How to get the name of a PsCustomObject? - powershell

Question

I have a Powershell-script which includes a lot of PsCustomObjects like this (names do not have a specific pattern):
$myObject1 = [PSCustomObject]#{
Name = 'Kevin'
State = 'Texas'
}
$myObject2 = [PSCustomObject]#{
Name = 'Peter'
Lastname = 'Fonda'
State = 'Florida'
}
Now I need to convert this programmatically into the following object-format to have a global hashtable:
$result = #{
'myObject1.Name' = 'Kevin'
'myObject1.State' = 'Texas'
'myObject2.Name' = 'Peter'
'myObject2.Lastname' = 'Fonda'
'myObject2.Sate' = 'Florida'
}
For this task I need a loop in which I can either read the name of each PsCustomOject or I need to specify the names of all object as a string-array and lookup the object-properties with the matching name.
The loop-constructor could look something like this:
$result = #{}
foreach($name in #('myObject1','myObject2')) {
$obj = myMissingFunction1 $name
foreach($p in $obj.PsObject.Properties) {
$result["$name.$($p.Name)"] = $p.Value
}
}
or this
$result = #{}
foreach($obj in #($myObject1, $myObject2)) {
$name = myMissingFunction2 $obj
foreach($p in $obj.PsObject.Properties) {
$result["$name.$($p.Name)"] = $p.Value
}
}
Unfortunately I cannot bring any of the two approaches to life. Can someone please help?

Answer 1

Here is how you could do it .
$Result = [Ordered]#{}
$index = 0
Foreach ($obj in $ArrayOfObject) {
foreach ($prop in ($obj | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty).Name) {
$Result."SomeObject$Index.$Prop" = $obj.$prop
}
$index += 1
}
Result
Name Value
---- -----
SomeObject0.Name Kevin
SomeObject0.State Texas
SomeObject1.Lastname Fonda
SomeObject1.Name Peter
SomeObject1.State Florida
Dataset used for this example
$ArrayOfObject = #(
[PSCustomObject]#{
Name = 'Kevin'
State = 'Texas'
}
[PSCustomObject]#{
Name = 'Peter'
Lastname = 'Fonda'
State = 'Florida'
}
)

Answer 2

Solved it finally. I completely forgot the "Get-Variable" function:
$result = #{}
foreach($name in #('myObject1','myObject2')) {
$obj = (Get-Variable $name).Value
foreach($p in $obj.PsObject.Properties) {
$result["$name.$($p.Name)"] = $p.Value
}
}