Public/xcrypt/ConvertTo-Hashtable.ps1
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function ConvertTo-Hashtable { [cmdletbinding()] [OutputType([System.Collections.Specialized.OrderedDictionary])] [OutputType([System.Collections.Hashtable])] Param( [Parameter( Position = 0, Mandatory, HelpMessage = "Please specify an object", ValueFromPipeline )] [ValidateNotNullorEmpty()] [object]$InputObject, [switch]$NoEmpty, [string[]]$Exclude, [switch]$Alphabetical, [Parameter(HelpMessage = "Create an ordered hashtable instead of a plain hashtable.")] [switch]$Ordered ) Process { <# get type using the [Type] class because deserialized objects won't have a GetType() method which is what I would normally use. #> $TypeName = [system.type]::GetTypeArray($InputObject).name Write-Verbose "Converting an object of type $TypeName" #get property names using Get-Member $names = $InputObject | Get-Member -MemberType properties | Select-Object -ExpandProperty name if ($Alphabetical) { Write-Verbose "Sort property names alphabetically" $names = $names | Sort-Object } #define an empty hash table if ($Ordered) { Write-Verbose "Creating an ordered hashtable" $hash = [ordered]@{ } } else { $hash = @{ } } #go through the list of names and add each property and value to the hash table $names | ForEach-Object { #only add properties that haven't been excluded if ($Exclude -notcontains $_) { #only add if -NoEmpty is not called and property has a value if ($NoEmpty -AND !($inputobject.$_)) { Write-Verbose "Skipping $_ as empty" } else { Write-Verbose "Adding property $_" $hash.Add($_, $inputobject.$_) } } else { Write-Verbose "Excluding $_" } } Write-Verbose "Writing the result to the pipeline" Write-Output $hash } } |