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Without testing your answer, I already appreciate how it brings attention to the problem of nested Maps. Even if you successfully convert this to JSON, any parsing done in the future has to have explicit awareness that the JSON was originally a Map and (even worse) that each sub-map (it contains) was also originally a map. Otherwise, there's no way to be sure that an array of pairs isn't just intended to be exactly that, instead of a Map. Hierarchies of objects and arrays do not carry this burden when parsed. Any proper serialization of Map would explicitly indicate that it is a Map.
– Lonnie Best
Commented Nov 30, 2019 at 6:53
More about that here.
– Lonnie Best
Commented Nov 30, 2019 at 9:06

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