added deserialze fix to Get-DSCPullServerESERecord (#55) (#57)

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* added deserialze fix to Get-DSCPullServerESERecord
* fix #56. Pull server was unable to cast string[] to generic list[string]
* updated manifest

Author: bgelens

DSCPullServerAdmin/DSCPullServerAdmin.psd1

@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ Author = 'Ben Gelens'
 # CompanyName = 'Unknown'
 
 # Copyright statement for this module
-Copyright = '(c) 2018 Ben Gelens. All rights reserved.'
+Copyright = '(c) 2019 Ben Gelens. All rights reserved.'
 
 # Description of the functionality provided by this module
-Description = 'Get, manipulate and migrate data from your DSC Pull Server database (EDB and SQL)'
+Description = 'Get, manipulate and migrate data from your DSC Pull Server database (MDB, EDB and SQL)'
 
 # Minimum version of the Windows PowerShell engine required by this module
 PowerShellVersion = '5.1'
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ PrivateData = @{
         # ReleaseNotes of this module
         ReleaseNotes = 'EDB Fixes:
 
-* StatusReport move from Last to Previous. Issue: #43.
-* Registration and devices from from First to Next. Issue: #51'
+* Fixed deserialization issue for StatusData Issue: #54.
+* Fixed typecasting issue for ConfigurationNames / StatusData and Errors resulting in Pull Server errors. Issue: #56'
 
     } # End of PSData hashtable
 

DSCPullServerAdmin/private/Get-DSCPullServerESERecord.ps1

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ function Get-DSCPullServerESERecord {
                             try {
                                 [void][ipaddress]::Parse($_)
                                 $_
-                            } catch {}
+                            } catch { }
                         }
                     } elseif ($column.Name -in $boolColumns) {
                         $result."$($column.Name)" = [Microsoft.Isam.Esent.Interop.Api]::RetrieveColumnAsBoolean(
@@ -136,7 +136,13 @@ function Get-DSCPullServerESERecord {
                             $column.Columnid
                         )
                         if ($column.Name -eq 'StatusData') {
-                            $result."$($column.Name)" = $data | ConvertFrom-Json -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
+                            if ($null -ne $data) {
+                                if ($data.GetType() -like 'psobject*') {
+                                    $result."$($column.Name)" = $data
+                                } else {
+                                    $result."$($column.Name)" = $data | ConvertFrom-Json -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
+                                }
+                            }
                         } else {
                             $result."$($column.Name)" = $data
                         }

DSCPullServerAdmin/private/Set-DSCPullServerESERecord.ps1

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ function Set-DSCPullServerESERecord {
                         $Connection.SessionId,
                         $Connection.TableId,
                         $columnDictionary[$_],
-                        $InputObject.$_
+                        [Collections.Generic.List[String]]$InputObject.$_
                     )
                 } elseif ($_ -eq 'IPAddress') {
                     [Microsoft.Isam.Esent.Interop.Api]::SetColumn(