Unable to work with prerelease packages having dependencies on prerelease packages

[dominikjeske]

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Steps to reproduce

I'm working with Powershell 7.5 on Windows 11 with PSResourceGet 1.1. For artifactory we are using Jfrog Artifactory 7.90.15

I'm trying to work with our Powershell modules - we have many of them so we have dependency tree on x levels.
To simplify I will describe simple case - I have package A 1.0.0-alpha1 that has dependency on package B 1.0.0-alpha1. I created prerelase version of package B with no problem and publish it using both PowerShellGetv2 and PSResourceGet. But problems started when I prepared package A

1. First thing is that reading docs it is not clear how to reference prerelase - I just assume that I simply put 1.0.0 in RequiredModules and other tools should use prerelase when accurate (but it is not clear)
2. When I tried to publish module A with Publish-PSResource there was a validation error that package B with version 1.0.0 is not found in repository (When use Find-PSResource with Prerelease flag I can see this module on repository). So only way to publish was to use SkipDependenciesCheck.
3. For now trying to install package A with dependencies from feed in nuget v3 is not supported ("WARNING: Installing dependencies is not currently supported for V3 server protocol repositories. The package will be installed without installing dependencies") - You know this but I mentioning this to have whole picture. So using Install-PSResource or Find-PSResource is not usable for now.
4. When tried on nuget v2 with Install-PSResource -Name "A" -Prerelease I get following error

Install-PSResource: 'Response status code does not indicate success: 500 (Internal Server Error).' Request sent: 'https://xxx/artifactory/api/nuget/yyy/FindPackagesById()?%24filter=NormalizedVersion+ge+%270.0.20%27+and+NormalizedVersion+le+%270.0.209%27&%24inlinecount=allpages&%24skip=0&%24orderby=NormalizedVersion+desc&id=%27B%27'

and the tried to access link given in error I get

{
  "errors" : [ {
    "status" : 500,
    "message" : "java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke \"java.lang.Comparable.compareTo(Object)\" because \"pair.lhs\" is null"
  } ]
}

Same error is when I tried Find-PSResource -Name A with -IncludeDependencies. I don't know how this breaks but old method Find-Module with dependencies is working OK.
5. Trying to install with old Install-Module with AllowPrerelease but it fails bocause Module B was not found (WARNING: Unable to find dependent module...)

After reading release notes from here https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/psresourceget-is-generally-available/ - "There is now prerelease dependency support. Modules can now take dependencies directly on prerelease modules in the psd1. This includes a change in both publish, and install (note this isn’t backwards compatible, in the sense that the change has not been also made to install-module)". I'm little confused how to use prerelase dependencies. Maybe there is something I can do better but for now I don't know how to work with this. According to point 4 maybe this is something to raise ticket to Jfrog but I'm not sure is this a bug there or maybe you are sending something wrong :)

Expected behavior

I can publish and install prerelase packages depend on other prerelase packages

Actual behavior

Error described above

Error details

Details in description

Environment data

ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                ----------------
Binary     1.1.0                 Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet  {Compress-PSResource, Find-PSResource, Get-InstalledPSResource, Get-PSResourceRepository…}

Key   : PSVersion
Value : 7.5.0
Name  : PSVersion


Key   : PSEdition
Value : Core
Name  : PSEdition


Key   : GitCommitId
Value : 7.5.0
Name  : GitCommitId


Key   : OS
Value : Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045
Name  : OS


Key   : Platform
Value : Win32NT
Name  : Platform


Key   : PSCompatibleVersions
Value : {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
Name  : PSCompatibleVersions


Key   : PSRemotingProtocolVersion
Value : 2.3
Name  : PSRemotingProtocolVersion


Key   : SerializationVersion
Value : 1.1.0.1
Name  : SerializationVersion


Key   : WSManStackVersion
Value : 3.0
Name  : WSManStackVersion

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