Coverting hashtable with multiple objects to Json

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Good morning,
I am working on user termination script which ingests of csv file with
SamAccountName, HomeDirectory,Country (C)

For each of these items I am then checking the size of their directories, noting that and the earlier information in an ordered hash table and passing it to convertTo-json.

$Users = Import-Csv -LiteralPath c:\test\users.csv
Foreach ($User in $Users) {
$DATE = Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd"
$Username = $User.SamAccountName
$Hdrive = $User.HomeDirectory
$Filer = ($User.HomeDirectory.Split("\")[2]).ToUpper()
$Country = $User.Country
$HdriveSize = "{0:N2}" -f ((Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $Hdrive -Recurse | Measure-Object -Property length -sum).sum / "1$Unit")

$Properties = [psobject][ordered]@{
	'REMOVAL_DATE' = $Date; 
	'USERNAME' = $Username;
	'HOMEDIRECTORY' = $Hdrive;
	'HOMEDIRECTORY_SIZE' = $HdriveSize;
	'HOMEDIRECTORY_UNIT' = $Unit;
	'COUNTRY' = $Country;
}
$Properties# | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 2 | Out-File -Encoding ascii -Append "c:\Test\TerminatedUsers_$date.log"

The problem I have is when it outputs a hash of multiple users and converts to json it outputs as

{
“REMOVAL_DATE”: “2015-10-07”,
“USERNAME”: “quser1”,
“HOMEDIRECTORY”: “\\filer1\userq$\quser1”,
“HOMEDIRECTORY_SIZE”: “14.59”,
“HOMEDIRECTORY_UNIT”: “GB”,
“COUNTRY”: “US”
}
{
“REMOVAL_DATE”: “2015-10-07”,
“USERNAME”: “kuser2”,
“HOMEDIRECTORY”: “\\filer4\userk$\kuser2”,
“HOMEDIRECTORY_SIZE”: “2.49”,
“HOMEDIRECTORY_UNIT”: “GB”,
“COUNTRY”: “CA”
}

The two problems

  1. Homedirectory has additional backslashes it should be = \filer4\userk$\kuser2
  2. It isn’t separating the objects as it should. It should appear like
    [
    {
    “USERNAME”: “quser1”,
    “HOMEDIRECTORY”: “\filer1\userq$\quser1”,
    “HOMEDIRECTORY_SIZE”: “14.59”,
    “HOMEDIRECTORY_UNIT”: “GB”,
    “COUNTRY”: “US”
    },
    {
    “USERNAME”: “kuser2”,
    “HOMEDIRECTORY”: “\filer1\userk$\kuser2”,
    “HOMEDIRECTORY_SIZE”: “2.49”,
    “HOMEDIRECTORY_UNIT”: “GB”,
    “COUNTRY”: “CA”
    }
    ]

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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I believe the backslashes are correct. In JavaScript (and thus JSON), backslash is the escape character, and they need to be doubled up.

To treat the objects as an array, you need to pipe everything at once to ConvertTo-Json, instead of doing one object at a time inside the loop. Something like this:

$Users = Import-Csv -LiteralPath c:\test\users.csv

$objects = @(
    Foreach ($User in $Users) {
        $DATE = Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd"
        $Username = $User.SamAccountName
        $Hdrive = $User.HomeDirectory
        $Filer = ($User.HomeDirectory.Split("\")[2]).ToUpper()
        $Country = $User.Country
        $HdriveSize = "{0:N2}" -f ((Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $Hdrive -Recurse | Measure-Object -Property length -sum).sum / "1$Unit")
    
        [pscustomobject]@{
    	    'REMOVAL_DATE' = $Date; 
    	    'USERNAME' = $Username;
    	    'HOMEDIRECTORY' = $Hdrive;
    	    'HOMEDIRECTORY_SIZE' = $HdriveSize;
    	    'HOMEDIRECTORY_UNIT' = $Unit;
    	    'COUNTRY' = $Country;
        }
    }
)

$objects | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 2 | Out-File -Encoding ascii -Append "c:\Test\TerminatedUsers_$date.log"