Getting unknown error while fetching media item using powershell sitecore

Question

I was trying to get media item using media ID. I am getting the below error which I haven't faced before in powershell sitecore.

Scenario

$ImageId - {61630AC1F0E3111B9C50CEEE0B2B0223}

I am using the below command and getting below mentioned error:-

Get-Item -Path master: -ID $ImageId

Error

Get-Item : Expected hex 0x in '{0}'. Actual value: {61630AC1F0E3111B9C50CEEE0B2B0223}

The same command is working fine in 2 more places, is this a PowerShell extension bug ?

Answer 1

The first issue is because the ID that you are trying to use is not in the proper format. One way to workaround this is to parse the id that you received without the { }. Please see code below

$id = [Sitecore.Data.ID]::Parse("110D559FDEA542EA9C1C8A5DF7E70EF9")
$item = Get-Item "master: -ID $id"
$item

The above code snippet will provide the below output

So, for your case, all you need to do at first is to remove the { } and then parse the value to the ID.Parse method.

Update

Below is a script snippet on replacing the { }

$ImageStringId = "{61630AC1F0E3111B9C50CEEE0B2B0223}"

$updatedStringId = $ImageStringId.replace("{","")
$updatedStringId = $updatedStringId.replace("}","")

Write-Host "Updated Image String Id $updatedStringId"

$id = [Sitecore.Data.ID]::Parse($updatedStringId)

$item = Get-Item "master: -ID $id"
$item