vaadin-grid-filter path to use for Array of String

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Here is the code snippet of my situation

<vaadin-grid items="[[_someArray]
]">
  <vaadin-grid-column>
   
    <template class="header">
      <vaadin-grid-filter aria-label="Sample" path="" value="[[_filterName]
]">
        <input slot="filter" placeholder="Filter by Name" value="{{_filterName::input}}" focus-target>
      </vaadin-grid-filter>
    </template>
   
    <template>[[item]
]</template>
 
  </vaadin-grid-column>     
</vaadin-grid>

Where _someArray is just an array of string say [‘A’,‘B’,‘C’]

The table basically just list the array content out. From all the example I can find that vaadin-grid-filter need the _someArray to be an array of objects to be able search and filter on subproperties. Is there any way aroudn this? I need to keep the _someArray as it is as I need the selected-items to be an Array of strings to work with other modules in the stack else it might trickle the program in to a infinit event loop.

Thank you in advance.

G