ConvertTo-JSON for Powershell 2.0

ConvertTo-JSON.ps1

function Escape-JSONString($str){
	if ($str -eq $null) {return ""}
	$str = $str.ToString().Replace('"','\"').Replace('\','\\').Replace("`n",'\n').Replace("`r",'\r').Replace("`t",'\t')
	return $str;
}

function ConvertTo-JSON($maxDepth = 4,$forceArray = $false) {
	begin {
		$data = @()
	}
	process{
		$data += $_
	}
	
	end{
	
		if ($data.length -eq 1 -and $forceArray -eq $false) {
			$value = $data[0]
		} else {	
			$value = $data
		}

		if ($value -eq $null) {
			return "null"
		}

		

		$dataType = $value.GetType().Name
		
		switch -regex ($dataType) {
	            'String'  {
					return  "`"{0}`"" -f (Escape-JSONString $value )
				}
	            '(System\.)?DateTime'  {return  "`"{0:yyyy-MM-dd}T{0:HH:mm:ss}`"" -f $value}
	            'Int32|Double' {return  "$value"}
				'Boolean' {return  "$value".ToLower()}
	            '(System\.)?Object\[\]' { # array
					
					if ($maxDepth -le 0){return "`"$value`""}
					
					$jsonResult = ''
					foreach($elem in $value){
						#if ($elem -eq $null) {continue}
						if ($jsonResult.Length -gt 0) {$jsonResult +=', '}				
						$jsonResult += ($elem | ConvertTo-JSON -maxDepth ($maxDepth -1))
					}
					return "[" + $jsonResult + "]"
	            }
				'(System\.)?Hashtable' { # hashtable
					$jsonResult = ''
					foreach($key in $value.Keys){
						if ($jsonResult.Length -gt 0) {$jsonResult +=', '}
						$jsonResult += 
@"
	"{0}": {1}
"@ -f $key , ($value[$key] | ConvertTo-JSON -maxDepth ($maxDepth -1) )
					}
					return "{" + $jsonResult + "}"
				}
	            default { #object
					if ($maxDepth -le 0){return  "`"{0}`"" -f (Escape-JSONString $value)}
					
					return "{" +
						(($value | Get-Member -MemberType *property | % { 
@"
	"{0}": {1}
"@ -f $_.Name , ($value.($_.Name) | ConvertTo-JSON -maxDepth ($maxDepth -1) )			
					
					}) -join ', ') + "}"
	    		}
		}
	}
}
	
	
#"a" | ConvertTo-JSON
#dir \ | ConvertTo-JSON 
#(get-date) | ConvertTo-JSON
#(dir \)[0] | ConvertTo-JSON -maxDepth 1
#@{ "asd" = "sdfads" ; "a" = 2 } | ConvertTo-JSON

What license is this snippet available under?

does anyone know if there's a convertfrom-json implementation just like this one?

It seems to me that line 36 doesn't support enough numeric types. I prefer to remove lines 36 and 37 and insert these two lines at line 30, instead:

if ($value.GetType().Name -eq 'Boolean') {return "$value".ToLower()}
if ($value.GetType().IsPrimitive) {return "$value"}

This is crap. For a solution from a superior mind, see https://github.com/EliteLoser/ConvertTo-Json - but thanks for sharing.

Hello
how can i remove \t in json?
{\t"id": "63304D56-6A42-43DB-7670-B73FD8389E6", \t"type": "Hello"}