Struct serde_json::Deserializer

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pub struct Deserializer<R> { /* private fields */ }
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A structure that deserializes JSON into Rust values.

Implementations

Create a JSON deserializer from one of the possible serde_json input sources.

Typically it is more convenient to use one of these methods instead:

  • Deserializer::from_str
  • Deserializer::from_slice
  • Deserializer::from_reader

Creates a JSON deserializer from an io::Read.

Reader-based deserializers do not support deserializing borrowed types like &str, since the std::io::Read trait has no non-copying methods – everything it does involves copying bytes out of the data source.

Creates a JSON deserializer from a &[u8].

Creates a JSON deserializer from a &str.

The Deserializer::end method should be called after a value has been fully deserialized. This allows the Deserializer to validate that the input stream is at the end or that it only has trailing whitespace.

Turn a JSON deserializer into an iterator over values of type T.

Parse arbitrarily deep JSON structures without any consideration for overflowing the stack.

You will want to provide some other way to protect against stack overflows, such as by wrapping your Deserializer in the dynamically growing stack adapter provided by the serde_stacker crate. Additionally you will need to be careful around other recursive operations on the parsed result which may overflow the stack after deserialization has completed, including, but not limited to, Display and Debug and Drop impls.

This method is only available if serde_json is built with the "unbounded_depth" feature.

Examples
use serde::Deserialize;
use serde_json::Value;

fn main() {
    let mut json = String::new();
    for _ in 0..10000 {
        json = format!("[{}]", json);
    }

    let mut deserializer = serde_json::Deserializer::from_str(&json);
    deserializer.disable_recursion_limit();
    let deserializer = serde_stacker::Deserializer::new(&mut deserializer);
    let value = Value::deserialize(deserializer).unwrap();

    carefully_drop_nested_arrays(value);
}

fn carefully_drop_nested_arrays(value: Value) {
    let mut stack = vec![value];
    while let Some(value) = stack.pop() {
        if let Value::Array(array) = value {
            stack.extend(array);
        }
    }
}

Trait Implementations

Parses a JSON string as bytes. Note that this function does not check whether the bytes represent a valid UTF-8 string.

The relevant part of the JSON specification is Section 8.2 of RFC 7159:

When all the strings represented in a JSON text are composed entirely of Unicode characters (however escaped), then that JSON text is interoperable in the sense that all software implementations that parse it will agree on the contents of names and of string values in objects and arrays.

However, the ABNF in this specification allows member names and string values to contain bit sequences that cannot encode Unicode characters; for example, “\uDEAD” (a single unpaired UTF-16 surrogate). Instances of this have been observed, for example, when a library truncates a UTF-16 string without checking whether the truncation split a surrogate pair. The behavior of software that receives JSON texts containing such values is unpredictable; for example, implementations might return different values for the length of a string value or even suffer fatal runtime exceptions.

The behavior of serde_json is specified to fail on non-UTF-8 strings when deserializing into Rust UTF-8 string types such as String, and succeed with non-UTF-8 bytes when deserializing using this method.

Escape sequences are processed as usual, and for \uXXXX escapes it is still checked if the hex number represents a valid Unicode code point.

Examples

You can use this to parse JSON strings containing invalid UTF-8 bytes, or unpaired surrogates.

use serde_bytes::ByteBuf;

fn look_at_bytes() -> Result<(), serde_json::Error> {
    let json_data = b"\"some bytes: \xe5\x00\xe5\"";
    let bytes: ByteBuf = serde_json::from_slice(json_data)?;

    assert_eq!(b'\xe5', bytes[12]);
    assert_eq!(b'\0', bytes[13]);
    assert_eq!(b'\xe5', bytes[14]);

    Ok(())
}

Backslash escape sequences like \n are still interpreted and required to be valid. \u escape sequences are required to represent a valid Unicode code point or lone surrogate.

use serde_bytes::ByteBuf;

fn look_at_bytes() -> Result<(), serde_json::Error> {
    let json_data = b"\"lone surrogate: \\uD801\"";
    let bytes: ByteBuf = serde_json::from_slice(json_data)?;
    let expected = b"lone surrogate: \xED\xA0\x81";
    assert_eq!(expected, bytes.as_slice());
    Ok(())
}

Parses a null as a None, and any other values as a Some(...).

Parses a newtype struct as the underlying value.

Parses an enum as an object like {"$KEY":$VALUE}, where $VALUE is either a straight value, a [..], or a {..}.

The error type that can be returned if some error occurs during deserialization. Read more

Require the Deserializer to figure out how to drive the visitor based on what data type is in the input. Read more

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a bool value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting an i8 value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting an i16 value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting an i32 value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting an i64 value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a u8 value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a u16 value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a u32 value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a u64 value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a f32 value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a f64 value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting an i128 value. Read more

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting an u128 value. Read more

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a char value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a string value and does not benefit from taking ownership of buffered data owned by the Deserializer. Read more

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a string value and would benefit from taking ownership of buffered data owned by the Deserializer. Read more

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a byte array and would benefit from taking ownership of buffered data owned by the Deserializer. Read more

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a unit value.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a unit struct with a particular name. Read more

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a sequence of values.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a sequence of values and knows how many values there are without looking at the serialized data. Read more

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a tuple struct with a particular name and number of fields. Read more

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a map of key-value pairs.

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting a struct with a particular name and fields. Read more

Hint that the Deserialize type is expecting the name of a struct field or the discriminant of an enum variant. Read more

Hint that the Deserialize type needs to deserialize a value whose type doesn’t matter because it is ignored. Read more

Determine whether Deserialize implementations should expect to deserialize their human-readable form. Read more

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Immutably borrows from an owned value. Read more

Mutably borrows from an owned value. Read more

Returns the argument unchanged.

Calls U::from(self).

That is, this conversion is whatever the implementation of From<T> for U chooses to do.

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.

Performs the conversion.

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.

Performs the conversion.