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<details class="rustdoc-toggle top-doc" open><summary class="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><div class="docblock"><p>Generic data structure serialization framework.</p>
<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" class="section-header"><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&lt;K, V&gt;</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" class="section-header"><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/servo/bincode"><code>bincode</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" class="section-header"><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>&amp;T and &amp;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&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>Result&lt;T, E&gt;</li>
<li>PhantomData&lt;T&gt;</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Wrapper types</strong>:
<ul>
<li>Box&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>Cow&lt;’a, T&gt;</li>
<li>Cell&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>RefCell&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>Mutex&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>RwLock&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>Rc&lt;T&gt; <em>(if</em> features = [“rc”] <em>is enabled)</em></li>
<li>Arc&lt;T&gt; <em>(if</em> features = [“rc”] <em>is enabled)</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Collection types</strong>:
<ul>
<li>BTreeMap&lt;K, V&gt;</li>
<li>BTreeSet&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>BinaryHeap&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>HashMap&lt;K, V, H&gt;</li>
<li>HashSet&lt;T, H&gt;</li>
<li>LinkedList&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>VecDeque&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>Vec&lt;T&gt;</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&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>RangeInclusive&lt;T&gt;</li>
<li>Bound&lt;T&gt;</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"><code>pub use std::error::<a class="trait" href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/error/trait.Error.html" title="trait std::error::Error">Error</a> as StdError;</code></div><div class="item-right docblock-short"></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"><p>Helper type for implementing a <code>Serializer</code> that does not support
serializing one of the compound types.</p>
</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"><p>Trait used by <code>Serialize</code> implementations to generically construct
errors belonging to the <code>Serializer</code> against which they are
currently running.</p>
</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"><p>A <strong>data structure</strong> that can be serialized into any data format supported
by Serde.</p>
</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"><p>Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_map</code>.</p>
</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"><p>Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_seq</code>.</p>
</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"><p>Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_struct</code>.</p>
</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"><p>Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_struct_variant</code>.</p>
</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"><p>Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_tuple</code>.</p>
</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"><p>Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_tuple_struct</code>.</p>
</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"><p>Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_tuple_variant</code>.</p>
</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"><p>A <strong>data format</strong> that can serialize any data structure supported by Serde.</p>
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