Accessing private members from powershell

Question 1

I’m trying to get Uri to stop encoding ‘/’
As explained here:
GETting a URL with an url-encoded slash

But how to achieve the same in powershell ?

I’m trying to follow the route of accessing private property and changing it’s value but I can’t get it to work.

[Uri].GetProperties([System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::NonPublic) – returns nothing

Any ideas?

Question 2

This is working solution for PowerShell:

$uri = [Uri]"http://example.com/%2F"
# access the .PathAndQuery field to initialize the Uri object
$pathAndQuery = $uri.PathAndQuery
$flagsField = $uri.GetType().GetField("m_Flags", [Reflection.BindingFlags]::NonPublic -bor [Reflection.BindingFlags]::Instance)
$flagsValue = [UInt64]$flagsField.GetValue($uri)
# remove flags Flags.PathNotCanonical and Flags.QueryNotCanonical
$flagsValue = [UInt64]($flagsValue -band (-bnot 0x30));
$flagsField.SetValue($uri, $flagsValue)
Write-Host $uri.AbsoluteUri

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$uri = [Uri]"http://example.com/%2F"

# access the .PathAndQuery field to initialize the Uri object

$pathAndQuery = $uri.PathAndQuery

$flagsField = $uri.GetType().GetField("m_Flags", [Reflection.BindingFlags]::NonPublic -bor [Reflection.BindingFlags]::Instance)

$flagsValue = [UInt64]$flagsField.GetValue($uri)

# remove flags Flags.PathNotCanonical and Flags.QueryNotCanonical

$flagsValue = [UInt64]($flagsValue -band (-bnot 0x30));

$flagsField.SetValue($uri, $flagsValue)

Write-Host $uri.AbsoluteUri

Thanks to google-api-dotnet-client path 🙂 please note, that there is some difference with .net 2.0, my code is working for > .net 2.0 (for <= 2.0 versions, the type of flagsValue object will be [Int32] instead of [Uint64])

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