Invoke-DbaDbDataGenerator - Add workaround for DateTimeReference

[andreasjordan]

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• Bug fix (non-breaking change, fixes # )
• New feature (non-breaking change, adds functionality, fixes # )
• Breaking change (affects multiple commands or functionality, fixes # )
• Ran manual Pester test and has passed (Invoke-ManualPester)
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The value of the property DateTimeReference is currently $null, which causes the changed line to throw an exception.
We have to contact the developer of Bogus to solve the issue.

This is the original code to test if this throws on other installations as well:

$script:faker = New-Object Bogus.Faker('en')
$supportedFakerSubTypes = ($script:faker | Get-Member -MemberType Property) | ForEach-Object { ($script:faker.$($_.Name)) | Get-Member -MemberType Method | Where-Object { $_.Name -notlike 'To*' -and $_.Name -notlike 'Get*' -and $_.Name -notlike 'Trim*' -and $_.Name -notin 'Add', 'Equals', 'CompareTo', 'Clone', 'Contains', 'CopyTo', 'EndsWith', 'IndexOf', 'IndexOfAny', 'Insert', 'IsNormalized', 'LastIndexOf', 'LastIndexOfAny', 'Normalize', 'PadLeft', 'PadRight', 'Remove', 'Replace', 'Split', 'StartsWith', 'Substring', 'Letter', 'Lines', 'Paragraph', 'Paragraphs', 'Sentence', 'Sentences' } | Select-Object name -ExpandProperty Name }

So please test yourself and add a comment with the result.

[andreasjordan]

Old version:

New version:

So in the new version we updated the Bogus library which introduced the new property "DateTimeReference". This property is currently $null and thus must be excluded.

Should we open an issue on https://github.com/bchavez/Bogus ?

[potatoqualitee]

Thank you so much, seems reasonable to open a bug on Bogus!