I find lists hard to understand and work with, they are a ragged edge sparsely populated table you carry around, and are hard to query and store. JSON on the other hand is well behaved and amenable to querying, Python handling and storage. JSON can do everything lists can, so lets get rid of lists. In the short term a transformer that casts lists to JSON would work - with a way to inspect JSON values as pretty JSON!
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Cast list attributes to JSON
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Good idea. Should be pretty manageable in a PythonCaller, could be a nice little project for the FME Hub, for those inclined.
I'm voting for the JsonDumper, it should take the whole feature and dump it to a JSON string, lists and all, including nested lists.
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