Powershell and jobs

Powershell jobs are a bit of blunt instrument.

Here's two options for sending inputs for them
Scenario 1: Sending a string with all of our values and splitting them to an array when inside the scriptblock.

	$inputString = "text1;text2;text3"
	start-job -ArgumentList $inputString -ScriptBlock {
	$listItems = @($args[0]).split(";")
	write-output "I got $($listItems.count) items with me..."
	foreach ($listItem in $listItems) {
	write-output "Item: $listItem"
	}
	} -Name "Test"
	get-job |where-object {$_.name -like "Test"} |receive-job -AutoRemoveJob -wait

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Scenario2: Sending an object as input. Handy for configs and saves the need to define variablenames.

	$ScriptPath = $(split-path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)
	$inputs = new-object PSObject -Property @{url="Test48"; State="Added";scriptPath=$ScriptPath}
	start-job -InputObject $inputs -ScriptBlock {
	$data = @($input)
	write-output "My output: $($data)"
	write-output "url: $($data.url)"
	write-output "state: $($data.state)"
	write-output "scriptpath: $($data.scriptpath)"
	} -Name "Test"
	get-job |where-object {$_.name -like "Test"} |receive-job -AutoRemoveJob -wait

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