PSUseConsistentWhitespace - Ability to ignore if in a line with multiple pipes

[o-l-a-v]

Summary of the new feature

The various PSUseConsistentWhitespace rules have various issues that might never be solved:

• https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20UseConsistentWhitespace%20sort%3Acreated-desc

My biggest issue is that I don't want it to touch one liners or multiliners like this:

(
    (
        Invoke-RestMethod -Method 'Get' -Uri 'https://api.github.com/repos/chocolatey/choco/releases'
    ) | Where-Object -Property 'prerelease' -NE $true
).'tag_name' | Sort-Object -Property @{'Expression' = {[System.Version]$_}} -Descending | Select-Object -First 1

Which becomes this:

(
    (
        Invoke-RestMethod -Method 'Get' -Uri 'https://api.github.com/repos/chocolatey/choco/releases'
    ) | Where-Object -Property 'prerelease' -NE $true
).'tag_name' | Sort-Object -Property @{'Expression' = { [System.Version]$_ } } -Descending | Select-Object -First 1

If I could tell PSScriptAnalyzer to ignore cases like that I'd be happy.

Current impact

This makes it so that I don't use the code formatting presets, and instead define all the rules manually and disable most of the PSUseConsistentWhitespace rules.

Side note: Would be great with the ability to override built-in presets, so you don't have to specify all the rules.

• 2017-03-07 "Add ability to inherit settings": Add ability to inherit settings #791
• 2024-12-01 "Code formatting preset - Add ability to override settings set by preset": Code formatting preset - Add ability to override settings set by preset vscode-powershell#5109

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Don't know. Some ideas:

• Ability to ignore if more than one pipe `| is found on the same line?

What is the latest version of PSScriptAnalyzer at the point of writing

v1.24.0

[liamjpeters]

Is the issue the spacing after and before the opening/closing curly braces in @{'Expression' = { [System.Version]$_ } }? It's difficult to visually diff.

   (
      (
          Invoke-RestMethod -Method 'Get' -Uri 'https://api.github.com/repos/chocolatey/choco/releases'
      ) | Where-Object -Property 'prerelease' -NE $true
-  ).'tag_name' | Sort-Object -Property @{'Expression' = {[System.Version]$_}} -Descending | Select-Object -First 1
+  ).'tag_name' | Sort-Object -Property @{'Expression' = { [System.Version]$_ } } -Descending | Select-Object -First 1

If so, is it the fact that it's in a large pipeline, or that it's an expression all on a single line.

So a setting that possibly ignores making these whitespace changes if the opening and matching closing brace are on the same line?

[o-l-a-v]

Yes.

When multiple pipes in one line you want it as compact as possible. Is my thought at least.

So I'd like no whitespaces at all. So, ignore all PSUseConsistentWhitespace rules.