Merging two json files into one? [duplicate] - json

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I have two .Json files I need to merge into one .Json file:
The first file start.json looks like this:
{
"MOUSE GESTURE L Start": {
"prefix": "MOUSE GESTURE L Start To Start",
"body": [
"MG_Start()"
],
"description": "Start Cursor back to its start"
}
}
The second file end.json looks like this:
{
"MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end": {
"prefix": "MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end",
"body": [
"MG_Move()"
],
"description": "Move Cursor back to its end"
}
}
The Expected out I am aiming for is:
{
"MOUSE GESTURE L Start": {
"prefix": "MOUSE GESTURE L Start To Start",
"body": [
"MG_Start()"
],
"description": "Start Cursor back to its start"
}
"MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end": {
"prefix": "MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end",
"body": [
"MG_Move()"
],
"description": "Move Cursor back to its end"
}
}
I have tried:
$Jstart = (Get-Content .\start.json -Raw) | ConvertFrom-Json
$JEnd = (Get-Content .\end.json -Raw) | ConvertFrom-Json
$Hash = [PSCustomObject]#{
$Jstart = (Get-Content .\start.json -Raw) | ConvertFrom-Json
$JEnd = (Get-Content .\end.json -Raw) | ConvertFrom-Json
}
but I get a undesired jumbled output:
{
"#{MOUSE GESTURE L Start=}": {
"MOUSE GESTURE L Start": {
"prefix": "MOUSE GESTURE L Start To Start",
"body": "MG_Start()",
"description": "Start Cursor back to its start"
}
},
"#{MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end=}": {
"MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end": {
"prefix": "MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end",
"body": "MG_Move()",
"description": "Move Cursor back to its end"
}
}
}
I've tried variations but things just get worse.
Any ideas on how I can get this right? Thank you
EDIT:
#Santiago Squarzon
While solution works for the example I provided, I am getting problems trying to adapt it to my code.
The prblem I am having is, if one of the .Json files happens to have more than one object in it, like this:
{
"MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end": {
"prefix": "MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end",
"body": [
"MG_Move()"
],
"description": "Move Cursor back to its end"
},
"Another Snippet": {
"prefix": "MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end",
"body": [
"MG_Move()"
],
"description": "Move Cursor back to its end"
}
}
Then $left.PSObject.Properties.Add($($right.PSObject.Properties)) failss, I get the error:
MethodException:
Cannot find an overload for "Add" and the argument count: "1".

Answer 1

Probably the easiest to go about this would be to append one object to the other:
$left = Get-Content .\start.json -Raw | ConvertFrom-Json
$right = Get-Content .\end.json -Raw | ConvertFrom-Json
foreach($prop in $right.PSObject.Properties) {
$left.PSObject.Properties.Add($prop)
}
$left | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 99
Resulting Json would look something like this:
{
"MOUSE GESTURE L Start": {
"prefix": "MOUSE GESTURE L Start To Start",
"body": [
"MG_Start()"
],
"description": "Start Cursor back to its start"
},
"MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end": {
"prefix": "MOUSE GESTURE L Move To end",
"body": [
"MG_Move()"
],
"description": "Move Cursor back to its end"
}
}