Select-DefaultView.ps1

Function Select-DefaultView
{
	<# 
	
	This command enables us to send full on objects to the pipeline without the user seeing it
	
	See it in action in Get-DbaSnapshot and Remove-DbaDatabaseSnapshot
	
	a lot of this is from boe, thanks boe! 
	https://learn-powershell.net/2013/08/03/quick-hits-set-the-default-property-display-in-powershell-on-custom-objects/
	
	TypeName creates a new type so that we can use ps1xml to modify the output
	#>
	
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param (
		[parameter(ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
		[object]$InputObject,
		[string[]]$Property,
		[string[]]$ExcludeProperty,
		[string]$TypeName
	)
	process
	{
		
		if ($InputObject -eq $null) { return }
		
		if ($TypeName)
		{
			$InputObject.PSObject.TypeNames.Insert(0, "dbatools.$TypeName")
		}
		
		if ($ExcludeProperty)
		{
			if ($InputObject.GetType().Name.ToString() -eq 'DataRow')
			{
				$ExcludeProperty += 'Item', 'RowError', 'RowState', 'Table', 'ItemArray', 'HasErrors'
			}
			
			$properties = ($InputObject.PsObject.Members | Where-Object MemberType -ne 'Method' | Where-Object { $_.Name -notin $ExcludeProperty }).Name
			$defaultset = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSPropertySet('DefaultDisplayPropertySet', [string[]]$properties)
		}
		else
		{
			# property needs to be string
			if ("$property" -like "* as *")
			{
				$newproperty = @()
				foreach ($p in $property)
				{
					if ($p -like "* as *")
					{
						$old, $new = $p -isplit " as "
						# Do not be tempted to not pipe here
						$inputobject | Add-Member -MemberType AliasProperty -Name $new -Value $old -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
						$newproperty += $new
					}
					else
					{
						$newproperty += $p
					}
				}
				$property = $newproperty
			}
			
			$defaultset = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSPropertySet('DefaultDisplayPropertySet', [string[]]$Property)
		}
		
		$standardmembers = [System.Management.Automation.PSMemberInfo[]]@($defaultset)
		
		# Do not be tempted to not pipe here
		$inputobject | Add-Member -MemberType MemberSet -Name PSStandardMembers -Value $standardmembers -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
		
		$inputobject
	}
}