AppFramework File Folder Bug? - readJsonFile and writeJsonFile methods do not allow top-level array in JSON data

Question

As far as I know it is perfectly valid for JSON data to contain a top-level array, for example:

'["cat","dog"]'

The JSON standards seem to allow this and if you pass that to JSON.parse you get an array.

However, the readJsonFile and writeJsonFile methods of File Folder do not seem to allow this. If you use writeJsonFile to serialize an array to a JSON file, you get a file with just "{}" and no data. When using readJsonFIle to read from a JSON file with a top level array, you do not get the data.

Here is a short POC to reproduce the issue:

import QtQuick 2.13
import QtQuick.Controls 2.13

import ArcGIS.AppFramework 1.0

App {
    id: app
    width: 400
    height: 640

FileFolder {
        id: folder
        path: "./data"
    }

Text {
        anchors.fill: parent

text: "{My App}"
        font.pointSize: 24
        color: "black"
        wrapMode: Text.WrapAtWordBoundaryOrAnywhere
        horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
        verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter
        elide: Text.ElideRight
    }

Component.onCompleted: {
        var data1 = ['cat', 'dog'];
        var data2 = {animals: ['cat', 'dog']}
        var okMake = folder.makeFolder();
        var okWrite = folder.writeJsonFile("data1.json", data1);  // This data will not be written to the JSON file
        var okWrite2 = folder.writeJsonFile("data2.json", data2)
    }
}

TrevorFrame · Accepted Answer

@JamesGough ,

You are correct that arrays can be used in JSON at the top level. This would be considered a JSONArray. However, the FileFolder functions writeJsonFile or readJson handle JSONObjects which expect {} at top level. You can use your code snippet above and change line 33 to this and it will work.

var okWrite = folder.writeJsonFile("data1.json", {data1});

Best,

Trevor