> It should return all of the child objects. You can return more than one
> type of object.
In a custom cmdlet, how would I receive/process/detect the different types
of objects received via pipeline?
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Parallelspace / OpenCanal
"John Vottero" <JVottero@mvpsi.com> wrote in message
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> "Michael Herman (Parallelspace/OpenCanal)"
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>> Context
>>
>> Think of a SharePoint site and the URL that names it. e.g.
>> http://server/site1/site1_1/site_1_1_1
>>
>> site_1_1_1 is a SharePoint site that can have 2 kinds of child objects:
>> subsites and lists/document libraries.
>>
>> Question
>>
>> 1. If I'm building a custom provider and a path can have 2 types of child
>> objects, what should get-childitem return?
>
> It should return all of the child objects. You can return more than one
> type of object. You will probably want to make sure that your
> Formats.ps1xml file specifies the same format for all of the objects
> returned because out-default only looks at the first object to determine
> how to format. If subsequent objects don't use that same format, they are
> displayed as a full object dump.
>