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| <p>The two most important traits in this module are <a href="../trait.Serialize.html"><code>Serialize</code></a> and |
| <a href="../trait.Serializer.html"><code>Serializer</code></a>.</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><strong>A type that implements <code>Serialize</code> is a data structure</strong> that can be |
| serialized to any data format supported by Serde, and conversely</li> |
| <li><strong>A type that implements <code>Serializer</code> is a data format</strong> that can |
| serialize any data structure supported by Serde.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h2 id="the-serialize-trait"><a href="#the-serialize-trait">The Serialize trait</a></h2> |
| <p>Serde provides <a href="../trait.Serialize.html"><code>Serialize</code></a> implementations for many Rust primitive and |
| standard library types. The complete list is below. All of these can be |
| serialized using Serde out of the box.</p> |
| <p>Additionally, Serde provides a procedural macro called <a href="https://crates.io/crates/serde_derive"><code>serde_derive</code></a> to |
| automatically generate <a href="../trait.Serialize.html"><code>Serialize</code></a> implementations for structs and enums |
| in your program. See the <a href="https://serde.rs/derive.html">derive section of the manual</a> for how to use this.</p> |
| <p>In rare cases it may be necessary to implement <a href="../trait.Serialize.html"><code>Serialize</code></a> manually for |
| some type in your program. See the <a href="https://serde.rs/impl-serialize.html">Implementing <code>Serialize</code></a> section of the |
| manual for more about this.</p> |
| <p>Third-party crates may provide <a href="../trait.Serialize.html"><code>Serialize</code></a> implementations for types that |
| they expose. For example the <a href="https://crates.io/crates/linked-hash-map"><code>linked-hash-map</code></a> crate provides a |
| <a href="https://docs.rs/linked-hash-map/*/linked_hash_map/struct.LinkedHashMap.html"><code>LinkedHashMap<K, V></code></a> type that is serializable by Serde because the crate |
| provides an implementation of <a href="../trait.Serialize.html"><code>Serialize</code></a> for it.</p> |
| <h2 id="the-serializer-trait"><a href="#the-serializer-trait">The Serializer trait</a></h2> |
| <p><a href="../trait.Serializer.html"><code>Serializer</code></a> implementations are provided by third-party crates, for |
| example <a href="https://github.com/serde-rs/json"><code>serde_json</code></a>, <a href="https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml"><code>serde_yaml</code></a> and <a href="https://github.com/jamesmunns/postcard"><code>postcard</code></a>.</p> |
| <p>A partial list of well-maintained formats is given on the <a href="https://serde.rs/#data-formats">Serde |
| website</a>.</p> |
| <h2 id="implementations-of-serialize-provided-by-serde"><a href="#implementations-of-serialize-provided-by-serde">Implementations of Serialize provided by Serde</a></h2> |
| <ul> |
| <li><strong>Primitive types</strong>: |
| <ul> |
| <li>bool</li> |
| <li>i8, i16, i32, i64, i128, isize</li> |
| <li>u8, u16, u32, u64, u128, usize</li> |
| <li>f32, f64</li> |
| <li>char</li> |
| <li>str</li> |
| <li>&T and &mut T</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li><strong>Compound types</strong>: |
| <ul> |
| <li>[T]</li> |
| <li>[T; 0] through [T; 32]</li> |
| <li>tuples up to size 16</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li><strong>Common standard library types</strong>: |
| <ul> |
| <li>String</li> |
| <li>Option<T></li> |
| <li>Result<T, E></li> |
| <li>PhantomData<T></li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li><strong>Wrapper types</strong>: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Box<T></li> |
| <li>Cow<’a, T></li> |
| <li>Cell<T></li> |
| <li>RefCell<T></li> |
| <li>Mutex<T></li> |
| <li>RwLock<T></li> |
| <li>Rc<T> <em>(if</em> features = [“rc”] <em>is enabled)</em></li> |
| <li>Arc<T> <em>(if</em> features = [“rc”] <em>is enabled)</em></li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li><strong>Collection types</strong>: |
| <ul> |
| <li>BTreeMap<K, V></li> |
| <li>BTreeSet<T></li> |
| <li>BinaryHeap<T></li> |
| <li>HashMap<K, V, H></li> |
| <li>HashSet<T, H></li> |
| <li>LinkedList<T></li> |
| <li>VecDeque<T></li> |
| <li>Vec<T></li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li><strong>FFI types</strong>: |
| <ul> |
| <li>CStr</li> |
| <li>CString</li> |
| <li>OsStr</li> |
| <li>OsString</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li><strong>Miscellaneous standard library types</strong>: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Duration</li> |
| <li>SystemTime</li> |
