this is an extraction of my json File:

[
        {
        "UID":  "Name of UID OU",
        "Production":  "DistinguishedName of Production OU",
        "ProductionFolders":  [ 
                                "Name of Production Folder 1", 
                                "Name of Production Folder 2"
                              ],
        "ProductionFoldersDN":  [ 
                                  "DistinguishedName of Production Folder 1 ", 
                                  "DistinguishedName of Production Folder 2"

                                ],
        "ProductionSubfolders":  [
                                      "Name of ProductionSubfolder 1 ",
                                      "Name of ProductionSubfolder 2"
                                  ],
        "ProductionSubfoldersDN":  [
                                         "Distinguished Name of ProductionSubfolder 1",
                                         "DistinguishedName of Prodcution Subfolder 2"
                                   ]
        }
]

If there is only the "Production" entry in the json file and no "ProductionFolders" or "ProductionSubfolders" entry: add "Test=UID" to the AD-Attribute "description" of the Active Directory OU (if it does not already exists)

If there are also the "ProductionFolders" entries in the json file, but no "ProductionSubfolders" entries: only add "Test= name of the Production Folder" to the AD-Attribute "description" of every Production Folder OU (if it does not already exist)

If there are "ProductionSubfolders" entries in the json file: only add "Test=name of the Production Subfolder" to the AD-Attribute "description" of every Production Subfolder OU (if it does not already exist)

My approach:

$json = Get-Content "C:\prod.json" |ConvertFrom-JSON

$onlyProd = $item.UID

$Folders = $item.ProdcutionFolders

$Subfolders = $item.ProductionSubfolders


foreach($item in $json) {

    
    if ($item.ProductionFolders -eq $null -and $item.ProductionSubfolders -eq $null) {   ###only Production entry exists 

        $Prod = Get-ADOrganizationalUnit $item.Production -Properties description|Select-Object description
        if ($Prod.description -notlike "*Test*") {Set-ADObject -Identity $item.Production -Add @{description="Test=$onlyProd"}}
    }

    
    elseif ($item.ProductionSubfolders -ne $null) {    ###Production Subfolders entries exist 

        foreach (Entry in $item.ProductionSubfolders ???){
        $ProdSubFolders = Get-ADOrganizationalUnit $item.ProductionSubfoldersDN -Properties description|Select-Object description
        if ($ProdSubFolders.description -notlike "*Test*") {Set-ADObject -Identity $item.ProductionSubfoldersDN -Add @{description="Test=$Subfolders"}}}
    }

    elseif ($item.ProductionFolders -ne $null -and $item.ProductionSubfolders -eq $null) {   ###only ProductionFolders entries exists 

        foreach (Entry in $item.ProductionFolders ????) {
        $ProdFolders = Get-ADOrganizationalUnit $item.ProductionFoldersDN -Properties description|Select-Object description
        if ($ProdFolders.description -notlike "*Test*") {Set-ADObject -Identity $item.ProductionFoldersDN -Add @{description="Test=$Folders"}}}
    }

}

Can you please help me?

THANKS!!!

CodePudding user response：

if you want to test if the key "Production" exists, you could do that:

foreach ($item in $json)
{
    if (Get-Member -inputobject $item -name "Production" -Membertype Properties)
    {
       "key production exists";
        $item.Production;
    }
    else
    {
       "key production doesnt exist";
    }

    if (Get-Member -inputobject $item -name 'ProductionSubfolders' -Membertype Properties)
    {   
       foreach ($item1 in $item.ProductionSubfolders)
       {
          $item1;
       }
    }
}

you could use this syntax for all keys you are searching...

if you want to iterate over list:

if (Get-Member -inputobject $item -name 'ProductionSubfolders' -Membertype Properties)
{   
    foreach ($item1 in $item.ProductionSubfolders)
    {
        $item1;
    }
    # if you want to use for loop with index for example
    For ($i = 0; $i -lt $item.ProductionSubfolders.Count; $i  )
    {
        $item.ProductionSubfolders[$i];
        $item.ProductionFoldersDN[$i];
    }
}