Ability to suppress "AWSHistory is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release." warning during VSCode debugging?

[jakauppila]

Describe the bug

When debugging a Powershell script via VSCode, I'm getting the following log entry written to my terminal quite often.

AWSHistory is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release. Instead, use '-Select *' when it is necessary to return the entire service response as cmdlet output.

I'm assuming it's due to the variable watching that vscode does and since it is retrieving $AWSHistory, it's logging that warning.

Is there a way to suppress that warning? If not, could one be added?

Regression Issue

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Expected Behavior

I would like to be able to suppress the log warning since I'm not explicitly accessing the variable so don't care to see it.

Current Behavior

When debugging a Powershell script in VSCode that loads any of the AWS.Tools.* and adding a breakpoint to step through it, it will log the warning once an AWS function is called and $AWSHistory is populated

Reproduction Steps

Within VSCode

Install-Module AWS.Tools.Common

Write-Output 'Hello'

Set-DefaultAWSRegion 'us-east-2'

Write-Output 'World'

Put a breakpoint at the second Write-Output with F9 and press F5 to run the script.

Possible Solution

No response

Additional Information/Context

No response

AWS Tools for PowerShell version used

AWS.Tools.* 4.1.704

PowerShell version used

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.4.4
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.4.4
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.22621
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Operating System and version

Windows 11

[ashishdhingra]

The mentioned warnings are emitted in AWSHistoryCmdlets.cs using the WriteWarning() method of PSCmdLet class. Per $WarningPreference, the value SilentlyContinue should not display warning message and the execution should continue.

Tried explicitly setting $WarningPreference="SilentlyContinue" and/or using -WarningAction "SilentlyContinue" parameter, but it doesn't appear to work in Visual Studio Code. This appears to be a general VS Code question rather than AWS PowerShell issue.

@jakauppila Please advise if you have tried opening issue at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode.

[Rom265]

This is super annoying. The issue seems to compound. I just started to step through code and before it ran anything, it printed that line 36 times. I did just open a bug report with the VS Code Powershell Extension team. PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5106

[JustinGrote]

aws-tools-for-powershell/modules/AWSPowerShell/Common/AWSHistoryCmdlets.cs

Line 38 in e2ccfa5

WriteWarning("AWSHistory is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release. Instead, use '-Select *' when it is necessary to return the entire service response as cmdlet output.");

This line should be in BeginProcessing not ProcessRecord, it will emit once for every object passed to AWSHistory, which is not what I think you want.

e.g. 1..100 will cause this to emit 100 times.

[afroz429]

Thanks for reporting the issue. Currently, there is no way to disable the warning. We will issue a fix soon so that the warning is displayed only once per session instead of displaying the warning each time the $AWSHistory variable is evaluated.