PowerShell URI template parsing

Question

I'm looking to use the Octopus REST API and I wanted to take full advantage of the HATEOAS links that are provided in Octopus REST API and some of them use URI Templates.

I found a fairly old post on the Octopus forums here but I was wondering with over 4 years passing, if there's a better solution for Uri Template parsing in PowerShell.

If not, I can use a .NET Uri Templating parsing package listed in the forum post.

Answer 1

So I was unable to find any native solutions, but I will share an example that implements Resta.UriTemplates.

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# Example adapted from: https://github.com/a7b0/uri-templates#examples

Install-Package Resta.UriTemplates -Version 1.3.0

# Import the Resta.UriTemplates assembly
$Path = '.\Resta.UriTemplates.1.3.0\lib\netstandard2.0\Resta.UriTemplates.dll'
Add-Type -Path $Path -PassThru | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Assembly | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName -Unique
# Returns: 
# Resta.UriTemplates, Version=1.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null

$template = [Resta.UriTemplates.UriTemplate]'http://example.org/{area}/news{?type,count}'

Write-Output $template
# Returns:
# Template                                    Variables
# --------                                    ---------
# http://example.org/{area}/news{?type,count} {area, type, count}

$dict = New-Object 'system.collections.generic.dictionary[string,object]'
$dict["area"] = "world"
$dict["type"] = "actual"
$dict["count"] = "10"

$template.Resolve($dict)
# Returns: 
# http://example.org/world/news?type=actual&count=10