PS Adapter implementedAs property

[ThomasNieto]

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Summary

The implementedAs property for PS Adapter types is set to a value of 1 which doesn't indicate what it means. The property seems to be an enum, maybe it is not being serialized properly.

Running steps to reproduce on the other built-in command based resources don't have a value set for implementedAs.

DSC/dsc_lib/src/dscresources/dscresource.rs

Lines 71 to 75 in ea2d0f3

	pub enum ImplementedAs {
	/// A command line executable
	Command,
	/// A custom resource
	Custom(String),

Steps to reproduce

dsc resource list --adapter Microsoft.DSC/PowerShell |
ConvertFrom-Json |
Select-Object -Property type, implementedAs

Expected behavior

Descriptive value

Actual behavior

Numeric value `1` which does not indicate what its supposed to mean

Error details

Environment data

7.6-preview4

Version

3.1-preview5

Visuals

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[Gijsreyn]

Hi @ThomasNieto, I know where this is coming from, and it is mainly internal. I'm not sure if it needs to be documented, but the code responsible for it is the following:

# psDscAdapter.psm1
enum dscResourceType {
    ScriptBased
    ClassBased
    Binary
    Composite
}

The 1 in this case means ClassBased and so forth.

Then, in the switch statement to determine what type needs to run, you can see this:

Hope that sheds some light on it :)

@michaeltlombardi , do you think this needs to be documented?

[ThomasNieto]

It looks like that enum is used by DSC in various places to enable/disable features if it doesn't have the command type.