Unexpected array to string conversion

Question

I\'m trying to pack my data into objects before displaying them with ConvertTo-Json. The test case below shows perfectly how I\'m dealing with data and what pro

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments, ConvertTo-Json will try to flatten the object structure beyond a maximum nesting level, or depth, by converting whatever object it finds beyond that depth to a string.

The default depth is 2, but you can specify that it should go deeper with the Depth parameter:

PS C:\> @{root=@{level1=@{level2=@("level3-1","level3-2")}}}|ConvertTo-Json
{
    "root":  {
        "level1":  {
            "level2":  "level3-1 level3-2"
        }
    }
}
PS C:\> @{root=@{level1=@{level2=@("level3-1","level3-2")}}}|ConvertTo-Json -Depth 3
{
    "root":  {
        "level1":  {
            "level2":  [
                "level3-1",
                "level3-2"
            ]
        }
    }
}