[wix-users] rejecting unknown properties supplied on command line

[Alan Sinclair]

Thanks Christopher

All the best
Alan
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 7:50 AM Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com wrote:

> There is no way that I'm aware of.  The MSI log shows all the properties
> passed to the msiexec command line but as I recall there is no API to find
> every property that was set.
>
>
> If this is really critical to you,  you could write a bootstrapper to
> write the MSI and have it pass a property to the MSI  (InstallShield uses
> SETUPEXEDRIVEN=1)  that the MSI could use to gate check.   If it's
> installed directly without this it could quit.   The bootstrapper could
> then do whatever cmdline validation you need.
>
>
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> *Cc:* Alan Sinclair
> *Subject:* [wix-users] rejecting unknown properties supplied on command
> line
>
> is there a neat way to catch and reject invalid command line properties?
> (e.g. "PROPERTY" supplied thus: "msiexec /i mystuff.msi
> PROPERTY=shouldberejected"
> - I don't mean rejecting invalid values, but rejecting based on the
> property name not being in a specific acceptable set
>
> thanks
> Alan
>
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