Specifies that object properties should be flattened into columns of their own. Otherwise, objects nested in arrays are returned as XML/JSON strings.

Data Type

bool

Default Value

true

Remarks

By default, nested objects are returned as XML/JSON strings. To flatten object properties into columns of their own, set FlattenObjects to true. The component generates the column name by concatenating the property name onto the object name with a dot.

For example, you can flatten the nested objects below at connection time:

[
     { "grade": "A", "score": 2 },
     { "grade": "A", "score": 6 },
     { "grade": "A", "score": 10 },
     { "grade": "A", "score": 9 },
     { "grade": "B", "score": 14 }
]

When FlattenObjects is set to true and FlattenArrays is set to 1, the preceding array is flattened into the following table:

Column Name	Column Value
grades.0.grade	A
grades.0.score	2