private/ConvertFrom-OrderedHashTablesToArrays.ps1
function ConvertFrom-OrderedHashTablesToArrays { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)] $Item ) Write-Debug "BEGIN: ConvertFrom-OrderedHashTablesToArrays"; if ( $Item.GetType().Name -eq "PSCustomObject" ) { Write-Verbose "Processing PSCustomObject..."; $cnt = @($Item.PSobject.Properties).Count if ($cnt) { Write-Verbose "Properties: $($Item.PSObject.Properties.Name -join ', ')"; } else { Write-Verbose "The object is empty - no further processing"; } # Loop through the properties, changing arrays and processing PSCustomObject's foreach ($p in $Item.PSObject.Properties) { $prop = $p.Name if ($null -eq $Item.$prop) { 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 arrays instead of ordered hashtables if required for ($i=0; $i -lt $Item.$prop.Count; $i++ ){ $Item.$prop[$i] = ConvertFrom-OrderedHashTablesToArrays -Item $Item.$prop[$i]; } # Then convert the actual ordered hashtables back to an array # 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; } } |