powershell split into hashtable - powershell

Question

I'm trying to split string that i got from jira rest api, and i can't find a good way to do it.
API returns this kind of object
com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint#3b306c49[id=2792,rapidViewId=920,state=CLOSED,name=ABI
Reports/Support sprint
12,startDate=2018-09-11T09:45:26.622+02:00,endDate=2018-09-27T22:00:00.000+02:00,completeDate=2018-09-28T08:15:41.088+02:00,sequence=2792] com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint#c518022[id=2830,rapidViewId=920,state=ACTIVE,name=ABI
Reports/Support sprint
13,startDate=2018-09-28T08:30:26.785+02:00,endDate=2018-10-16T20:30:00.000+02:00,completeDate=,sequence=2830]
What I do with it is
$sprints = $issue.fields.customfield_10012 | Select-String -Pattern '\x5b(.*)\x5d' | ForEach-Object {$_.Matches.Groups[1].Value}
Where $issue.fields.customfield_10012 is the field returned from REST API
This gives me object striped of exesse data which i can convert to hash table using this
Foreach ($sprint in $sprints) {
Try {
#assign values to variable
$sprint = $sprint -split ',' | Out-String
$sprint = ConvertFrom-StringData -StringData $sprint
[int]$sId = $sprint.id
$sName = "N'" + $sprint.name.Replace("'", "''") + "'"
#insert into sql using Invoke-Sqlcmd
}
Catch {
#Write log msg into log table about error in Staging of the worklog for the ticket
$logMsg = "Staging sprint ($sId) for ticket ($key): $($_.Exception.Message)"
Write-Host $logMsg
}
}
But my users are creative and one of the sprint's name was "Sprint 11 - AS,SS,RS" - which breaks my -split ',' and convert to hash table.
Any idea how to split this string to proper hash table?
com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint#3b306c49[id=2792,rapidViewId=920,state=CLOSED,name=ABI
Reports/Support sprint
12,startDate=2018-09-11T09:45:26.622+02:00,endDate=2018-09-27T22:00:00.000+02:00,completeDate=2018-09-28T08:15:41.088+02:00,sequence=2792] com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint#c518022[id=2830,rapidViewId=920,state=ACTIVE,name=Sprint
11 -
AS,SS,RS,startDate=2018-09-28T08:30:26.785+02:00,endDate=2018-10-16T20:30:00.000+02:00,completeDate=,sequence=2830]

Answer 1

Split the string on commas followed by a word with an equal sign
Working with each of those records on their own line (if this does not match the source data you can still use the logic below) we do a match to split up the data inside the braces [] from that outside. Then we so a split on that internal data as discussed above, with a positive lookahead, to get the hashtables.
$lines = "com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint#3b306c49[id=2792,rapidViewId=920,state=CLOSED,name=ABI Reports/Support sprint 12,startDate=2018-09-11T09:45:26.622+02:00,endDate=2018-09-27T22:00:00.000+02:00,completeDate=2018-09-28T08:15:41.088+02:00,sequence=2792]",
"com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint#c518022[id=2830,rapidViewId=920,state=ACTIVE,name=Sprint 11 - AS,SS,RS,startDate=2018-09-28T08:30:26.785+02:00,endDate=2018-10-16T20:30:00.000+02:00,completeDate=,sequence=2830]"
$lines | Where-Object{$_ -match "^(?<sprintid>.*)\[(?<details>.*)\]"} | ForEach-Object{
$Matches.details -split ",(?=\w+=)" | Out-String | ConvertFrom-StringData
}
If we use the [pscustomobject] type accelerator when can get an object set right from that.
id : 2792
startDate : 2018-09-11T09:45:26.622+02:00
completeDate : 2018-09-28T08:15:41.088+02:00
sequence : 2792
name : ABI Reports/Support sprint 12
rapidViewId : 920
endDate : 2018-09-27T22:00:00.000+02:00
state : CLOSED
id : 2830
startDate : 2018-09-28T08:30:26.785+02:00
completeDate :
sequence : 2830
name : Sprint 11 - AS,SS,RS
rapidViewId : 920
endDate : 2018-10-16T20:30:00.000+02:00
state : ACTIVE
I have more experience with ConvertFrom-StringData however as TheIncorrigible1 mentions... ConvertFrom-String is also powerful and can reduce some legwork here.