Format [pscustomobject] instances returned by Invoke-RestMethod or ConvertFrom-Json

Question

I am trying to create a table from a JSON file I am receiving from a RESTful API.

When I print the property of the json object I get an output like this:

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Answer 1

You need to add the parent keyname as a property Name to the nested objects:

$json.Object | ForEach-Object {
  foreach ($p in $_.PSObject.Properties) {
    $p.Value | Select-Object @{n='Name';e={$p.Name}},*
  }
}

Note that PowerShell will render the output in list form by default, since your objects have more than 4 properties. Pipe it through Format-List -AutoSize to get tabular output.