Get-Item behaving weird returns [PSCustomObject] instead of item but sometimes working fine as well

Question

I am trying to get a media item using the below, most of the times it works perfectly fine for me, however sometimes the same Powershell returns [PSCustomObject], instead of the media item.

Sometimes it returns me the correct item and sometimes it returns me this Object which ultimately results in null item path. Please suggest here.

Answer 1

As Michael said in its comment, the item may be null. I did a quick test locally and below is the result

I've used the Item Id of the default Home item and the result shows that the item is not null.

$item = Get-Item -Path master -ID "{110D559F-DEA5-42EA-9C1C-8A5DF7E70EF9}"

if($item -ne $null){
    Write-Host "Item is not null"
}
else{
    
    Write-Host "Item null"
}

However, when I change the ID to something which does not exist, the result is still shown as PSCustomObject but it shows that the item is null.

So, you need to check for null on the variable $GetImage.

$GetImage= Get-Item -Path master: -ID $parsedID

if($GetImage -ne $null){
    # Process item here
}
else{
    Write-Host "Skipping item id $parsedID as it is null"
}