BeforeAll & AfterAll instructions #181
Description
Hi everyone,
I've used Psake for a few weeks now, and I'm quite surprised there is no AfterAll or BeforeAll functions. I mean, something like TaskSetup and TaskTearDown but launched only once, before and after all tasks. Here is psake grammar with BuildScriptSetup (BeforeAll) and BuildScriptTearDown (AfterAll) :
<BuildScript> ::= <Includes>
| <Properties>
| <FormatTaskName>
| <TaskSetup>
| <TaskTearDown>
| <BuildScriptSetup>
| <BuildScriptTearDown>
| <Tasks>
<Includes> ::= Include <StringLiteral> | <Includes>
<Properties> ::= Properties <ScriptBlock> | <Properties>
<FormatTaskName> ::= FormatTaskName <Stringliteral>
<TaskSetup> ::= TaskSetup <ScriptBlock>
<TaskTearDown> ::= TaskTearDown <ScriptBlock>
<BuildScriptSetup> ::= BuildScriptSetup <ScriptBlock>
<BuildScriptTearDown> ::= BuildScriptTearDown <ScriptBlock>
<Tasks> ::= Task <TaskParameters> | <Tasks>
<TaskParameters> ::= -Name <StringLiteral>
| -Action <ScriptBlock>
| -PreAction <ScriptBlock>
| -PostAction <ScriptBlock>
| -PreCondition <ScriptBlock>
| -PostCondition <ScriptBlock>
| -ContinueOnError <Boolean>
| -Depends <TaskNames>
| -Description <StringLiteral>
<TaskNames> ::= <StringLiteral>, | <TaskNames>
<ScriptBlock> ::= { <PowerShellStatements> }
<Boolean> ::= $true | $false
So my questions are :
- Is there a reason to not implement this instructions ?
- Would you accept some potential contribution to add them ?
- Is the prior proposition would be correct (naming, etc.) ?
For reference, a similar question has been asked on psake-users in 2012.
Here is the grammar on the doc