Fix Casting To Custom

Handle the casting of object to custom classes internally

Merge pull request #89 from lipkau/fix/#88-FixCastingToCustom

Author: lipkau

ConfluencePS/Private/ConvertTo-Hashtable.ps1

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+function ConvertTo-HashTable {
+    <#
+    .SYNOPSIS
+    Converts a PSCustomObject to Hashtable
+
+    .DESCRIPTION
+    PowerShell v4 on Windows 8.1 seems to have trouble casting [PSCustomObject] to custom classes.
+    This function is a workaround, as casting from [Hashtable] is no problem.
+    #>
+    param(
+        # Object to convert
+        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
+        [PSCustomObject]$InputObject
+    )
+
+    begin {
+        $hash = @{}
+        $InputObject.PSObject.properties | Foreach-Object {
+            $hash[$_.Name] = $_.Value
+        }
+        Write-Output $hash
+    }
+}

ConfluencePS/Private/ConvertTo-Icon.ps1

@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ function ConvertTo-Icon {
     Process {
         foreach ($object in $InputObject) {
             Write-Verbose "[$($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name)] Converting Object to Icon"
-            ($object | Select-Object `
+            [ConfluencePS.Icon](ConvertTo-Hashtable -InputObject ($object | Select-Object `
                 Path,
                 Width,
                 Height,
                 IsDefault
-            ) -as [ConfluencePS.Icon]
+            ))
         }
     }
 }

ConfluencePS/Private/ConvertTo-Label.ps1

@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ function ConvertTo-Label {
     Process {
         foreach ($object in $InputObject) {
             Write-Verbose "[$($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name)] Converting Object to Label"
-            ($object | Select-Object `
+            [ConfluencePS.Label](ConvertTo-Hashtable -InputObject ($object | Select-Object `
                 id,
                 name,
                 prefix
-            ) -as [ConfluencePS.Label]
+            ))
         }
     }
 }

ConfluencePS/Private/ConvertTo-Page.ps1

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ function ConvertTo-Page {
     Process {
         foreach ($object in $InputObject) {
             Write-Verbose "[$($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name)] Converting Object to Page"
-            ($object | Select-Object `
+            [ConfluencePS.Page](ConvertTo-Hashtable -InputObject ($object | Select-Object `
                 id,
                 status,
                 title,
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ function ConvertTo-Page {
                         else {$null}
                     }
                 }
-            ) -as [ConfluencePS.Page]
+            ))
         }
     }
 }

ConfluencePS/Private/ConvertTo-PageAncestor.ps1

@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ function ConvertTo-PageAncestor {
     Process {
         foreach ($object in $InputObject) {
             Write-Verbose "[$($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name)] Converting Object to Page (Ancestor)"
-            ($object | Select-Object `
+            [ConfluencePS.Page](ConvertTo-Hashtable -InputObject ($object | Select-Object `
                 id,
                 status,
                 title
-            ) -as [ConfluencePS.Page]
+            ))
         }
     }
 }

ConfluencePS/Private/ConvertTo-Space.ps1

@@ -15,19 +15,25 @@ function ConvertTo-Space {
     Process {
         foreach ($object in $InputObject) {
             Write-Verbose "[$($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name)] Converting Object to Space"
-            ($object | Select-Object `
+            [ConfluencePS.Space](ConvertTo-Hashtable -InputObject ($object | Select-Object `
                 id,
                 key,
                 name,
                 @{Name = "description"; Expression = {$_.description.plain.value}},
-                icon,
+                @{Name = "Icon"; Expression = {
+                        if ($_.icon) {
+                            ConvertTo-Icon $_.icon
+                        }
+                        else {$null}
+                    }
+                },
                 type,
                 @{Name = "Homepage"; Expression = {
                     if ($_.homepage -is [PSCustomObject]) {
                             ConvertTo-Page $_.homepage
                     } else {$null} # homepage might be a string
                 }}
-            ) -as [ConfluencePS.Space]
+            ))
         }
     }
 }

ConfluencePS/Private/ConvertTo-User.ps1

@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ function ConvertTo-User {
     Process {
         foreach ($object in $InputObject) {
             Write-Verbose "[$($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name)] Converting Object to User"
-            ($object | Select-Object `
+            [ConfluencePS.User](ConvertTo-Hashtable -InputObject ($object | Select-Object `
                 username,
                 userKey,
                 @{Name = "profilePicture"; Expression = { ConvertTo-Icon $_.profilePicture }},
                 displayname
-            ) -as [ConfluencePS.User]
+            ))
         }
     }
 }

ConfluencePS/Private/ConvertTo-Version.ps1

@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ function ConvertTo-Version {
     Process {
         foreach ($object in $InputObject) {
             Write-Verbose "[$($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name)] Converting Object to Version"
-            ($object | Select-Object `
+            [ConfluencePS.Version](ConvertTo-Hashtable -InputObject ($object | Select-Object `
                 @{Name = "by"; Expression = { ConvertTo-User $_.by }},
                 when,
                 friendlyWhen,
                 number,
                 message,
                 minoredit
-            ) -as [ConfluencePS.Version]
+            ))
         }
     }
 }