Vista - implementing get-item

hi...

is possible to implement a provider that support operations like this?

get-item mydrive:books['name']\author

I am trying to implement it overriding methods like GetItem,
GetItemDynamicParameters or GetPropertyDynamicParameters but the execution
always return this error

Get-Item : Cannot retrieve the dynamic parameters for the cmdlet. Provider
execution stopped because the provider does not support this operation.

any suggestion?

mario wrote:Any luck? I haven't abandoned you, just haven't had the time to look
into it.

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hi marco..

apparently powershell doens't like xpath expressions .... so, I had to
change the way referencing th items that I want to get...

currently I am building a psdrive for bts but is a lot of work ... there are
many ways and many things to implement :P

regards.!

"Marco Shaw [MVP]" <marco.shaw@_NO_SPAM_gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Feb 7, 12:37*am, "mario" <carlos1...@xxxxxx> wrote:On Mar 11, 2:53 pm, "mario" <carlos1...@xxxxxx> wrote:Hi Mario,

We have several XML related cmdlets in Pscx ( www.codeplex.com/pscx ),
one or two of which take XPath expressions. I think it's Select-Xml.
Since it's a cmdlet, we're not succeptible to the path munging you're
seeing in your provider.

On the other hand, have you investigated using provider-direct paths?
if you prefix a pspath with \\ it will not be pre-parsed by powershell
and you *may* be able to work with relatively clean looking xpath
paths. Give it a whirl, and if you get it working, feel free to donate
it to Pscx ;-)

The problem you're seeing is because you have left in the default
implementation for GetItemDynamicProperties(string) which is probably
a "throw new NotImplementedException()" statement. Just replace that
statement with "return null;"

Hope this helps,

- Oisin
- Oisin

hi oisin...

thanks by your response, I'll test it

regards.!

"Oisin (x0n) Grehan [MVP]" <oising@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 7, 12:37 am, "mario" <carlos1...@xxxxxx> wrote:On Mar 11, 2:53 pm, "mario" <carlos1...@xxxxxx> wrote:Hi Mario,

We have several XML related cmdlets in Pscx ( www.codeplex.com/pscx ),
one or two of which take XPath expressions. I think it's Select-Xml.
Since it's a cmdlet, we're not succeptible to the path munging you're
seeing in your provider.

On the other hand, have you investigated using provider-direct paths?
if you prefix a pspath with \\ it will not be pre-parsed by powershell
and you *may* be able to work with relatively clean looking xpath
paths. Give it a whirl, and if you get it working, feel free to donate
it to Pscx ;-)

The problem you're seeing is because you have left in the default
implementation for GetItemDynamicProperties(string) which is probably
a "throw new NotImplementedException()" statement. Just replace that
statement with "return null;"

Hope this helps,

- Oisin
- Oisin

On Mar 14, 12:53*pm, "mario" <carlos1...@xxxxxx> wrote:np, btw that should read http://www.codeplex.com/powershellcx ( not
pscx! sorry)

- Oisin