Organic way of having a normal Id in a record (Rust)?

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I know that SurrealDB uses Thing which is the table:id combination. Is there an organic way of preserving a normal Id? Or is there a way to get the id when deserializing?

Take this example

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct Person {
    id: String
    name: String
}

In my case, the ID is an autogenerated string by another API. I cannot store that in a field called Id because i would get deserialization errors, as SurrealDB stores that as Thing.

I could rename the field

struct Person {
    person_id: String,
    name: String
}

But then i have to fields that represent the same (id and person_id) but they are separated and unique, which means that I'll have to update both manually.

What's the best way of doing this?