{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1599","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1599/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1599/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1599/events","html_url":"https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1599","id":261727170,"number":1599,"title":"DataArray to_dict() without converting with numpy tolist()","user":{"login":"nicain","id":113055,"avatar_url":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/113055?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain","html_url":"https://github.com/nicain","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":58766099,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/labels/API%20design","name":"API design","color":"84b6eb","default":false}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":8,"created_at":"2017-09-29T18:33:28Z","updated_at":"2017-10-02T21:35:50Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"NONE","body":"Enhancement:\r\nFollowing https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/432 and https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/917, I need to convert my DataArray to a dictionary, but do not need to fully-jsonize the data.  In fact, I would much prefer to get the data without using \"decode_numpy_dict_values\" to convert numpy to lists using tolist.\r\n\r\nIs this feature requested elsewhere, or was it intentionally not considered as a use-case?  If not, happy to contribute code."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/comments/333672308","html_url":"https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1599#issuecomment-333672308","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1599","id":333672308,"user":{"login":"nicain","id":113055,"avatar_url":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/113055?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain","html_url":"https://github.com/nicain","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicain/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2017-10-02T21:35:50Z","updated_at":"2017-10-02T21:35:50Z","author_association":"NONE","body":"Sweet, this is exactly what I am used to!  Ill give a shot to writing a few tests later today, and make a PR.  Can you suggest some core devs I can ping for a PR review?"}}
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