Functions/ConvertTo-JwtPart.ps1

function ConvertTo-JwtPart
{
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Converts an object to a base 64 URL encoded compressed JSON string.
    .DESCRIPTION
        Converts an object to a base 64 URL encoded compressed JSON string. Useful when constructing a JWT header or payload from a InputObject prior to serialization.
    .PARAMETER InputObject
        Specifies the object to convert to a JWT part. Enter a variable that contains the object, or type a command or expression that gets the objects. You can also pipe an object to ConvertTo-JwtPart.
    .EXAMPLE
        $jwtHeader = @{typ="JWT";alg="HS256"}
        $encodedHeader = $jwtHeader | ConvertTo-JwtPart
 
        Constructs a JWT header from the hashtable defined in the $jwtHeader variable, serializes it to JSON, and base 64 URL encodes it.
    .EXAMPLE
        $header = @{typ="JWT";alg="HS256"}
        $payload = @{sub="someone.else@company.com";title="person"}
 
        $encodedHeader = $header | ConvertTo-JwtPart
        $encodedPayload = $payload | ConvertTo-JwtPart
 
        $jwtSansSignature = "{0}.{1}" -f $encodedHeader, $encodedPayload
 
        $hmacSignature = New-JwtHmacSignature -JsonWebToken $jwtSansSignature -Key "secret"
 
        $jwt = "{0}.{1}" -f $jwtSansSignature, $hmacSignature
 
        Constructs a header and payload from InputObjects, serializes and encodes them and obtains an HMAC signature from the resulting joined values.
    .INPUTS
        System.Object
    .OUTPUTS
        System.String
    .LINK
        New-JwtHmacSignature
        New-JsonWebToken
        Test-JsonWebToken
    #>

    [CmdletBinding()]
    [OutputType([System.String])]
    Param (
            [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,Position=0)]
            [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()][System.Object]$InputObject
    )
    BEGIN
    {
        $argumentExceptionMessage = "Unable to serialize and base64 URL encode passed InputObject."
        $ArgumentException = New-Object -TypeName ArgumentException -ArgumentList $argumentExceptionMessage
    }
    PROCESS
    {
        [string]$base64UrlEncodedString = ""
        try
        {
            $base64UrlEncodedString = $InputObject | ConvertTo-Json -Compress | ConvertTo-Base64UrlEncodedString
        }
        catch
        {
            Write-Error -Exception $ArgumentException -Category InvalidArgument -ErrorAction Stop
        }

        return $base64UrlEncodedString
    }
}