Powershell: RunspaceInvoke is missing from latest release

[Triggs9]

ILSpy on the latest release:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Management.Automation/

shows RunspaceInvoke missing

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.management.automation.runspaceinvoke?view=powershellsdk-1.1.0

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/hostifaces/RunspaceInvoke.cs

[iSazonov]

/cc @JamesWTruher

[daxian-dbw]

Hmm, the RunspaceInvoke.cs was not included in the build, since 6.0 ... See https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/src/System.Management.Automation/System.Management.Automation.csproj#L102

I don't see an obvious reason to exclude it. Maybe it should be brought back.
/cc @adityapatwardhan @TravisEz13 @rjmholt

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[rjmholt]

I don't see the harm, beyond confusing the API a bit with an alternative to PowerShell.Create().AddScript(...).Invoke(). Does this do anything different?

[TravisEz13]

It has some APIs which take a string and and execute them. That's not the safest thing to do, but I'm pretty sure we have similar APIs

[daxian-dbw]

@Triggs9 How did you find it missing? Did you try to migrate old code to PowerShell 7 and found it broken because of this?

[rjmholt]

I feel I should mention that this not being in PS 7.0 (and also PSStd) does devalue adding it back in now a bit

[Triggs9]

No i was trying to run something from the current powershell runspace instead of in a sub powershell instance. I was able to get it working by using an old library that had it included. So i thought i would bring it up, but then abandoned that approach in favor of using just $ExecutionContext.InvokeCommand.InvokeScript()

[rjmholt]

You can also try PowerShell.Create(RunspaceMode.CurrentRunspace)

[Triggs9]

You can also try PowerShell.Create(RunspaceMode.CurrentRunspace)

@rjmholt Thanks, I've actually been using this in all situations now.

[daxian-dbw]

@PowerShell/powershell-maintainers maintainers reviewed this issue and decided to not bring this type back given that

1. this type is missing from PS 7.0 LTS
2. the customer has a workaround.