Disable Invoke-WebRequest Progress Bar to Remove Flickering Bar #183
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Cheers @ngetchell. Are you planning to publish a new release to the PowerShell gallery? |
| Write-Error -Message "$($GitlabErrorText.message.base)" | ||
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| $ProgressPreference = 'Continue' |
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I believe this will destroy whatever the user set before using one of the PSGitLab cmdlets.
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In my testing the variable is scoped to the function. The variable is gone after the function exists.
If you have a scenario where it would destroy the user preference let me know!
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Hi @DHowett, the $ProgressPreference variable used in the module is definitely scoped to the module and won't affect the value of $Global:ProgressPreference. See About_Scopes for further info.
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It is a shame there isn't anything in the Common Parameter set that can control progress.
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Agreed, here's the source if you want to add one 😉 https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/WebCmdlet
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Whoops, you're totally right. Thanks/sorry!
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For each GitLab API call, the
Invoke-WebRequestcommand displays a progress bar, which for a lot of calls, is only displayed for a fraction of a second. For a paginated call, multiple short-lived progress bars are displayed one after the other causing an annoying flickering on the PowerShell window.I don't think these progress bars are useful, so suggest disabling them by setting the
$ProgressPreferencevariable toSilentlyContinueduring theInvoke-WebRequestcalls as shown in this PR.