Access JSON array via PowerShell - json

Question

I'm trying to access a JSON attribute which contains an array of strings, using PowerShell
JSON
{
"id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
"teamName": "Team A",
"securityGroups": [{
"name": "Security Group 1",
"members:": ["abc#mail.com", "def#mail.com", "ghi#mail.com"]
},
{
"name": "Securiy Group 2",
"members:": ["123#mail.com", "456#mail.com", "789#mail.com"]
}]
}
PowerShell
$json = Get-Content 'test.json' | ConvertFrom-Json
ForEach($group in $json.securityGroups)
{
Write-Host "Team: $($group.name)"
ForEach($member in $group.members)
{
Write-Host "Member: $($member)"
}
}
Output
Team: Security Group 1
Team: Securiy Group 2
As you can see, only the name of the security group (securityGroup.name) gets shown. I'm unable to access the securityGroups.members node, which contains an array of strings (containing emails). My goal is to store this list of strings and loop through them.
When I check to see how the $json object looks like in PS, I get the following:
PS C:\Users\XYZ> $json
id teamName securityGroups
-- -------- --------------
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Team A {#{name=Security Group 1; members:=System.Object[]}, #{name=Securiy Group 2; members:=System.Object[]}}
What am I missing here?

Answer 1

You can use this:
$json = Get-Content 'test.json' | ConvertFrom-Json
ForEach ($group in $json.securityGroups)
{
Write-Host "Team: $($group.name)"
ForEach ($member in $group."members:")
{
Write-Host "Member: $($member)"
}
}
You haven't noted that member key contains a colon at the end. Otherwise it will give you wrong result.