[Rust] Idea: implement serde serialization (contributions welcome)

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https://serde.rs
https://serde.rs/custom-serialization.html

Questions for further research:

1. Is it possible?

2. Is it a good idea?

3. What's the best way to do it?

Contributions welcome on this!

[aardappel]

Can Serde support zero-copy style serialization?

[rw]

@aardappel I don't know yet.

[rw]

Probably a good fit for the object API, if/when it gets developed.

[CasperN]

FYI for anyone who comes across this issues, I'm working on the object API without use of Serde.

There is a mild conflict on the "source of truth" of the data type. Serde assumes its the rust type, while Flatbuffers uses the schema. I think the best fit for Serde would be Flexbuffers.

[tymcauley]

I noticed under the serde supported data formats, that there's a format with support for schemas: https://github.com/flavray/avro-rs

The code example on that repo's home page shows how they can parse a schema from a raw Rust string. I haven't explored the implementation, but it at least looks like this could be some interesting prior art, if someone gets around to exploring this.

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[CasperN]

Serde support was added with Flexbuffers. I recommend closing this issue

[rw]

@CasperN I made a PR to add your work to the serde ecosystem docs :-] serde-rs/serde#1840

[rw]

@CasperN Want to add some docs as @dtolnay requested in serde-rs/serde#1840 (review) ?