`Install-PSResource -RequiredResourceFile` ignores the `prerelease` key if set to `$true` in a `psd1` file

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Steps to reproduce

1. Create a test.psd1 file as follows

@{
	'PrereleaseTest' = @{
        'repository' = 'PSGallery'
        prerelease = $True
        'Scope'      = 'CurrentUser'
    }
}

2. run Install-PSResource -RequiredResourceFile test.psd1

Consider that the current prerelease version of PrereleaseTest is 0.0.2-prerelease according to PSGallery.

Expected behavior

import-module prereleasetest; get-module prereleasetest
ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                ----------------
Manifest   0.0.2      prerelease           prereleasetest

Actual behavior

import-module prereleasetest; get-module prereleasetest
ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                ----------------
Manifest   0.0.1                 prereleasetest

Error details

When importing from a json file, though, the prerelease setting is correctly respected.

Environment data

ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                ----------------
Binary     1.1.0                 Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet  {Compress-PSResource, Find-PSResource, Get-Instal…


Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.6.0-preview.2
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.6.0-preview.2
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.26100
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Visuals

[o-l-a-v]

If you treat it like a string inside test.psd1, like so:

@{
	'PrereleaseTest' = @{
        'repository' = 'PSGallery'
        'prerelease' = 'True'
        'Scope'      = 'CurrentUser'
    }
}

This is also shown as an example here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.psresourceget/install-psresource?view=powershellget-3.x#example-5

Then it works:

PS > $DebugPreference = 'Continue'; Install-PSResource -TrustRepository -RequiredResourceFile "C:\Users\olavb\Desktop\Temp\test.psd1" -WhatIf

DEBUG: In GetHelper::GetPackagesFromPath()
DEBUG: In GetHelper::FilterPkgPathsByName()
DEBUG: In GetHelper::FilterPkgPathsByVersion()
DEBUG: Searching through package path: 'C:\Users\olavb\Documents\PowerShell\Modules\Microsoft.PowerToys.Configure'
DEBUG: Searching through package path: 'C:\Users\olavb\Documents\PowerShell\Modules\Microsoft.PowerToys.Configure'
DEBUG: Searching through package version path: 'C:\Users\olavb\Documents\PowerShell\Modules\Microsoft.PowerToys.Configure\0.92.0.0'
DEBUG: In InstallPSResource::RequiredResourceHelper()
DEBUG: In InstallPSResource::ProcessInstallHelper()
DEBUG: In InstallHelper::BeginInstallPackages()
DEBUG: Parameters passed in >>> Name: 'PrereleaseTest'; VersionRange: ''; NuGetVersion: ''; VersionType: 'NoVersion'; Version: ''; Prerelease: 'True'; Repository: 'PSGallery'; AcceptLicense: 'False'; Quiet: 'False'; Reinstall: 'False'; TrustRepository: 'True'; NoClobber: 'False'; AsNupkg: 'False'; IncludeXml 'True'; SavePackage 'False'; TemporaryPath ''; SkipDependencyCheck: 'False'; AuthenticodeCheck: 'False'; PathsToInstallPkg: 'C:\Users\olavb\Documents\PowerShell\Modules,C:\Users\olavb\Documents\PowerShell\Scripts'; Scope 'CurrentUser'
DEBUG: In InstallHelper::ProcessRepositories()
DEBUG: In InstallHelper::InstallPackages()
DEBUG: In InstallHelper::InstallPackage()
DEBUG: In V2ServerAPICalls::FindName()
DEBUG: In V2ServerAPICalls::HttpRequestCall()
DEBUG: Request url is 'https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2/FindPackagesById()?%24filter=Id+eq+%27PrereleaseTest%27+and+IsAbsoluteLatestVersion+eq+true&%24inlinecount=allpages&id=%27PrereleaseTest%27'
What if: Performing the operation "Install-PSResource" on target "Package to install: 'PrereleaseTest', version: '0.0.2-prerelease'".

PS >

But using bool, also in a hashtable directly like so:

$DebugPreference = 'Continue'; Install-PSResource -TrustRepository -RequiredResource @{
    'PrereleaseTest' = @{
        'repository' = 'PSGallery'
        'prerelease' = $true
        'Scope'      = 'CurrentUser'
    }
} -WhatIf

fails.

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Maybe something should be done with the parsing? Would that be here?

• PSResourceGet/src/code/Utils.cs

  Line 1285 in 06aec34

  private static bool TryReadPSDataFile(

Or maybe it works as expected?