How to mock.patch a class imported in another module

I had the same problem and was able to solve it like this:

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Web.Extensions")        
$jsonserial= New-Object -TypeName System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer 
$jsonserial.MaxJsonLength  = 67108864
$Obj = $jsonserial.DeserializeObject($CourseTypesResponse)

You can use $jsonserial.MaxJsonLength to manipulate the MaxJsonLength property

source: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/833c99c1-d8eb-400d-bf58-38f7265b4b0e/error-when-converting-from-json?forum=winserverpowershell&prof=required

I had the same propblem when using Invoke-RestMethod and large JSON collections in the result. I ended up adapting the methods from Parsing json with PowerShell and Json.NET to convert JSON Collections to PowerShell Objects.

# .NET JSON Serializer 
$global:javaScriptSerializer = New-Object System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer
$global:javaScriptSerializer.MaxJsonLength = [System.Int32]::MaxValue
$global:javaScriptSerializer.RecursionLimit = 99

# Functions necessary to parse JSON output from .NET serializer to PowerShell Objects
function ParseItem($jsonItem) {
        if($jsonItem.PSObject.TypeNames -match "Array") {
                return ParseJsonArray($jsonItem)
        }
        elseif($jsonItem.PSObject.TypeNames -match "Dictionary") {
                return ParseJsonObject([HashTable]$jsonItem)
        }
        else {
                return $jsonItem
        }
}

function ParseJsonObject($jsonObj) {
        $result = New-Object -TypeName PSCustomObject
        foreach ($key in $jsonObj.Keys) {
                $item = $jsonObj[$key]
                if ($item) {
                        $parsedItem = ParseItem $item
                } else {
                        $parsedItem = $null
                }
                $result | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $key -Value $parsedItem
        }
        return $result
}

function ParseJsonArray($jsonArray) {
        $result = @()
        $jsonArray | ForEach-Object {
                $result += , (ParseItem $_)
        }
        return $result
}

function ParseJsonString($json) {
        $config = $javaScriptSerializer.DeserializeObject($json)
        return ParseJsonObject($config)
}

This one worked for me quite well over the years:

Add-Type -Assembly System.Web.Extensions

function get-Json($data) {
    $json = [System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer]::new()
    $json.MaxJsonLength = 104857600
    $out = $json.Deserialize($data, [System.Object])
    return $out
}