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Flatten Complex Json structure

See original GitHub issue

I have these line of code:

using (var r = new ChoJSONReader("data.json")
                         .Configure(c => c.ThrowAndStopOnMissingField = true)
                         .Configure(c => c.DefaultArrayHandling = true)
                         .Configure(c => c.FlattenNode = true)
                         .Configure(c => c.IgnoreArrayIndex = false)
                         .Configure(c => c.NestedKeySeparator = '.')
                         .Configure(c => c.NestedColumnSeparator = '.'))
            {
                var dt = r.AsDataTable();
                Console.WriteLine(dt.DumpAsJson());
            }

and my json:

{
  "BrandId": "998877665544332211",
  "Categories": [
    "112233445566778899"
  ],
  "Contact": {
    "Phone": [
      {
        "Value": "12346789",
        "Description": {
          "vi": "Phone"
        },
        "Type": 1
      },
      {
        "Value": "987654321",
        "Description": {
          "vi": "Phone"
        },
        "Type": 1
      }
    ]
  }
}

My expected output:

[
  {
    "BrandId": "998877665544332211",
    "Contact.Phone.Value": "12346789",
    "Contact.Phone.Description.vi": "Phone",
    "Contact.Phone.Type": 1,
    "Category": "112233445566778899"
  },
  {
    "BrandId": "998877665544332211",
    "Contact.Phone.Value": "987654321",
    "Contact.Phone.Description.vi": "Phone",
    "Contact.Phone.Type": 1,
    "Category": "112233445566778899"
  }
]

After running code, I got the output like this:

[
  {
    "BrandId": "998877665544332211",
    "Contact.Phone.0.Value": "12346789",
    "Contact.Phone.0.Description.vi": "Phone",
    "Contact.Phone.0.Type": 1,
    "Contact.Phone.1.Value": "987654321",
    "Contact.Phone.1.Description.vi": "Phone",
    "Contact.Phone.1.Type": 1,
    "Category0": "112233445566778899"
  }
]

Thanks for your interest in the question Looking forward to hearing from you @Cinchoo