[AVRO-1618] Allow user to "clean up" unions into more conventional dicts in json encoding - ASF JIRA

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Type: Improvement
Status: Open
Priority: Major
Resolution: Unresolved
Affects Version/s: 1.7.7
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: python
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Description

In Avro's JSON encoding, unions are implemented in a tagged fashion; walking through this data structure is somewhat cumbersome. It would be good to have a way of "decoding" this tagged-union data structure into a more conventional dict where the union element is directly present without the tag.