug is that the code is returning an incorrect error message. The error is about using wildcards in the repository name, but the error message is "-Name with wildcards '?' and '[' are not supported for this cmdlet so Name entry: [PS*] will be discarded."

The error message is coming from ProcessWildcardNames at:

PSResourceGet/src/code/Utils.cs

Line 177 in 2be8ccb

errorMsgsList.Add(String.Format("-Name with wildcards '?' and '[' are not supported for this cmdlet so Name entry: {0} will be discarded.", name));

Which is bing called from:

PSResourceGet/src/code/FindHelper.cs

Lines 90 to 98 in 2be8ccb

	repository = Utils.ProcessNameWildcards(repository, removeWildcardEntries:false, out string[] errorMsgs, out _repositoryNameContainsWildcard);
	foreach (string error in errorMsgs)
	{
	_cmdletPassedIn.WriteError(new ErrorRecord(
	new PSInvalidOperationException(error),
	"ErrorFilteringNamesForUnsupportedWildcards",
	ErrorCategory.InvalidArgument,
	this));
	}

[sdwheeler]

@SydneyhSmith why don't we allow [ and ? wildcards in repository search? I get that NuGet doesn't support those wildcards, but I believe that v2 allowed it for repositories. The repositories are registered locally and should be wildcard selectable using standard wildcard patterns, similar to:

PS> Get-PSResourceRepository | where Name -like '*[sl]*'

Name      Uri                                      Trusted Priority
----      ---                                      ------- --------
PSGallery https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2 True    50
local     file:///E:/LocalGallery                  True    100

[LaurentDardenne]

The presence of the hyphen at the beginning of the error message is confusing.

Format("Name with wildcards '?' and '['

instead

Format("-Name with wildcards '?' and '['