ConvertTo-JSON an array with a single item

Question

I\'m trying to create a JSON-serialized array. When that array contains only one item I get a string, not an array of strings (in JSON).

Multiple Items (works as exp

Answer 1

I faced this issue with an array that was a child in an object. The array had one object in it, and ConvertTo-Json was removing the object in the array.

Two things to resolve this:

I had to set the -Depth parameter on ConvertTo-Json

$output = $body | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 10

I had to create the object in the array as a hashtable and then convert that to an object

$myArray.Add([pscustomobject]@{prop1 = ""; prop2 = "" })