In RBD EGL generated to Java we cannot get a top level array in JSON to convert into an object

Many RESTful services return results with a top-level array. EGL does not support converting this JSON to record. (IBM Support case TS013710542 was opened on this issue with the recommendation following from IBM that and RFE be created.)

In EGL under versions 9.6.0 and 9.7.0, generated to Java, we are not able to get the ServiceLib.convertToJSON function to convert to an object array. Here is a simple example to illustrate our need:

record Person
  firstname string;
  lastname string;
end


program TestJSON type BasicProgram(parm1 int, parm2 string) {}

  function main()

  try
    // Just a Person, no array
    person1 Person;
    json1 string = "{ \"firstname\": \"Dan\", \"lastname\": \"Darnell\" }";
    ServiceLib.convertFromJSON(json1, person1);
    SysLib.writeStdout(person1.firstname + " " + person1.lastname); 

    // A Person inside a top-level array
    person2 Person[0];
    json2 string = "[{ \"firstname\": \"Dan\", \"lastname\": \"Darnell\" }]";
    ServiceLib.convertFromJSON(json2, person2);
    SysLib.writeStdout(person2[1].firstname + " " + person2[1].lastname);

  onException(aException AnyException)
    SysLib.writeStdout(aException.messageID + " " + aException.message);
  end
  end
end
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The first part, with just a Person object works fine and just as we expected it to.

The second part, where the JSON contains an array, doesn't map to our Person array.

Here is the output:
Dan Darnell
EGL1561E EGL1561E Service library JSON conversion functions operate on a Record or Dictionary. com.ads.woocommerce.Person[] is not a supported type.
EGL0002I The error occurred in TestJSON processing the main function.

Desired functionality:

The desired functionality is for the convertFromJSON function to handle top-level arrays when mapping to record parts.