powershell script configuration?

Question

PowerShell

Hello.
There is a script written in powershell, what are the options for storing its configuration?
What is more convenient in practice?

Answer 1

Environment variables, registry, config next to the file or in the profile (as a config, you can simply put a powershell script with assignments and variables and execute it)

Answer 2

in practice, it will be more convenient to use the fact that the powershell can parse natively.
json, clixml, csv and xml partially.

Answer 3

An example of storing a configuration in xml.

Script

function getConfig ($configFile){
    if (Test-Path ((Get-Location).Path + "\$configFile")){
        $config = ([xml]$(Get-Content $configFile)).configuration
        if ($? -and $config){
            return $config
        }
        else{
            Write-Host 'Config file is incorrect'
        }
    }
    else {
        Write-Host 'Config file not found'
    } 
}

function init {
    $files = $configuration.logFiles.File
    foreach ($file in $files){
        New-Item -Path ($(Get-Location).Path + "\Logs\$(Get-Date -Format 'yyyy')\$(Get-Date -Format 'MM')\$(Get-Date -Format 'dd')") -Name $file.value -ItemType File -Force | Out-Null
    }
}

$ErrorActionPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
$configFile = 'config.xml'
$configuration = getConfig ($configFile)
init

config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<configuration>
  <logFiles>
    <File key="Full" value="logFull.log"/>
    <File key="Warning" value="logWarning.log"/>
    <File key="Error" value="logError.log"/>
  </logFiles>
</configuration>