A JSONtext example, ssumming all dictonary items are the same type:
Alternately, keep items in JSON format so they can be treated differently at a later step:
This idea, though it is a request for the reverse operation, illustrates how one can convert a cluster (in a variant) into an array-of-variants that contain the individual cluster elements. This did not exist when the OpenG Variant Tools were made, and OpenG is based on the (much slower) operation of manipulating flattened data.