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I have a project to write a script that connects to a Web Service and retrieve information of selected records. Unfortunately there is no PowerShell support from the vendor. Their documents only provides .Net examples. The web service that I am trying to retrieve information is for HP Trim v7. Maybe some of you are familiar.

Here is the .Net example from vendor

Example – Title Word search

// Construct a request object
TrimRequest request = new TrimRequest();

// Construct a RecordStringSearchClause, with type
// TitleWord, and argument "reef"
RecordStringSearchClause clause = new RecordStringSearchClause();
clause.Type = RecordStringSearchClauseType.TitleWord;
clause.Arg = "reef";

// Construct a record search, and put our search clause in it
RecordSearch search = new RecordSearch();
search.Items = new RecordClause[] { clause };

// Put our search operation into our TrimRequest
request.Items = new Operation[] { search };

// Send it off. Whatever comes back will be in response
Engine engine = new Engine();
engine.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, password);
TrimResponse response = engine.Execute(request);

And here is my PowerShell code

$url = "http://localhost/trimws/trim.asmx"
$Engine = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $url -Class "proxy" -Namespace "Connection" -UseDefaultCredential

$RecordStringSearchClause = New-Object Connection.RecordStringSearchClause

$ClauseType = New-Object Connection.RecordStringSearchClauseType
$ClauseType.value__ = 4 ##Record Number
$RecordStringSearchClause.Type = $ClauseType
$RecordStringSearchClause.Arg = "39299763"

$RecordSearch = New-Object Connection.RecordSearch
$RecordClause = New-Object Connection.RecordClause ## doesn't work

$RecordSearch.Items = New-Object Connection.RecordClause { $RecordStringSearchClause } ## doesn't work
$RecordSearch.Items = $RecordStringSearchClause

$TrimRequest = New-Object Connection.TrimRequest
$TrimRequest.Items = $RecordSearch

$Engine.Execute($TrimRequest) ## returns nothing

Could any body help me to convert above .Net code into PowerShell script? (if technically possible)

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  • What does `New-Object Connection.RecordClause ## doesn't work` mean? No object, wrong object, something else? – vonPryz Nov 11 '14 at 11:12
  • New-Object : Constructor not found. Cannot find an appropriate constructor for type Connection.RecordClause. – user3635170 Nov 11 '14 at 22:07
  • Wrappers on wrappers.... a web service doesn't need a special .Net class to call it. You can just call the web service directly. However a special vendor wrapper can certainly make it easy. I think you have to make the class know to powershell by using `Add-Type` or using `New-Object ` – Nick.Mc Apr 02 '23 at 12:14

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