Derive Macro serde_with::SerializeDisplay

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#[derive(SerializeDisplay)]
{
    // Attributes available to this derive:
    #[serde_with]
}

Expand description

Serialize value by using it’s Display implementation

This is an alternative way to implement Serialize for types which also implement Display by serializing the type as string. Ensure that the struct/enum also implements Display. If the implementation is missing, you will get an error message like

error[E0277]: `Struct` doesn't implement `std::fmt::Display`

Deserialization with FromStr is available with the matching DeserializeFromStr derive.

Attributes

Attributes for the derive can be specified via the #[serde_with(...)] attribute on the struct or enum. Currently, these arguments to the attribute are possible:

#[serde_with(crate = "...")]: This allows using SerializeDisplay when serde_with is not available from the crate root. This happens while renaming dependencies in Cargo.toml or when re-exporting the macro from a different crate.

This argument is analogue to serde’s crate argument and the crate argument to serde_as.

Example

use std::fmt;

#[derive(SerializeDisplay)]
struct A {
    a: u32,
    b: bool,
}

impl fmt::Display for A {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        write!(f, "{}<>{}", self.a, self.b)
    }
}

let a = A { a: 123, b: false };
assert_eq!(r#""123<>false""#, serde_json::to_string(&a).unwrap());