A PowerShell file for local development against the VSTS API. This specifically works with a Git commit and filters out certain files. Replace the place holder values with what's appropriate for you.

LocalVstsDevelopment.ps1

# Place for local script to be developed

# Please note that all place holders are in all caps

$urlBase = "https://{YOUR_VSTS_ACCOUNT}.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/{PROJECT_NAME}/_apis/";

# You can leave the username blank
$username = "";
$password = "YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN";

# Need to Base 64 Encode the username password combination in the form that a "Basic Authorization" Http header expects
$base64authinfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $username, $password)));

# Value of the Authorization Http header to be sent with the request
$auth = "Basic {0}" -f $base64authinfo;

# Value of the accept header
$accept = "application/json";

# set the headers into one object
$headers = @{authorization=$auth;accept=$accept};

# Form the URL including the commit ID
$commitChangesUrl = $urlBase + "git/repositories/{NAME_OF_REPO}/commits/{COMMIT_HASH_ID}/changes?api-versio=1.0";

# Get the changes from the commit
$commitChanges = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $commitChangesUrl -Method Get -Headers $headers -ContentType "application/json";

# Filter the changes down to blob files and only .rdl file types
[string[]]$rdlFilePaths = $commitChanges.changes `
	| Where-Object {$_.item.gitObjectType -eq "blob" -and $_.item.path.EndsWith(".rdl") -and ($_.changeType -eq "edit" -or $_.changeType -eq "add" -or $_.changeType -eq "edit, rename")} `
	| Select-Object item `
	| ForEach-Object {$_.item.path};

# Uncomment the lines below to see different outputs to the console

#$jsonOutput = $rdlFilePaths | ConvertTo-Json
#$jsonOutput
#Write-Host "rdlFilePaths are: " $rdlFilePaths;

for($i=0; $i -lt $rdlFilePaths.Length; $i++){
	[string]$pathItem = [string]$rdlFilePaths[$i];
	Write-Host "Iteration $i || The pathItem is $pathItem";

	# Get the file name and replace all spaces with dashes to make it more path friendly
	[int]$fileIndex = $pathItem.LastIndexOf('/');
	[string]$fileName = $pathItem.Substring($fileIndex + 1);
	$fileName = $fileName.Replace(' ', '-').Trim();
	$pathInstance = "Test-Directory" + $pathItem.Replace("/", "\");
	Write-Host "Iteration $i || The Path Instance: $pathInstance";
	Write-Host "Iteration $i || The Destination file name is: $fileName";
}