POWERSHELL: Sorts a postman collection by names of folders and requests recursively

sort-postman-collection.bat

@rem bat file to ease use of powershell script

@%~d0
@cd "%~dp0"

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -file "%~dpn0.ps1" -Path "%~1"

@pause

sort-postman-collection.ps1

 [CmdletBinding()]
 Param (
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline = $true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true)]
	[string] $Path 
 )
Clear-Host

$file = [System.IO.FileInfo]::new($Path)
$outputFilePath = [IO.Path]::Combine($file.Directory, "$($file.BaseName)_sorted$($file.Extension)")

# Function to recursively sort a Postman collection by the 'name' property
function Sort-PostmanCollection($obj, $path) {
    $itemMember = Get-Member -InputObject $obj -Name "item"

    if ($itemMember) {
        Write-Output "Sorting $path"
        # Sort the 'item' array by 'name'
        $obj.item = $obj.item | Sort-Object -Property name
        # Recursively sort each item in the 'item' array
        foreach ($item in $obj.item) {
            Sort-PostmanCollection -obj $item -path "$path/$($item.name)"
        }
    }
    elseif ($obj -is [System.Collections.ArrayList] -or $obj -is [System.Object[]]) {
        foreach ($item in $obj) {
            Sort-PostmanCollection -obj $item -path "$path/$($item.name)"
        }
    }
}

# Read and parse the JSON file
$jsonContent = Get-Content -Path $file.FullName -Raw | ConvertFrom-Json 

# Sort the collection recursively
Sort-PostmanCollection -obj $jsonContent -path "."

# Save the sorted collection back to a file
$jsonContent | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 100 | Set-Content -Path $outputFilePath

Write-Output "`r`nCollection sorted and saved to $outputFilePath"