ansible/windows/win_file.ps1

#!powershell
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# WANT_JSON
# POWERSHELL_COMMON

$params = Parse-Args $args

# path
$path = Get-Attr $params "path" $FALSE
If ($path -eq $FALSE)
{
    $path = Get-Attr $params "dest" $FALSE
    If ($path -eq $FALSE)
    {
        $path = Get-Attr $params "name" $FALSE
        If ($path -eq $FALSE)
        {
            Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "missing required argument: path"
        }
    }
}

# JH Following advice from Chris Church, only allow the following states
# in the windows version for now:
# state - file, directory, touch, absent
# (originally was: state - file, link, directory, hard, touch, absent)

$state = Get-Attr $params "state" "unspecified"
# if state is not supplied, test the $path to see if it looks like 
# a file or a folder and set state to file or folder

# result
$result = New-Object psobject @{
    changed = $FALSE
}

If ( $state -eq "touch" )
{
    If(Test-Path $path)
    {
        (Get-ChildItem $path).LastWriteTime = Get-Date
    }
    Else
    {
        echo $null > $file
    }
    $result.changed = $TRUE
}

If (Test-Path $path)
{
    $fileinfo = Get-Item $path
    If ( $state -eq "absent" )
    {   
        Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $fileinfo
        $result.changed = $TRUE
    }
    Else
    {
        # Only files have the .Directory attribute.
        If ( $state -eq "directory" -and $fileinfo.Directory )
        {
            Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "path is not a directory"
        }

        # Only files have the .Directory attribute.
        If ( $state -eq "file" -and -not $fileinfo.Directory )
        {
            Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "path is not a file"
        }

    }
}
Else
# doesn't yet exist
{
    If ( $state -eq "unspecified" )
    {
        $basename = Split-Path -Path $path -Leaf
        If ($basename.length -gt 0) 
        {
           $state = "file"
        }
        Else
        {
           $state = "directory"
        }
    }

    If ( $state -eq "directory" )
    {
        New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $path
        $result.changed = $TRUE
    }

    If ( $state -eq "file" )
    {
        Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "path will not be created"
    }
}

Exit-Json $result