Connecting to JSON

Establishing a Connection shows how to authenticate to JSON and configure any necessary connection properties. You can also configure cmdlet capabilities through the available Connection properties, from data modeling to firewall traversal. The Advanced Settings section shows how to set up more advanced configurations and troubleshoot connection errors.

Connecting from PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets PowerShell Module for JSON provides a familiar way to interact with JSON from PowerShell. The cmdlets provide a standard PowerShell interface and an SQL interface to live data. The CData cmdlets enable you to work with JSON using standard PowerShell objects; you can chain the cmdlets to each other or other cmdlets in pipelines. The cmdlets also support PowerShell debug streams.

Data Manipulation with Cmdlets

See Establishing a Connection to learn how to get started with the Connect-JSON cmdlet. You can then pass the JSONConnection object returned to other cmdlets for accessing data:

• Select-JSON
• Add-JSON
• Update-JSON
• Remove-JSON

Executing SQL from PowerShell

You can execute any SQL query with the Invoke-JSON cmdlet.

Accessing Debug Output from Streams

See Capturing Errors and Logging to obtain the debug output through PowerShell streams.

PowerShell Version Support

The standard cmdlets are supported in PowerShell 2, 3, 4, and 5.

JSON Version Support

The cmdlet models local and remote JSON data sources as bidirectional tables. These can be local JSON files or remote JSON streams: RESTful APIs or file stores hosted on FTP servers or popular cloud storage providers. The cmdlet abstracts processing JSON data and connecting to the remote data: HTTP/FTP, SSL/TLS, and authentication: The major authentication schemes are supported, including HTTP Basic, Digest, FTP, NTLM, and OAuth.