For example:
function Foo {
[string]$functionName = commandRetrievesFoo
Write-Host "This function is called $functionName"
}
Output:
PS > Foo
This function is called foo
For example:
function Foo {
[string]$functionName = commandRetrievesFoo
Write-Host "This function is called $functionName"
}
Output:
PS > Foo
This function is called foo
You can use $MyInvocation
which contains some useful information about what is currently executed.
function foo {
'This function is called {0}.' -f $MyInvocation.MyCommand
}
When you are in a function you can access the automatic variable $PSCmdLet.
This is an extremely useful variable that holds a lot of information about the currently executing cmdlet.
In our scenario we wanted the name and the definition of the current function for some recursion. $MyInvocation was null because the function was within a PowerShell module.
However, there is a "MyInvocation" property on the PSCmdLet object which contains all the information needed and allowed our scenario to run.
e.g. $PSCmdlet.MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name = The name of the function $PSCmdlet.MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition = The definition of the function
The Get-PSCallStack
option seems to work only once: when calling a function from the body of the script, the first time it will retrieve the script name, but the second time it will retrieve the text ''
Easy.
function Get-FunctionName ([int]$StackNumber = 1) {
return [string]$(Get-PSCallStack)[$StackNumber].FunctionName
}
By default Get-FunctionName in the example will get the name of the function that called it.
Function get-foo () {
Get-FunctionName
}
get-foo
#Reutrns 'get-foo'
Increasing the StackNumber parameter will get the name of the next function call up.
Function get-foo () {
Get-FunctionName -StackNumber 2
}
Function get-Bar () {
get-foo
}
get-Bar
#Reutrns 'get-Bar'