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Create more Complex JSON Document

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Sample code to create the following JSON document:

    {  
        "Title": "The Cuckoo's Calling",  
        "Author": "Robert Galbraith",  
        "Genre": "classic crime novel",  
        "Detail": {  
            "Publisher": "Little Brown",  
            "Publication_Year": 2013,  
            "ISBN-13": 9781408704004,  
            "Language": "English",  
            "Pages": 494  
        },  
        "Price": [  
            {  
                "type": "Hardcover",  
                "price": 16.65  
            },  
            {  
                "type": "Kindle Edition",  
                "price": 7.00  
            }  
        ]  
    }  

PowerShell

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject

# The only reason for failure in the following lines of code would be an out-of-memory condition..

# An index value of -1 is used to append at the end.
$index = -1

$success = $json.AddStringAt(-1,"Title","The Cuckoo's Calling")
$success = $json.AddStringAt(-1,"Author","Robert Galbraith")
$success = $json.AddStringAt(-1,"Genre","classic crime novel")

# Let's create the Detail JSON object:
$detail = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.AppendObject2("Detail",$detail)

$success = $detail.AddStringAt(-1,"Publisher","Little Brown")
$success = $detail.AddIntAt(-1,"Publication_Year",2013)
$success = $detail.AddNumberAt(-1,"ISBN-13","9781408704004")
$success = $detail.AddStringAt(-1,"Language","English")
$success = $detail.AddIntAt(-1,"Pages",494)

# Add the array for Price
$aPrice = New-Object Chilkat.JsonArray
$json.AppendArray2("Price",$aPrice)

# Entry in aPrice will be a JSON object.

# Append a new/empty ojbect to the end of the aPrice array.
$priceObj = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject

$aPrice.AddObjectAt2(-1,$priceObj)
$success = $priceObj.AddStringAt(-1,"type","Hardcover")
$success = $priceObj.AddNumberAt(-1,"price","16.65")

$aPrice.AddObjectAt2(-1,$priceObj)
$success = $priceObj.AddStringAt(-1,"type","Kindle Edition")
$success = $priceObj.AddNumberAt(-1,"price","7.00")

$json.EmitCompact = $false
$($json.Emit())