Change Library Search "Revisions" from Object to Array

[GItThatSparrow]

Following on standard Story syntax, here...

AS A User
I NEED TO easily deserialize JSON into Objects
SO THAT I do not need to write custom transformation code

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Overview

I want to deserialize the response from a command. Currently, the format of the response presents a problem when trying to create an array of objects.

Take this command, for example:

arduino-cli lib search yun --format=json

The response has the libraries > [n] > Releases property is an Object, not an Array, as seen here....

{
  "libraries":[
    {
      "Name":"SpacebrewYun",
      "Releases":{
        "1.0.0":{
          "Author":"Julio Terra",
          "Version":"1.0.0",
          /* ...additional properties */
        },
        "1.0.1":{
          "Author":"Julio Terra",
          "Version":"1.0.1",
          /* ...additional properties */
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Name":"Ubidots Arduino YUN",
      "Releases":{
        "2.0.0":{
          "Author":"Ubidots Devel Team \[email protected]\u003e",
          "Version":"2.0.0",
          /* ...additional properties */
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Ideally, for deserialization, the Releases property would be an Array, like this...

{
  "libraries":[
    {
      "Name":"SpacebrewYun",
      "Releases":[
        {
          "Author":"Julio Terra",
          "Version":"1.0.0",
          /* ...additional properties */
        },
        {
          "Author":"Julio Terra",
          "Version":"1.0.1",
          /* ...additional properties */
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "Name":"Ubidots Arduino YUN",
      "Releases":[
        {
          "Author":"Ubidots Devel Team \[email protected]\u003e",
          "Version":"2.0.0",
          /* ...additional properties */
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

[cmaglie]

AS A User
I NEED TO easily deserialize JSON into Objects
SO THAT I do not need to write custom transformation code

At the moment we need a map version -> release (the json output is actually taken directly from out internal structures), changing it to an array will force us to add transformation code...

But what's your use case? couldn't you iterate over a map and just ignore the keys?