DataArray to_dict() without converting with numpy tolist() #1599
Description
Enhancement:
Following #432 and #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.
Is this feature requested elsewhere, or was it intentionally not considered as a use-case? If not, happy to contribute code.