Creating a variable in PowerShell with complex value

Question

Hi Experts,

I would like to create a variable in PowerShell with value as below.

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Is it possible to create a variable which holds the value as below in PowerShell? Please suggests. If yes, Please show the syntax.
![105952-image.png][2]

Regards,
Jansi

Answer 1

Hi @jansi rani krishnan ,

could you please post the code as code and not as a screenshot.
It's really time consuming to write all the stuff from the screenshot. Copy&Paste is much easier.
Please try this:

 $a = '"RunbookId":"11212313",  
 "Parameters":"<Data><Parameter><Name>Urgency</Name><ID>{121242342342}</ID><Value>High</Value></Parameter></Data>"'  

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Yes. Depends on what you intend to do with it though as to how you do it. In most cases just use a hashtable in PS.

$JSONBody = @{ RunbookId = '1234'; Parameters = '<xml></xml>' }   
$JSONBody | Get-Member

However if you are really working with JSON then PS supports conversion to and from already. Normally you get JSON as a string from some API. PS can convert that string to a PS object.

# From some API
$json = '{ "RunbookId": "1234", "Parameters": "<xml></xml>" }'
$data = ConvertFrom-Json $json   
$data | Get-Member

Answer 3

Hi，

Please post your code using the Ctrl-K tool. You can try the ConvertFrom-Json cmdlet to convert the JSON string to a variable.

$JsonBody='  
{  
"ID": "e8d-a0c",  
"Parameter": "<Data><Name>{226-91c}</Name></Data>"  
}'  
$var = $JsonBody | ConvertFrom-Json  

Best Regards,
Ian Xue

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