At the moment, it's not "simple" to create a map using the API when you need to create numerous hosts . The API would be much nicer to use if I could just specify an array of objects of "type", being an elementtype;

i.e if I wanted to create a map with hostid "1001","1002", the API should allow me to specify these hostid's as an array. Because the API already asks for elementtype, maybe it could be;

    "method": "map.create",
    "params": {
        "name": "{{Name}}",
        "width": 1920,
        "height": 1080,
        "elements": [
            {
                "host": {
                	"hostid": ["1001","1002"],
			"iconid_off": "151"
		},
                "hostgroup": {
                	"groupid": ["101"],
	                "areatype": 0,
	                "elementsubtype": 1,
                }

 e.t.c

Basically I just want to be able to loop through an output for ids, create an array and then tell zabbix to create that array of hosts. I don't see a need to individually specify iconid in this use case.