Custom serialization
Serde's derive macro through #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
provides reasonable default serialization behavior for structs and enums and it
can be customized to some extent using attributes. For unusual
needs, Serde allows full customization of the serialization behavior by manually
implementing [Serialize
] and [Deserialize
] traits for your type.
The traits each have a single method:
# use serde::{Serializer, Deserializer};
#
pub trait Serialize {
fn serialize<S>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
where
S: Serializer;
}
pub trait Deserialize<'de>: Sized {
fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
where
D: Deserializer<'de>;
}
#
# fn main() {}
These methods are generic over the serialization format, represented by the
[Serializer
] and [Deserializer
] traits. For example there is one Serializer
type for JSON and a different one for Postcard.