Multiple sensors in one REST call - returned as an array

@nigelm wrote:

In Multiple sensors in one REST call the question was about handling data returned from a REST service as a JSON dictionary.

My problem relates to a service that returns its items as an array - which could be transformed to a dictionary (but unfortunately aren’t), so how would the documented bedoom1/bedroom2/bedroom3 sensor be configured if the returned JSON instead looked like this:-

[
    {
        "room": "bedroom1",
        "temperature": 14.98,
        "humidity": 53.68,
        "battery": 5.26,
        "timestamp": "2019-02-25T21:27:52Z"
    },
    {
        "room": "bedroom2",
        "temperature": 18.49,
        "humidity": 47.65,
        "battery": 5.08,
        "timestamp": "2019-02-25T21:27:26Z"
    },
    {
        "room": "bedroom3",
        "temperature": 18.14,
        "humidity": 48.16,
        "battery": 5.15,
        "timestamp": "2019-02-25T21:31:16Z"
    }
]

Is it possible to use the json_attributes or json_attributes_path to be able to end up with sets of attributes for bedroom1, bedroom2 and bedroom3.

For a real world application for this, the York Bin Collection API returns between 1 and 3 dictionaries for a property, each of which describes one type of bin collection - it is not specified (but appears to be generally consistant) what order the sets of bin collection data are returned in, which is why I would like to link it to one entry within the dictionary as an index.

An example of the sort of entry you may get is given below - for two sets of bins (for my own properly there are three sets, for a total of approx 3.5KB of JSON)

[
    {
        "AlternativeRoundNumber": null,
        "AlternativeRoundNumberDescription": null,
        "BinType": "GREY 240",
        "BinTypeDescription": "Grey Bin 240L",
        "CollectionAvailable": "Y",
        "CollectionCalendar": "?",
        "CollectionDay": "MON",
        "CollectionDayFull": "Monday",
        "CollectionDayOfWeek": 1,
        "CollectionFrequency": "Alternate Weeks",
        "CollectionFrequencyShort": "WEEK 1",
        "CollectionPoint": "FRONT",
        "CollectionPointDescription": "Edge of Property at Front",
        "CollectionPointLocation": null,
        "CollectionType": "GREY BIN/SACK",
        "CollectionTypeDescription": "Grey Bin/Black Sack Collection",
        "Frequency": {
            "ExcludeSunday": null,
            "FrequencyInDays": 14,
            "StartingWeekNumber": 2
        },
        "ImageName": "blackbin",
        "LastCollection": "/Date(1586732400000)/",
        "Locality": null,
        "MaterialsCollected": "General Domestic",
        "NextCollection": "/Date(1587942000000)/",
        "NumberOfBins": "1",
        "Postcode": "YO24 1NB",
        "PropertyName": null,
        "PropertyNumber": "10",
        "Provider": "City of York Council",
        "ProviderShort": "CYC",
        "RoundNumber": "TEAM 2",
        "RoundNumberDescription": "Team 2",
        "SaonName": null,
        "SaonNo": null,
        "ShortAddress": "10 LYCETT ROAD",
        "Street": "LYCETT ROAD",
        "UPRN": 100050567115,
        "Ward": "Dringhouses & Woodthorpe",
        "WasteType": "GREY BIN/SACK",
        "WasteTypeDescription": "Grey Bin/Black Sack Collection"
    },
    {
        "AlternativeRoundNumber": null,
        "AlternativeRoundNumberDescription": null,
        "BinType": "BOX 55",
        "BinTypeDescription": "Box 55L",
        "CollectionAvailable": "Y",
        "CollectionCalendar": "?",
        "CollectionDay": "WED",
        "CollectionDayFull": "Wednesday",
        "CollectionDayOfWeek": 3,
        "CollectionFrequency": "Alternate Weeks",
        "CollectionFrequencyShort": "WEEK 2",
        "CollectionPoint": "FRONT",
        "CollectionPointDescription": "Edge of Property at Front",
        "CollectionPointLocation": null,
        "CollectionType": "KERBSIDE",
        "CollectionTypeDescription": "Kerbside Collection",
        "Frequency": {
            "ExcludeSunday": null,
            "FrequencyInDays": 14,
            "StartingWeekNumber": 1
        },
        "ImageName": "box",
        "LastCollection": "/Date(1586300400000)/",
        "Locality": null,
        "MaterialsCollected": "Paper/Card : Plastic/Cans : Glass",
        "NextCollection": "/Date(1587510000000)/",
        "NumberOfBins": "3",
        "Postcode": "YO24 1NB",
        "PropertyName": null,
        "PropertyNumber": "10",
        "Provider": "City of York Council",
        "ProviderShort": "CYC",
        "RoundNumber": "B",
        "RoundNumberDescription": "Round B",
        "SaonName": null,
        "SaonNo": null,
        "ShortAddress": "10 LYCETT ROAD",
        "Street": "LYCETT ROAD",
        "UPRN": 100050567115,
        "Ward": "Dringhouses & Woodthorpe",
        "WasteType": "KERBSIDE",
        "WasteTypeDescription": "Kerbside Collection"
    }
]

I’d really like to grab everything as a single API call rather than hammering the API due to deficiencies in the data de-serialisation.

Thanks

Nigel.

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