The following command at the moment of writing is supposed to return 8 objects describing GitHub repositories
Invoke-RestMethod https://api.github.com/users/nightroman/repos
There is an issue though. It looks like it gets objects as a not unrolled array.
This is not a problem if the result is cached in a local variable. But it may
be a problem if Invoke-RestMethod is used directly in a foreach loop. The
loop always performs a single iteration and the single item is the whole array
of objects. In contrast, if the cached result variable is used in foreach
then all items are processed one by one.
Scripts
- Test-1.Issue.ps1 shows the issue
- Test-2.Workaround.ps1 shows the workaround with a variable
- Test-3.Workaround.ps1 shows the workaround with parenthesis
- ConvertFrom-Json/Not-unrolled-result
- windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/301869-powershell/suggestions/11201622-invoke-restmethod-returns-an-unrolled-array