Liquid error: Object of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.Object]' cannot be converted to type 'System.String'

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Issue

Got below error while executing a Liquid map inside a Logic App.

Liquid error: Object of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.Object]' cannot 

be converted to type 'System.String'

Why It happened

In the Liquid map, I have mapped a property as below "type" : "{{item.extension}}"

However, in the input message the extension is coming as below "extension": [ "tif" ],

If you see, the input is in form of array/list/collection and am trying to map

it to the type property as a string(using double quotes). And this is what the error says - that it cannot convert list into string.

What to do

As the input coming is in the form of array (although it will always have a

single value), it needs to be specified that we need to assign the first

value from the array. In Liquid map we can make use of shorthand functions and here we will

use first shorthand function - which returns the first item of an array. "type" : "{{item.extension.first}}" That's it, with this expression the first value of the array will be assigned

to type.

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