iisresetme/legislator

Legislator is a simple .NET interface authoring tool written in PowerShell

legislator's Issues

Add support for PowerShell >=6

Since [AppDomain] is no longer the entry point for emitting new assemblies at runtime, Legislator's interface command fails on PowerShell Core and PowerShell 7:

PS ~> interface IThing {}
interface: Method invocation failed because [System.AppDomain] does not contain a method named 'DefineDynamicAssembly'.

The reflection APIs have been split into smaller packages in .NET Core, but since S.M.A already depend on System.Reflection.Emit, and the API surface remains largely unchanged, porting to PowerShell >6 should be trivial

Error handling bug: unresolved return type throws unhelpful "Cannot find an overload for "new" and the argument count: "2""

Failure to create interface types due to unresolved return type names currently result in the following unhelpful error message:

PS C:\> interface IPoint {
>>   property int X
>>   property ing Y # classic typo
>> }
property:
Line |
   4 |    property ing Y
     |    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | Cannot find an overload for "new" and the argument count: "2".

This is obviously not helpful, expected error should indicate the actual problem:

InvalidOperation:
Line |
   4 |    property ing Y
     |             ~~~
     | Unable to find type [ing].

Add support for inheritance

Interfaces in .NET are extensible, Legislator should support inheriting other interfaces, like:

interface IBase {
  method void BaseMethod @([int])
}

interface IAuxiliary {
  method void AuxiliaryMethod @([string])
}

interface IFinal {
  method void AdditionalMethod @()
} -Implements IBase,IAuxiliary

Error handling bug: inappropriate closing of incomplete interface types

Lack of explicit error handling in interface appears to allow for incomplete type emission:

interface IIncomplete {
  property string Name
  property nonExistingType Thing
}

Resulting in creation of IIncomplete, but without nonExistingType member:

PS ~> [IIncomplete].DeclaredMembers.Name
Name

Add support for events

The CLI interface specification allows for the declaration of events in interfaces.

Legislator currently only supports properties and methods.

Add support for declaring events as part of an interface as well.