I have a piece of code that works but I want to know if there is a better way to do it. I could not find anything related so far. Here are the facts:
Building the object (not really important):
$object = New-Object PSObject
Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name TableName -Value "MyTable"
Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Description -Value "Lorem ipsum dolor.."
Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name AppArea -Value "UserMgmt"
Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name InitialVersionCode -Value ""
The line that I need improvements (to filter out the non-valued properties and not include them in the JSON)
# So I want to 'keep' and deliver to the JSON only the properties that are valued (first 3).
$object | select -Property TableName, Description, AppArea, InitialVersion | ConvertTo-Json
What this line delivers:
Results:
{
"TableName": "MyTable",
"Description": "Lorem ipsum dolor..",
"AppArea": "UserMgmt",
"InitialVersion": null
}
What I want to obtain:
{
"TableName": "MyTable",
"Description": "Lorem ipsum dolor..",
"AppArea": "UserMgmt"
}
What I've tried and works, but I don't like it since I have much more properties to handle:
$JSON = New-Object PSObject
if ($object.TableName){
Add-Member -InputObject $JSON -MemberType NoteProperty -Name TableName -Value $object.TableName
}
if ($object.Description){
Add-Member -InputObject $JSON -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Description -Value $object.Description
}
if ($object.AppArea){
Add-Member -InputObject $JSON -MemberType NoteProperty -Name AppArea -Value $object.AppArea
}
if ($object.InitialVersionCode){
Add-Member -InputObject $JSON -MemberType NoteProperty -Name InitialVersionCode -Value $object.InitialVersionCode
}
$JSON | ConvertTo-Json
Something like this?
$object = New-Object PSObject
Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name TableName -Value "MyTable"
Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Description -Value "Lorem ipsum dolor.."
Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name AppArea -Value "UserMgmt"
Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name InitialVersionCode -Value ""
# Iterate over objects
$object | ForEach-Object {
# Get array of names of object properties that can be cast to boolean TRUE
# PSObject.Properties - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management.automation.psobject.properties.aspx
$NonEmptyProperties = $_.psobject.Properties | Where-Object {$_.Value} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name
# Convert object to JSON with only non-empty properties
$_ | Select-Object -Property $NonEmptyProperties | ConvertTo-Json
}
Result:
{
"TableName": "MyTable",
"Description": "Lorem ipsum dolor..",
"AppArea": "UserMgmt"
}