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themaninthesuitcase
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Reputation: 4791

ConvertTo-Json truncating object

I have a simple object with 1 parameter being an ArrayList of objects. I am using ConvertTo-Json to output this to Json. However even if I set -Depth 1000 I still see truncation of data.

Structure is:

Object
   Property
   Property - ArrayList of Object2.

Object 2 is a simple collection of properties.

The output I see is:

{
    "CheckDate":  "03 February 2016 10:12:30",
    "Versions":  [
                     {

                     },
                     {

                     }
                 ]
}

Calling convert on the ArrayList directly all the data is shown. It would appear as if the -Depth argument is not being honored and is stuck at 2.

edit: Code to create object

$returnValue = New-Object System.Object
$returnValue | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name CheckDate -value (Get-Date).DateTime
$versions = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList

# This bit is in a loop.
$app = New-Object System.Object
$app | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -Name Name -Value $name
$app | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -Name Version -Value $version 
$versions.Add($app)

# Back out of the loop.
$returnValue | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Versions -value $versions

Upvotes: 3

Views: 991

Answers (1)

Roman Kuzmin
Roman Kuzmin

Reputation: 42073

Use PSObject instead of System.Object. Unfortunately, I cannot provide any details, it is some internal "magic" of ConvertTo-Json. Interestingly, it is enough to use PSObject instead of the second System.Object.

Upvotes: 3

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