Demos of the PowerShell information stream

Demo-InformationFunctions.ps1

#requires -version 5.0


Function Test-Me {
[cmdletbinding()]
Param()

Write-Information "Starting $($MyInvocation.MyCommand) " -Tags Process
Write-Information "PSVersion = $($PSVersionTable.PSVersion)" -Tags Meta
Write-Information "OS = $((Get-CimInstance Win32_operatingsystem).Caption)" -Tags Meta

Write-Verbose "Getting top 5 processes by WorkingSet"
Get-process | sort WS -Descending | select -first 5 -OutVariable s

Write-Information ($s[0] | Out-String) -Tags Data

Write-Information "Ending $($MyInvocation.MyCommand) " -Tags Process

}

Function Test-Me2 {
[cmdletbinding()]
Param()

Write-Host "Starting $($MyInvocation.MyCommand) " -fore green
Write-Host "PSVersion = $($PSVersionTable.PSVersion)" -fore green
Write-Host "OS = $((Get-CimInstance Win32_operatingsystem).Caption)" -fore green

Write-Verbose "Getting top 5 processes by WorkingSet"
Get-process | sort WS -Descending | select -first 5 -OutVariable s

Write-Host ($s[0] | Out-String) -fore green

Write-Host "Ending $($MyInvocation.MyCommand) " -fore green

}

Function Test-Me3 {
[cmdletbinding()]
Param()

if ($PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey("InformationVariable")) { 
 $Info = $True 
 $infVar = $PSBoundParameters["InformationVariable"]
}

if ($info) {
 Write-Host "Starting $($MyInvocation.MyCommand) " -fore green

 (Get-Variable $infVar).value[-1].Tags.Add("Process")
 Write-Host "PSVersion = $($PSVersionTable.PSVersion)" -fore green
 (Get-Variable $infVar).value[-1].Tags.Add("Meta")
 Write-Host "OS = $((Get-CimInstance Win32_operatingsystem).Caption)" -fore green
 (Get-Variable $infVar).value[-1].Tags.Add("Meta")
}
Write-Verbose "Getting top 5 processes by WorkingSet"
Get-process | sort WS -Descending | select -first 5 -OutVariable s

if ($info) {
 Write-Host ($s[0] | Out-String) -fore green
 (Get-Variable $infVar).value[-1].Tags.Add("Data")
 Write-Host "Ending $($MyInvocation.MyCommand) " -fore green
 (Get-Variable $infVar).value[-1].Tags.Add("Process")
}
}