Creating Dependency Graph via PowerShell

Question

Hello All,

I am referring to the below URL:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1127027/depender-and-dependee-variable-reallignment.html
wherein we too need to create a DAG / Dependency graph based on Depender and Dependee.

@Rich Matheisen

Below is my scenario :

$Trigger=@{} #Key vaule pair variable
$Connection=@{} #Key vaule pair variable
$Data=@{} #Key vaule pair variable

$Trigger Key Value
A {P1,P2}
B {P1,P5,B1}

$Connection Key Value
X {P1,J1}
y {P5}

$Data Key Value
S {X,R1}

Output:

Is there any way to create this DAG/Dependency graph in powershell based on key value variables?

Answer 1

I think you'd do better to use an existing dependency graphing tool. For example: generating-dependency-graphs

Taking your example, and using Mermaid, the graph description looks like this:

graph TD  
  A -->P1  
  A -->P2  
  B -->P1  
  B -->P5  
  B -->B1  
  X -->P1  
  X -->J1  
  Y -->P5  
  S -->R1  
  S -->X  

And the result looks like this: