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Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

By : Chris Dent
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Book Image

Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

5 (1)
By: Chris Dent

Overview of this book

PowerShell scripts offer a convenient way to automate various tasks, but working with them can be daunting. Mastering PowerShell Scripting takes away the fear and helps you navigate through PowerShell's capabilities.This extensively revised edition includes new chapters on debugging and troubleshooting and creating GUIs (online chapter). Learn the new features of PowerShell 7.1 by working with parameters, objects, and .NET classes from within PowerShell 7.1. This comprehensive guide starts with the basics before moving on to advanced topics, including asynchronous processing, desired state configuration, using more complex scripts and filters, debugging issues, and error-handling techniques. Explore how to efficiently manage substantial amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell 7.1. This book will help you to make the most of PowerShell's automation features, using different methods to parse data, manipulate regular expressions, and work with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Index

Working with REST

A REST-compliant web service allows a client to interact with the service using a set of predefined stateless operations. REST is not a protocol; it is an architectural style.

Whether or not an interface is truly REST-compliant is not particularly relevant when the goal is to use one in PowerShell. Interfaces must be used according to any documentation that has been published.

Invoke-RestMethod

The Invoke-RestMethod command can execute methods exposed by web services. The name of a method is part of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI); it is important not to confuse this with the Method parameter. The Method parameter is used to describe the HTTP method. By default, Invoke-RestMethod uses HTTP GET.

Simple requests

The REST API provided by GitHub may be used to list repositories made available by the PowerShell team.

The API entry point, the common URL all REST methods share, is https://api.github.com as documented in the GitHub reference...