Upgrade Selected Apps via Winget

winget-upgrade-selected.ps1

# Based on https://www.codewrecks.com/post/general/winget-update-selective/ (gist at https://gist.github.com/alkampfergit/2f662c07df0ca379c8e8e65e588c687b)
# Adds a grid for selecting multiple apps
# Fixes packages with truncated names
# Adds a confirmation dialogue before actually upgrading

class Software {
    [string]$Name
    [string]$Id
    [string]$Version
    [string]$AvailableVersion
}

function Winget-Query-Full-Id{
    param(
        [string]$string
    )

    $listLine = winget list $string.TrimEnd("…") | Out-String

    $listLines = $listLine.Split([Environment]::NewLine)
    
    For ($i = 0; $i -le $listLines.Length; $i++) 
    {
        $sel = $listLines[$i] | Select-String -Pattern "($($string.TrimEnd("…"))\S*)"# -AllMatches
        if (-not $sel) {
            continue
        }
        return $sel.Matches[0].Value
    }

    return $string.TrimEnd("…")
}

$upgradeResult = winget upgrade --include-unknown | Out-String
    
$lines = $upgradeResult.Split([Environment]::NewLine)

# Find the line that starts with Name, it contains the header
$fl = 0
while (-not $lines[$fl].StartsWith("Name"))
{
    $fl++
}

# Line $i has the header, we can find char where we find ID and Version
$idStart = $lines[$fl].IndexOf("Id")
$versionStart = $lines[$fl].IndexOf("Version")
$availableStart = $lines[$fl].IndexOf("Available")
$sourceStart = $lines[$fl].IndexOf("Source")

# Now cycle in real package and split accordingly
$upgradeList = @()
For ($i = $fl + 1; $i -le $lines.Length; $i++) 
{
    $line = $lines[$i]
    if ($line.Length -gt ($availableStart + 1) -and -not $line.StartsWith('-'))
    {
        $name = $line.Substring(0, $idStart).TrimEnd()
        $id = $line.Substring($idStart, $versionStart - $idStart).TrimEnd()
        #Write-Host "$id"
        if($line.IndexOf("…") -gt -1){
            # Fix Id if it was truncated
            $id = Winget-Query-Full-Id -string $id
        }
        $version = $line.Substring($versionStart, $availableStart - $versionStart).TrimEnd()
        $available = $line.Substring($availableStart, $sourceStart - $availableStart).TrimEnd()
        $software = [Software]::new()
        $software.Name = $name;
        $software.Id = $id;
        $software.Version = $version
        $software.AvailableVersion = $available;

        $upgradeList += $software
    }
}

$upgradeList | Format-Table

$toUpgrade = $upgradeList | Out-GridView -PassThru

$upgraded = 0

foreach ($package in $toUpgrade) 
{
    # TODO add option to skip this dialogue
    $title = "Upgrade $($package.id)?"
    $question = "Upgrade package $($package.id) from $($package.version) to $($package.availableversion)?"
    $choices = '&Yes', '&No'

    $decision = $Host.UI.PromptForChoice($title, $question, $choices, 0)
    if ($decision -eq 0) {
        Write-Host "Going to upgrade package $($package.id)"
        # TODO add option to skip waiting for input
        & winget upgrade --include-unknown --wait --verbose $package.id
        if($?){
            Write-Host "Success"
            $script:upgraded++
        }
        else{
            Write-Host "Failed"
        }
    }
    else {
        Write-Host "Skipped upgrade to package $($package.id)"
    }
}

Write-Host "Upgraded $($upgraded) out of $($package.Count)"
Read-Host -Prompt "Press any key to exit"

Suggest more error checking on the first parse of the winget output at line 40 to handle the case where there is nothing to process and the output doesn't contain an expected string which causes the script to spew several lines of error messages.