| <li>Path</li> |
| <li>PathBuf</li> |
| <li>Range<T></li> |
| <li>RangeInclusive<T></li> |
| <li>Bound<T></li> |
| <li>num::NonZero*</li> |
| <li><code>!</code> <em>(unstable)</em></li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li><strong>Net types</strong>: |
| <ul> |
| <li>IpAddr</li> |
| <li>Ipv4Addr</li> |
| <li>Ipv6Addr</li> |
| <li>SocketAddr</li> |
| <li>SocketAddrV4</li> |
| <li>SocketAddrV6</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div></details><h2 id="reexports" class="small-section-header"><a href="#reexports">Re-exports</a></h2><div class="item-table"><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left import-item" id="reexport.StdError"><code>pub use std::error::Error as StdError;</code></div></div></div><h2 id="structs" class="small-section-header"><a href="#structs">Structs</a></h2><div class="item-table"><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left module-item"><a class="struct" href="struct.Impossible.html" title="serde::ser::Impossible struct">Impossible</a></div><div class="item-right docblock-short">Helper type for implementing a <code>Serializer</code> that does not support |
| serializing one of the compound types.</div></div></div><h2 id="traits" class="small-section-header"><a href="#traits">Traits</a></h2><div class="item-table"><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left module-item"><a class="trait" href="trait.Error.html" title="serde::ser::Error trait">Error</a></div><div class="item-right docblock-short">Trait used by <code>Serialize</code> implementations to generically construct |
| errors belonging to the <code>Serializer</code> against which they are |
| currently running.</div></div><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left module-item"><a class="trait" href="trait.Serialize.html" title="serde::ser::Serialize trait">Serialize</a></div><div class="item-right docblock-short">A <strong>data structure</strong> that can be serialized into any data format supported |
| by Serde.</div></div><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left module-item"><a class="trait" href="trait.SerializeMap.html" title="serde::ser::SerializeMap trait">SerializeMap</a></div><div class="item-right docblock-short">Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_map</code>.</div></div><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left module-item"><a class="trait" href="trait.SerializeSeq.html" title="serde::ser::SerializeSeq trait">SerializeSeq</a></div><div class="item-right docblock-short">Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_seq</code>.</div></div><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left module-item"><a class="trait" href="trait.SerializeStruct.html" title="serde::ser::SerializeStruct trait">SerializeStruct</a></div><div class="item-right docblock-short">Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_struct</code>.</div></div><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left module-item"><a class="trait" href="trait.SerializeStructVariant.html" title="serde::ser::SerializeStructVariant trait">SerializeStructVariant</a></div><div class="item-right docblock-short">Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_struct_variant</code>.</div></div><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left module-item"><a class="trait" href="trait.SerializeTuple.html" title="serde::ser::SerializeTuple trait">SerializeTuple</a></div><div class="item-right docblock-short">Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_tuple</code>.</div></div><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left module-item"><a class="trait" href="trait.SerializeTupleStruct.html" title="serde::ser::SerializeTupleStruct trait">SerializeTupleStruct</a></div><div class="item-right docblock-short">Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_tuple_struct</code>.</div></div><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left module-item"><a class="trait" href="trait.SerializeTupleVariant.html" title="serde::ser::SerializeTupleVariant trait">SerializeTupleVariant</a></div><div class="item-right docblock-short">Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_tuple_variant</code>.</div></div><div class="item-row"><div class="item-left module-item"><a class="trait" href="trait.Serializer.html" title="serde::ser::Serializer trait">Serializer</a></div><div class="item-right docblock-short">A <strong>data format</strong> that can serialize any data structure supported by Serde.</div></div></div></section></div></main><div id="rustdoc-vars" data-root-path="../../" data-current-crate="serde" data-themes="ayu,dark,light" data-resource-suffix="" data-rustdoc-version="1.66.0-nightly (5c8bff74b 2022-10-21)" ></div></body></html> |
