Iterating through key names from a PSCustomObject

Question

I am writing a script for my site that utilizes a JSON configuration file. The JSON is similar to the following:

\"Groups\": {
    \"GroupOne\": {
        \"Nami         


        

Answer 1

I think I might have just figured it out thanks to the blog post Converting PsCustomObject To/From Hashtables.

Using Get-Member and then -MemberType exposes each Group and then you just pull the:

foreach ($group in $configObject.Groups) {
    $groupName = $($group | Get-Member -MemberType *Property).Name
}

Outputs:

GroupOne
GroupTwo
GroupThree

I'm open to any other methods though.

Update

I've found another way, but the only drawback is it doesn't use the fancy ConvertFrom-Json CmdLet. Instead it goes straight to the .NET library and uses its deserializer and converts it to a HashTable. This completely avoids having to muddle around with the PSCustomObject. IMO hashtables are a whole lot easier to work with.

$JSON = Get-Content -Path path/to.json -Raw
$HT = (New-Object System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer).Deserialize($JSON, [System.Collections.Hashtable])
$HT.Groups.GetEnumerator() | ForEach-Object {
    Write-Host "$($_.Key) : $($_.Value)"
}