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ComObject Member-access enumeration #19854
Description
Summary of the new feature / enhancement
Coming from Stackoverflow question: Extract text from html with powershell
And probably ties into #4553 (which I simply don't fully understand)
Just like Member-Access Enumeration for native .Net and PowerShell objects, I would expect to be able to enumerate ComObject members (System.MarshalByRefObject?) in a similar way:
$String = '<div>Some text</div>'
$Unicode = [System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes($String)
$Html = New-Object -Com 'HTMLFile'
$Html.write($Unicode)
$Html.getElementsByTagName('div').innerTextExpected
Some TextActual
No output
Workarrounds
@($Html.getElementsByTagName('div')).innerText
$Html.getElementsByTagName('div') |% { $_.innerText }
Activity
iRon7 commentedon Jul 18, 2023
I think this issue slipped through.
Can it be assigned, relabeled, answered (or even rejected/resolved/"Won't fix" if not valid)?
iSazonov commentedon Jul 18, 2023
/cc Patrick Meinecke (@SeeminglyScience)
SeeminglyScience commentedon Jul 18, 2023
It's a bug for sure. I'd like to fix it, but the COM binder is by far the most complicated of the binders (and is mostly lifted directly from the BCL) and the binders are already pretty complicated.
No promises but I'm building some tools in spare time that make it easier examine COM objects and what they implement. Don't hold your breath for a fix, but I also don't want to mark it
wontfix.iRon7 commentedon Jan 15, 2024
This bug still exists
iRon7 commentedon Jul 15, 2024
Getting a little bit tired of fighting the microsoft-github-policy-service bot 😫.
Anyways, this issue still exists in: