Rust
Serde

introduzione

Struct ↔ JSON

main.rs

extern crate serde;
extern crate serde_json;

// Import this crate to derive the Serialize and Deserialize traits.
#[macro_use] extern crate serde_derive;

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
struct Point {
    x: i32,
    y: i32,
}

fn main() {
    let point = Point { x: 1, y: 2 };

    // Convert the Point to a packed JSON string. To convert it to
    // pretty JSON with indentation, use `to_string_pretty` instead.
    let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&point).unwrap();

    // Prints serialized = {"x":1,"y":2}
    println!("serialized = {}", serialized);

    // Convert the JSON string back to a Point.
    let deserialized: Point = serde_json::from_str(&serialized).unwrap();

    // Prints deserialized = Point { x: 1, y: 2 }
    println!("deserialized = {:?}", deserialized);
}

Cargo.toml

[package]
name = "serde-example"
version = "0.1.0"
build = "build.rs"

[dependencies]
serde = "0.9"
serde_json = "0.9"
serde_derive = "0.9"

Serializzare enum come stringa

extern crate serde;
extern crate serde_json;

macro_rules! enum_str {
    ($name:ident { $($variant:ident($str:expr), )* }) => {
        #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
        pub enum $name {
            $($variant,)*
        }

        impl ::serde::Serialize for $name {
            fn serialize<S>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
                where S: ::serde::Serializer,
            {
                // Serialize the enum as a string.
                serializer.serialize_str(match *self {
                    $( $name::$variant => $str, )*
                })
            }
        }

        impl ::serde::Deserialize for $name {
            fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
                where D: ::serde::Deserializer,
            {
                struct Visitor;

                impl ::serde::de::Visitor for Visitor {
                    type Value = $name;
                    
                    fn expecting(&self, formatter: &mut ::std::fmt::Formatter) -> ::std::fmt::Result {
                        write!(formatter, "a string for {}", stringify!($name))
                    }

                    fn visit_str<E>(self, value: &str) -> Result<$name, E>
                        where E: ::serde::de::Error,
                    {
                        match value {
                            $( $str => Ok($name::$variant), )*
                            _ => Err(E::invalid_value(::serde::de::Unexpected::Other(
                                &format!("unknown {} variant: {}", stringify!($name), value)
                            ), &self)),
                        }
                    }
                }

                // Deserialize the enum from a string.
                deserializer.deserialize_str(Visitor)
            }
        }
    }
}

enum_str!(LanguageCode {
    English("en"),
    Spanish("es"),
    Italian("it"),
    Japanese("ja"),
    Chinese("zh"),
});

fn main() {
    use LanguageCode::*;
    let languages = vec![English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese];

    // Prints ["en","es","it","ja","zh"]
    println!("{}", serde_json::to_string(&languages).unwrap());

    let input = r#" "ja" "#;
    assert_eq!(Japanese, serde_json::from_str(input).unwrap());
}

Serializzare i campi come camelCase

extern crate serde;
extern crate serde_json;
#[macro_use] extern crate serde_derive;

#[derive(Serialize)]
struct Person {
    #[serde(rename="firstName")]
    first_name: String,
    #[serde(rename="lastName")]
    last_name: String,
}

fn main() {
    let person = Person {
        first_name: "Joel".to_string(),
        last_name: "Spolsky".to_string(),
    };

    let json = serde_json::to_string_pretty(&person).unwrap();

    // Prints:
    //
    //    {
    //      "firstName": "Joel",
    //      "lastName": "Spolsky"
    //    }
    println!("{}", json);
}

Valore predefinito per campo

extern crate serde;
extern crate serde_json;
#[macro_use] extern crate serde_derive;

#[derive(Deserialize, Debug)]
struct Request {
    // Use the result of a function as the default if "resource" is
    // not included in the input.
    #[serde(default="default_resource")]
    resource: String,

    // Use the type's implementation of std::default::Default if
    // "timeout" is not included in the input.
    #[serde(default)]
    timeout: Timeout,

    // Use a method from the type as the default if "priority" is not
    // included in the input. This may also be a trait method.
    #[serde(default="Priority::lowest")]
    priority: Priority,
}

fn default_resource() -> String {
    "/".to_string()
}

/// Timeout in seconds.
#[derive(Deserialize, Debug)]
struct Timeout(u32);
impl Default for Timeout {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Timeout(30)
    }
}

