Empty ingredient list are objects and not array in the data dump

[PetiteEclipse]

Hello hello,

It's my first time here, please tell me if I'm doing anything wrong or if this should be posted somewhere else !

I've been trying to parse the Factorio data dumped with --dump-data for funny projects on my side, and it appears that empty arrays are dumped as json objects instead of arrays.
For example, the biter egg recipe:

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"ingredients":
{},

Or the fluid-unknown base-color:

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"base_color":
{},

Therefore, when attempting to parse it, I'm expecting an array and get hit with an invalid type.
Perhaps there is a --dump-data option I'm missing here ? Or there might be others reasons I'm unaware of to have it this way ?

Thanks in advance, and a lot of thanks for the game, cheers !
- Eclipse

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report. This is a duplicate of 109077