Powershell pscustomobject format-table new row instead of one line - powershell

Question

I have a very large JSON response for employees that I am trying to get into table format, export to CSV and eventually insert into SQL Server. I was able to determine how to get all of my variables from the json file, however now I am getting all of my values inserted on one row for each column instead of a new row for each employee.
Also, when I export to CSV the value turns into System.Object[].
$json1 = Invoke-webRequest -Uri $Workeruri -Certificate $cert -Headers $WorkerHeader | convertfrom-json
$table = [PSCustomObject] #{
associateOID = $json1.workers.associateOID
workerID = $json1.workers.workerID.idValue
GivenName = $json1.workers.person.legalName.givenName
MiddleName = $json1.workers.person.legalName.middleName
FamilyName1 = $json.workers.person.legalName.familyName1
} |format-table -autosize
$table | export-csv $filepath -NoTypeInformation
The columns are a small sample, there are actually probably 100 columns. However, my response returns like this:
associateOID workerID givenName
------------ -------- ---------
{1,2,3,4,5...} {a,b,c,d,e...} {Lebron James, Micheal Jordan, Steph Curry...}
I would like it to return:
associateOID workerID givenName
------------ -------- ---------
1 A Lebron James
2 B Micheal Jordan
3 C Steph Curry
Also, when exporting to CSV the response has the correct columns, but all columns return with: System.Object[].
Also, my fields that have ints and dates are not returning data. How can I fix that as well?
I have tried using sort-object, group-object, for-each loops. Nothing has worked.

Answer 1

you can try like this:
$json1 = Invoke-webRequest -Uri $Workeruri -Certificate $cert -Headers $WorkerHeader | ConvertFrom-Json
$table = $json1 | ForEach-Object {
[PSCustomObject] #{
associateOID = $_.workers.associateOID
workerID = $_.workers.workerID.idValue
GivenName = $_.workers.person.legalName.givenName
MiddleName = $_.workers.person.legalName.middleName
FamilyName1 = $_.workers.person.legalName.familyName1
}
}
$table | Export-Csv $filepath -NoTypeInformation
$table | Format-Table -AutoSize
Your snippet takes all the values for each column and stores them in a single object instead of iterating on the object collection converted from JSON.
Also, once you use Format-Table, data is formatted for display but not usable in the pipeline anymore. That's why I've separated display on screen and CSV export.

Answer 2

#sodawillow almost had it, assuming that json1.workers is the list of objects that contains your workers.
$json1 = Invoke-webRequest -Uri $Workeruri -Certificate $cert -Headers $WorkerHeader | ConvertFrom-Json
$table = $json1.workers | ForEach-Object {
[PSCustomObject] #{
associateOID = $_.associateOID
workerID = $_.workerID.idValue
GivenName = $_.person.legalName.givenName
MiddleName = $_.person.legalName.middleName
FamilyName1 = $_.person.legalName.familyName1
}
}
$table | Export-Csv $filepath -NoTypeInformation
$table | Format-Table -AutoSize