#[derive(Deserialize, Debug)]
enum Priority { ExtraHigh, High, Normal, Low, ExtraLow }
impl Priority {
    fn lowest() -> Self { Priority::ExtraLow }
}

fn main() {
    let json = r#"
        [
          {
            "resource": "/users"
          },
          {
            "timeout": 5,
            "priority": "High"
          }
        ]
    "#;

    let requests: Vec<Request> = serde_json::from_str(json).unwrap();

    // The first request has resource="/users", timeout=30, priority=ExtraLow
    println!("{:?}", requests[0]);

    // The second request has resource="/", timeout=5, priority=High
    println!("{:?}", requests[1]);
}

Salta il campo di serializzazione

extern crate serde;
extern crate serde_json;
#[macro_use] extern crate serde_derive;

use std::collections::BTreeMap as Map;

#[derive(Serialize)]
struct Resource {
    // Always serialized.
    name: String,

    // Never serialized.
    #[serde(skip_serializing)]
    hash: String,

    // Use a method to decide whether the field should be skipped.
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if="Map::is_empty")]
    metadata: Map<String, String>,
}

fn main() {
    let resources = vec![
        Resource {
            name: "Stack Overflow".to_string(),
            hash: "b6469c3f31653d281bbbfa6f94d60fea130abe38".to_string(),
            metadata: Map::new(),
        },
        Resource {
            name: "GitHub".to_string(),
            hash: "5cb7a0c47e53854cd00e1a968de5abce1c124601".to_string(),
            metadata: {
                let mut metadata = Map::new();
                metadata.insert("headquarters".to_string(),
                                "San Francisco".to_string());
                metadata
            },
        },
    ];

    let json = serde_json::to_string_pretty(&resources).unwrap();

    // Prints:
    //
    //    [
    //      {
    //        "name": "Stack Overflow"
    //      },
    //      {
    //        "name": "GitHub",
    //        "metadata": {
    //          "headquarters": "San Francisco"
    //        }
    //      }
    //    ]
    println!("{}", json);
}

Implementa Serialize per un tipo di mappa personalizzato

impl<K, V> Serialize for MyMap<K, V>
    where K: Serialize,
          V: Serialize
{
    fn serialize<S>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
        where S: Serializer
    {
        let mut state = serializer.serialize_map(Some(self.len()))?;
        for (k, v) in self {
            state.serialize_entry(k, v)?;
        }
        state.end()
    }
}

Implementare Deserialize per un tipo di mappa personalizzato

// A Visitor is a type that holds methods that a Deserializer can drive
// depending on what is contained in the input data.
//
// In the case of a map we need generic type parameters K and V to be
// able to set the output type correctly, but don't require any state.
// This is an example of a "zero sized type" in Rust. The PhantomData
// keeps the compiler from complaining about unused generic type
// parameters.
struct MyMapVisitor<K, V> {
    marker: PhantomData<MyMap<K, V>>
}

impl<K, V> MyMapVisitor<K, V> {
    fn new() -> Self {
        MyMapVisitor {
            marker: PhantomData
        }
    }
}

// This is the trait that Deserializers are going to be driving. There
// is one method for each type of data that our type knows how to
// deserialize from. There are many other methods that are not
// implemented here, for example deserializing from integers or strings.
// By default those methods will return an error, which makes sense
// because we cannot deserialize a MyMap from an integer or string.
impl<K, V> de::Visitor for MyMapVisitor<K, V>
    where K: Deserialize,
          V: Deserialize
{
    // The type that our Visitor is going to produce.
    type Value = MyMap<K, V>;
    
    // Deserialize MyMap from an abstract "map" provided by the
    // Deserializer. The MapVisitor input is a callback provided by
    // the Deserializer to let us see each entry in the map.
    fn visit_map<M>(self, mut visitor: M) -> Result<Self::Value, M::Error>
        where M: de::MapVisitor
    {
        let mut values = MyMap::with_capacity(visitor.size_hint().0);

        // While there are entries remaining in the input, add them
        // into our map.
        while let Some((key, value)) = visitor.visit()? {
            values.insert(key, value);
        }

