>Parsing varying REST response in PowerShell

Question

I have a REST response which sets a variable as shown below:

PS H:> echo $response

Success

------- @{count=1; uri=https://server/results/Success}

I can also do:

PS H:> echo $response.Success.uri

https://server/results/Success

I need the uri. However it may possibly at times be on $response.Fail.uri or $response.Error.uri instead of $response.Success.uri

Must all the variants be check in PowerShell separately or is there a way to extract uri regardless of Fail, Response or Success ?

EDIT:

PS H:> Write-Host $response | fl * -f

@{Success=}

Take a look at the output using $response | fl * -f and see whether the uri is present on a top level. — Martin Brandl
– Martin Brandl, Commented Feb 3, 2017 at 11:14
So the answer is probably no. But if you give us access to the ressource we can check it. — Martin Brandl
– Martin Brandl, Commented Feb 3, 2017 at 11:34
It's not a public resource so (physically) unable to grant access. — dross
– dross, Commented Feb 3, 2017 at 11:43

gvee · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-03 12:21:22Z

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Try this:

$response | Select-Object -ExpandProperty "*" | Select-Object uri

This assumes a few things about your response structure, but might help steer you down the right path!

answered Feb 3, 2017 at 12:21

gvee

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