How to exclude non-valued object properties when converting to JSON in Powershell

Question

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:

• I have an

Answer 1

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"
}