        Ok(values)
    }

    // As a convenience, provide a way to deserialize MyMap from
    // the abstract "unit" type. This corresponds to `null` in JSON.
    // If your JSON contains `null` for a field that is supposed to
    // be a MyMap, we interpret that as an empty map.
    fn visit_unit<E>(self) -> Result<Self::Value, E>
        where E: de::Error
    {
        Ok(MyMap::new())
    }

    // When an unexpected data type is encountered, this method will 
    // be invoked to inform the user what is actually expected.
    fn expecting(&self, formatter: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        write!(formatter, "a map or `null`")
    }
}

// This is the trait that informs Serde how to deserialize MyMap.
impl<K, V> Deserialize for MyMap<K, V>
    where K: Deserialize,
          V: Deserialize
{
    fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
        where D: Deserializer
    {
        // Instantiate our Visitor and ask the Deserializer to drive
        // it over the input data, resulting in an instance of MyMap.
        deserializer.deserialize_map(MyMapVisitor::new())
    }
}

Elabora una matrice di valori senza caricarli in un Vec

Supponiamo di avere una matrice di numeri interi e di voler calcolare il valore massimo senza tenere tutto l'array in memoria tutto in una volta. Questo approccio può essere adattato per gestire una varietà di altre situazioni in cui i dati devono essere elaborati durante la deserializzazione anziché dopo.

extern crate serde;
extern crate serde_json;
#[macro_use] extern crate serde_derive;
use serde::{de, Deserialize, Deserializer};

use std::cmp;
use std::fmt;
use std::marker::PhantomData;

#[derive(Deserialize)]
struct Outer {
    id: String,

    // Deserialize this field by computing the maximum value of a sequence
    // (JSON array) of values.
    #[serde(deserialize_with = "deserialize_max")]
    // Despite the struct field being named `max_value`, it is going to come
    // from a JSON field called `values`.
    #[serde(rename(deserialize = "values"))]
    max_value: u64,
}

/// Deserialize the maximum of a sequence of values. The entire sequence
/// is not buffered into memory as it would be if we deserialize to Vec<T>
/// and then compute the maximum later.
///
/// This function is generic over T which can be any type that implements
/// Ord. Above, it is used with T=u64.
fn deserialize_max<T, D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<T, D::Error>
    where T: Deserialize + Ord,
          D: Deserializer
{
    struct MaxVisitor<T>(PhantomData<T>);

    impl<T> de::Visitor for MaxVisitor<T>
        where T: Deserialize + Ord
    {
        /// Return type of this visitor. This visitor computes the max of a
        /// sequence of values of type T, so the type of the maximum is T.
        type Value = T;
        
        fn expecting(&self, formatter: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
            write!(formatter, "a sequence of numbers")
        }

        fn visit_seq<V>(self, mut visitor: V) -> Result<T, V::Error>
            where V: de::SeqVisitor
        {
            // Start with max equal to the first value in the seq.
            let mut max = match visitor.visit()? {
                Some(value) => value,
                None => {
                    // Cannot take the maximum of an empty seq.
                    let msg = "no values in seq when looking for maximum";
                    return Err(de::Error::custom(msg));
                }
            };

            // Update the max while there are additional values.
            while let Some(value) = visitor.visit()? {
                max = cmp::max(max, value);
            }

            Ok(max)
        }
    }

    // Create the visitor and ask the deserializer to drive it. The
    // deserializer will call visitor.visit_seq if a seq is present in
    // the input data.
    let visitor = MaxVisitor(PhantomData);
    deserializer.deserialize_seq(visitor)
}

fn main() {
    let j = r#"
        {
          "id": "demo-deserialize-max",
          "values": [
            256,
            100,
            384,
            314,
            271
          ]
        }
    "#;

    let out: Outer = serde_json::from_str(j).unwrap();

