Dotliquid cannot bind property of an object inside an array - asp.net-core-2.0

Question

I have a .NET Core application that is using dotliquid. From the try online it looks like I can bind a property of an object that is inside an array. Like {{user.tasks[0].name}} where tasks is a collection of task object and name is property of the task.
I have JSON model that would be the input to the template. I don't know the JSON structure during the design time. So I am converting JSON string into ExpandoObject.
However, this does not work when I bind property of an object that is inside an array.
Demo NETFiddle
public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
// this does not work
var modelString = "{\"States\": [{\"Name\": \"Texas\",\"Code\": \"TX\"}, {\"Name\": \"New York\",\"Code\": \"NY\"}]}";
var template = "State Is:{{States[0].Name}}";
Render(modelString,template);
//this works
modelString = "{\"States\": [\"Texas\",\"New York\"]}";
template = "State Is:{{States[0]}}";
Render(modelString,template);
}
private static void Render(string modelString, string template)
{
var model = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ExpandoObject>(modelString);
var templateModel = Hash.FromDictionary(model);
var html = Template.Parse(template).Render(templateModel);
Console.WriteLine(html);
}
}

Answer 1

You should parse as Dictionary<string, IEnumerable<ExpandoObject>> but not ExpandoObject.
using System;
using DotLiquid;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Converters;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using System.Dynamic;
using System.Collections.Generic;
public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
// this does not work when binding a property of an object that is inside collection and when use dictionary
var modelString = "{\"States\": [{\"Name\": \"Texas\",\"Code\": \"TX\"}, {\"Name\": \"New York\",\"Code\": \"NY\"}]}";
var template = "State Is:{{Name}}";
RenderFromDictionary(modelString, template);
}
private static void RenderFromDictionary(string modelString, string template)
{
var Stats = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, IEnumerable<ExpandoObject>>>(modelString);
foreach (ExpandoObject expandoObject in Stats["States"])
{
var templateModel = Hash.FromDictionary(expandoObject);
var html = Template.Parse(template).Render(templateModel);
Console.WriteLine(html);
}
}
}
Test Result: