Powershell Megathread: Verb-Noun Scripting is the future

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Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

Powershell is just wrong here. "content-type: application/json;charset=UTF-8" is a correct content-type header value.

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Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

On the second thought, wait a minute. A JSON needs to have the charset specified because JSON is an idiotic format. An XML specifies its own encoding via the declaration:

code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>

So, you don't have to set it in the header. Though, the client shouldn't yell, it should be fine, but yes it is a bit superfluous.

# ¿ May 10, 2018 18:04

Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

sloshmonger posted:

I guess you could say I'm not a... Method Man

That would be a "methodic" or a "methodist".
I'd go with the religious one.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2018 18:55

Volguus: Mar 3, 2009

Hammerite posted:

Being mistaken happens to the best of us.

Yes I think I would agree and generalise what you're saying as: it is useful to keep in mind the need to be aware whether you're testing for existence of files, directories, or both. One reason is to want to know whether a filesystem object is created and is specifically a directory, so (ignoring security for the moment) you would expect to be able to create things inside it. I'm more likely to be writing C# than Powershell code, and using Directory.Exists() or File.Exists(). But there too I might want to check both, to avoid leaving the silly edge case where I test whether a directory existed, and it didn't, but the program will still blow up when I try to create the directory because a file existed with that name.

The program can blow up when trying to create a file or directory for a ton of reasons, some of them related to security, some of them not (write to a file and the disk is full, for example).

You should always expect that to happen when doing I/O and take precautions ( at least a try/catch with some readable message).

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