    // Prints "max value: 384"
    println!("max value: {}", out.max_value);
}

Limiti generici scritti a mano

Quando si derivano le implementazioni Serialize e Deserialize per le strutture con parametri di tipo generico, la maggior parte delle volte Serde è in grado di dedurre i limiti dei tratti corretti senza l'aiuto del programmatore. Usa diverse euristiche per indovinare il limite destro, ma soprattutto mette un limite di T: Serialize su ogni parametro di tipo T che fa parte di un campo serializzato e legato a T: Deserialize su ogni parametro di tipo T che fa parte di un campo deserializzato. Come con la maggior parte delle euristiche, questo non è sempre corretto e Serde fornisce un escape hatch per sostituire il limite generato automaticamente da uno scritto dal programmatore.

extern crate serde;
extern crate serde_json;
#[macro_use] extern crate serde_derive;

use serde::de::{self, Deserialize, Deserializer};

use std::fmt::Display;
use std::str::FromStr;

#[derive(Deserialize, Debug)]
struct Outer<'a, S, T: 'a + ?Sized> {
    // When deriving the Deserialize impl, Serde would want to generate a bound
    // `S: Deserialize` on the type of this field. But we are going to use the
    // type's `FromStr` impl instead of its `Deserialize` impl by going through
    // `deserialize_from_str`, so we override the automatically generated bound
    // by the one required for `deserialize_from_str`.
    #[serde(deserialize_with = "deserialize_from_str")]
    #[serde(bound(deserialize = "S: FromStr, S::Err: Display"))]
    s: S,

    // Here Serde would want to generate a bound `T: Deserialize`. That is a
    // stricter condition than is necessary. In fact, the `main` function below
    // uses T=str which does not implement Deserialize. We override the
    // automatically generated bound by a looser one.
    #[serde(bound(deserialize = "Ptr<'a, T>: Deserialize"))]
    ptr: Ptr<'a, T>,
}

/// Deserialize a type `S` by deserializing a string, then using the `FromStr`
/// impl of `S` to create the result. The generic type `S` is not required to
/// implement `Deserialize`.
fn deserialize_from_str<S, D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<S, D::Error>
    where S: FromStr,
          S::Err: Display,
          D: Deserializer
{
    let s: String = try!(Deserialize::deserialize(deserializer));
    S::from_str(&s).map_err(|e| de::Error::custom(e.to_string()))
}

/// A pointer to `T` which may or may not own the data. When deserializing we
/// always want to produce owned data.
#[derive(Debug)]
enum Ptr<'a, T: 'a + ?Sized> {
    Ref(&'a T),
    Owned(Box<T>),
}

impl<'a, T: 'a + ?Sized> Deserialize for Ptr<'a, T>
    where Box<T>: Deserialize
{
    fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
        where D: Deserializer
    {
        let box_t = try!(Deserialize::deserialize(deserializer));
        Ok(Ptr::Owned(box_t))
    }
}

fn main() {
    let j = r#"
        {
          "s": "1234567890",
          "ptr": "owned"
        }
    "#;

    let result: Outer<u64, str> = serde_json::from_str(j).unwrap();

    // result = Outer { s: 1234567890, ptr: Owned("owned") }
    println!("result = {:?}", result);
}

Implementare Serialize e Deserialize per un tipo in una cassa diversa

La regola della coerenza di Rust richiede che il tratto o il tipo per il quale si sta implementando il tratto sia definito nella stessa cassa di impl, quindi non è possibile implementare Serialize e Deserialize per un tipo in una cassa diversa direttamente. Il pattern newtype e la coercizione Deref forniscono un modo per implementare Serialize e Deserialize per un tipo che si comporta allo stesso modo di quello desiderato.

use serde::{Serialize, Serializer, Deserialize, Deserializer};
use std::ops::Deref;

// Pretend this module is from some other crate.
mod not_my_crate {
    pub struct Data { /* ... */ }
}

// This single-element tuple struct is called a newtype struct.
struct Data(not_my_crate::Data);

impl Serialize for Data {
    fn serialize<S>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
        where S: Serializer
    {
        // Any implementation of Serialize.
    }
}

impl Deserialize for Data {
    fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
        where D: Deserializer
    {
        // Any implementation of Deserialize.
    }
}

// Enable `Deref` coercion.
impl Deref for Data {
    type Target = not_my_crate::Data;
    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
        &self.0
    }
}

// Now `Data` can be used in ways that require it to implement
// Serialize and Deserialize.
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct Outer {
    id: u64,
    name: String,
    data: Data,
}