Chapter 7

Activity

Here is my solution:

Figure A.6 – One solution

Line 2 grabs the data in JSON format from the API and puts it in a variable. If we look at the $astronauts variable, we can see it has two key-value pairs, message and people. people contains an array of JSON objects, which themselves have two key-value pairs; name and craft. We can see this in the following figure:

Figure A.7 – Getting the JSON data

So, we know the data we need are in the $astronauts.people.name key-value pair. All we need to do now is display it in a pleasing manner. We covered how to use ConvertTo-Html in Chapter 6, PowerShell and Files – Reading, Writing, and Manipulating Data, and this is the way I’ve chosen.

On line 5, we set up a $params hashtable so we can splat all the parameters we need. I’ve chosen to include a CSS stylesheet that displays a lovely image, but that’s not necessary. This...