V4 isArray will not parse single values as objects

[SpringsTea]

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Description

I had been working on a project with v3 and wanted to add order preservation. I updated to v4 to use isArray along side this, with my goal being to get a single array of mixed tags in the order they appear in the xml. Here is an example xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Report xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
 <ImageNode Name="Subjects Image">
    <Enabled>True</Enabled>
    <xPos>0.1875</xPos>
    <yPos>0.6146</yPos>
    <Width>0.7396</Width>
    <Height>1.0104001</Height>
    <Field>SubjectImage</Field>
  </ImageNode>
  <TextNode Name="Subjects First Name">
    <Enabled>True</Enabled>
    <xPos>0.9792</xPos>
    <yPos>0.7083</yPos>
    </EdgeText>
  </TextNode>
  <TextNode Name="Subjects Last Name">
    <Enabled>True</Enabled>
    <xPos>0.1771</xPos>
    <yPos>1.625</yPos>
  </TextNode>
</Report>

And my configuration:

const alwaysArray = [
    "TextNode",
    "ImageNode",
];

const xmloptions = {
    ignoreAttributes : false,
    ignoreNameSpace : false,
    allowBooleanAttributes : true,
    parseNodeValue : true,
    parseAttributeValue : true,
    trimValues: true,
    parseTrueNumberOnly: true,
    isArray: (name, jpath, isLeafNode, isAttribute) => { 
      if( alwaysArray.indexOf(name) !== -1) return true;
    },
    preserveOrder: true,
    stopNodes: ["parse-me-as-string"]
};

My expected output would be something like

[
 Report: [
    {
        ImageNode: {
            Enabled: true,
            xPos: 0.1875,
            yPos: 0.6146,
            Width: 0.7396,
            Height: 1.0104001,
            Field: 'Subject Image'
        }
    },
    {
        TextNode: {
            Enabled: true,
            xPos: 0.9792,
            yPos: 0.7083
        }
    },
    {
        TextNode: {
            Enabled: true,
            xPos: 0.1771,
            yPos: 1.625
        }
    }
 ]
]

But instead, all of children of ImageNode and TextNode are arrays, instead of objects.

{                                             
  TextNode: [                                 
    [Object], [Object],                       
    [Object]                             
  ],                                          
  ':@': { '@_Name': 'Subjects Barcode' }      
},                                            

When I was using V3, setting arrayMode to true would have all the child elements as single objects:

 {                                               
   '@_Name': 'Subjects Barcode',               
   Enabled: 'True',                                 
   xPos: 0.1771,                                 
   yPos: 1.7916
 },                                              

Even setting isArray to always return false, the children of TextNode will still be arrays. How can I achieve the array behavior I had in V3 in V4?

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[amitguptagwl]

@SpringsTea , If you want to preserve order, you should use probably preserveOrder property. Please check the docs. If you're facing issue while using isArray option. Let me check why it is not working for you.

[amitguptagwl]

This is working for me. I believe you're using some old version of FXP. please update and try again. Feel free to reopen the issue.