Private/Start-ClientProcess.ps1

Function Start-ClientProcess {

    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
    Starts a process
 
    .DESCRIPTION
    Receives a process object.
 
    Returns Object containing ExitCode, StdOut & StdErr
 
    .PARAMETER Process
    System.Diagnostics.Process object containing parameters for a client
 
    .EXAMPLE
    Start-ClientProcess -Process $Process
 
    Invokes the Start method on the $Process object
 
    .NOTES
    AUTHOR: Pete Maan
 
    #>


    [CmdLetBinding(SupportsShouldProcess)]
    [Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute("PSShouldProcess", "", Justification = "ShouldProcess handling is in Invoke-PACLICommand")]
    param(

        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $True,
            ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $True
        )]
        [System.Diagnostics.Process]$Process
    )

    Begin {

    }

    Process {

        #Start Process
        $Process.start() | Out-Null

        #Read Output Stream First
        $StdOut = $Process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd()
        $StdErr = $Process.StandardError.ReadToEnd()

        #If you wait for the process to exit before reading StandardOutput
        #the process can block trying to write to it, so the process never ends.
        $Process.WaitForExit()

        [PSCustomObject] @{

            "ExitCode" = $Process.ExitCode
            "StdOut"   = $StdOut
            "StdErr"   = $StdErr

        }

    }

    End {

        $Process.Dispose()

    }

}