Unexpected ConvertTo-Json results? Answer: it has a default -Depth of 2

问题

Why do I get unexpected ConvertTo-Json results?
And why does a round-trip ($Json | ConvertFrom-Json | ConvertTo-Json) fail?

Meta issue

Stackoverflow has a good mechanism to prevent duplicate questions but as far as I can see there is no mechanism to prevent questions that have a duplicate cause.
Take this question as a an example: almost every week a new question
comes in with the same cause, yet it is often difficult to define it as a
duplicate because the question itself is just a slightly different.
Nevertheless, I wouldn't be surprised if this question/answer itself
ends up as a duplicate (or off-topic) but unfortunately stackoverflow
has no possibility to write an article to prevent other programmers from continuing writing questions caused by this “known” pitfall.

Duplicates

A few examples of similar questions with the same common cause:

Different

So, were does this “self-answered” question differ from the above duplicates?
It has the common cause in the title and with that it might better prevent repeating questions due to the same cause.

 
解答

Answer

ConvertTo-Json has a -Depth parameter:

Specifies how many levels of contained objects are included in the JSON representation.
The default value is 2.

Example

To do a full round-trip with a JSON file you need to increase the -Depth for the ConvertTo-Json cmdlet:

$Json | ConvertFrom-Json | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 9

TL;DR

Probably because ConvertTo-Json terminates branches that are deeper than the default -Depth (2) with a (.Net) full type name, programmers assume a bug or a cmdlet limitation and do not read the help or about.
Personally, I think a string with a simple ellipsis (three dots: …) at the end of the cut off branch, would have a clearer meaning (see also: Github issue: 8381)

Why?

This issue often ends up in another discussion as well: Why is the depth limited at all?

Some objects have circular references, meaning that a child object
could refer to a parent (or one of its grandparents) causing a
infinitive loop if it would be serialized to JSON.

Take for example the following hash table with a parent property that refers to the object itself:

$Test = @{Guid = New-Guid}
$Test.Parent = $Test

If you execute: $Test | ConvertTo-Json it will conveniently stop at a depth level of 2 by default:

{
"Guid": "a274d017-5188-4d91-b960-023c06159dcc",
"Parent": {
"Guid": "a274d017-5188-4d91-b960-023c06159dcc",
"Parent": {
"Guid": "a274d017-5188-4d91-b960-023c06159dcc",
"Parent": "System.Collections.Hashtable"
}
}
}

This is why it is not a good idea to automatically set the -Depth to a large amount.

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