Hey,
I seemed to recall this being reported earlier, it being discussed, and a
fix being created.
And indeed, a change was made to the serialization component to optionally
force the values to be objects rather than lists:
https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelSerialization/commit/83e999983149c…
Funnily enough this option is not used anywhere in the actual Wikibase
extensions, which means the behaviour is entirely unchanged. Looking at the
relevant code in the serializer [0], I do wonder why an option was added,
rather than simply always using an object. Is there a case where we want
objects when there are entries and a list when there are none? And if so,
should that really be the default behaviour?
[0]
https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelSerialization/blob/master/src/Seri…
Cheers
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