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Add an -AsArray switch to ConvertTo-Json to support unconditional conversion to a JSON array #6327
Description
Based on a suggestion by @AikenBM, welcomed by Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT):
Similar to how @(...) ensures treatment of any value as an array, it would be handy if an -AsArray switch could instruct ConvertTo-Json to treat its input as an [ultimately JSON] array, so you can guarantee that your pipeline input is treated as an array, even if it happens to be a single item only:
Wishful thinking:
> $in = 1; $in | ConvertTo-Json -AsArray
[
1
]
# scalar 1 was treated as an array
> $in = 1, 2; $in | ConvertTo-Json -AsArray
[
1,
2
]
# Input that already is an array is left as-isAwkward workaround, in the absence of -AsArray:
> $in = 1; , @($in) | ConvertTo-Json -AsArray
[
1
] Environment data
Written as of PowerShell Core v6.0.1
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[-]Add switch `-AsArray` to ConvertTo-Json to support unconditional conversion as an array[/-][+]Add an -AsArray switch to ConvertTo-Json to support unconditional conversion to a JSON array[/+]kalgiz commentedon Mar 20, 2018
Fix proposal in #6438.
kalgiz commentedon Mar 23, 2018
Fixed in #6438.