List type object with single parameter is being converted into wrong format

martinblech / xmltodict

Python module that makes working with XML feel like you are working with JSON

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List type object with single parameter is being converted into wrong format #271

Closed mdakilansari closed 2 years ago

mdakilansari commented 3 years ago

Format is wrong after conversion of List object with single value.

example:

{ "name": "ParameterName", "p": "10638" }

Expected:

{ "name": "ParameterName", "p": ["10638"] }

Please look into this issue. Attaching Sample XML snip for reference.

Thank you in advance.

deridiot commented 2 years ago

as i stumbled over this as well let me point you and other people looking for this to the correct place:

https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict/blob/master/xmltodict.py#L266

set the force_list parameter on the parse method to either True to always return lists for all elements or provide a tuple with the tag names you do want as lists. works like a charm... just very much undocumented unless we consider the code documenting itself ;)