Saving a list of dictionary items creates empty XL file

[mkgn]

I am using XL Mapper version 5.2.352 with .Net core 5.

Since my data structure can contain varying number of columns I have those data arranged in a collection of dictionaries. A dictionary has data similar to below;

I assume the Keys of the dictionary will be taken as column headings and the values of each dictionary will be written as rows in the XL.

var mylist = new List<IDictionary<string, string>>();
//fill data to a new dictionary instance
var itemdict = new Dictionary.....
mylist.Add(itemdict);

....
xlMapper.Save(fileName, mylist); 

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When I do this as above it throws below exception;

System.Reflection.TargetParameterCountException Parameter count mismatch.

System.Reflection.TargetParameterCountException: Parameter count mismatch. at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.InvokeArgumentsCheck(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture) at System.Reflection.RuntimePropertyInfo.GetValue(Object obj, Object[] index) at Ganss.Excel.ColumnInfo.GetProperty(Object o) at Ganss.Excel.ExcelMapper.SetCell[T](Func3 valueConverter, T objInstance, ICell cell, ColumnInfo ci) at Ganss.Excel.ExcelMapper.SetCells(TypeMapper typeMapper, Dictionary2 columnsByIndex, Object o, IRow row, Func3 valueConverter) at Ganss.Excel.ExcelMapper.Save[T](Stream stream, ISheet sheet, IEnumerable1 objects, Func3 valueConverter) at Ganss.Excel.ExcelMapper.Save[T](Stream stream, IEnumerable1 objects, Int32 sheetIndex, Boolean xlsx, Func3 valueConverter) at Ganss.Excel.ExcelMapper.Save[T](String file, IEnumerable1 objects, Int32 sheetIndex, Boolean xlsx, Func`3 valueConverter)

However if I change my code to;

var mylist = new List<dynamic>(); //earlier it was of type IDictionary<string, string>
//fill data to a new dictionary instance
var itemdict = new Dictionary.....
mylist.Add(itemdict);

....
xlMapper.Save(fileName, mylist); 

Now it doesn't throw an exception, but nothing gets written to the file.

How can I get this done properly?

[mganss]

This use case isn't currently supported. The closest is support for dynamic objects so you could pass a list of ExpandoObject (which implements IDictionary<string, object>) to Save(). Still this necessitates that each object in the list has all keys, possibly with null values for the unused columns.