private/ConvertFrom-OrderedHashTablesToArrays.ps1
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function ConvertFrom-OrderedHashTablesToArrays { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)] $Item ) Write-Verbose "Entering Function: ConvertFrom-OrderedHashTablesToArrays"; if ( $Item.GetType().Name -eq "PSCustomObject" ) { Write-Verbose "Processing PSCustomObject..."; Write-Verbose "Properties: $($Item.PSObject.Properties.Name)"; # Loop through the properties, changing arrays and processing PSCustomObject's foreach ($prop in $Item.PSObject.Properties.Name) { if ($Item.$prop -eq $null){ Write-Verbose "Skipping property '$prop' as type cannot be determined for null"; continue; } Write-Verbose "Processing property '$prop' of type $($Item.$prop.GetType().Name)"; if ( $Item.$prop.GetType().Name -eq "OrderedDictionary" ) { Write-Verbose "Converting ordered hash table to array"; # First convert each item in the array to have ordered hashtables instead of arrays if required for ($i=0; $i -lt $Item.$prop.Count; $i++ ){ $Item.$prop[$i] = ConvertFrom-OrderedHashTablesToArrays -Item $Item.$prop[$i]; } # Then convert the actual array to a ordered hashtables # Without the ForEach-Object we get a OrderedDictionaryKeyValueCollection back, which is not too useful. We need an array, or the JSON # gets saved using the keys as properties instead of an array. The foreeach unboxes back to an array for us. $Item.$prop = @($Item.$prop.Values | ForEach-Object { $_ }); } elseif ( $Item.$prop.GetType().Name -eq "PSCustomObject" ) { Write-Verbose "Converting PSCustomObject property using a recursive function call..."; $Item.$prop = ConvertFrom-OrderedHashTablesToArrays -Item $Item.$prop; } } return $Item; } elseif ( $Item.GetType().BaseType -eq "OrderedDictionary" ) { Write-Verbose "Processing Array..."; $wrapper = [PSCustomObject]@{ WrappedObject = $Item } $result = ConvertFrom-OrderedHashTablesToArrays -obj $wrapper; return $result.WrappedObject; } else { Write-Verbose "Unknown input object type, not supportted"; return $Item; } } |