Module serde_json::value [−] [src]

The Value enum, a loosely typed way of representing any valid JSON value.

Constructing JSON

Serde JSON provides a json! macro to build serde_json::Value objects with very natural JSON syntax. In order to use this macro, serde_json needs to be imported with the #[macro_use] attribute.

#[macro_use]
extern crate serde_json;

fn main() {
    // The type of `john` is `serde_json::Value`
    let john = json!({
      "name": "John Doe",
      "age": 43,
      "phones": [
        "+44 1234567",
        "+44 2345678"
      ]
    });

    println!("first phone number: {}", john["phones"][0]);

    // Convert to a string of JSON and print it out
    println!("{}", john.to_string());
}

The Value::to_string() function converts a serde_json::Value into a String of JSON text.

One neat thing about the json! macro is that variables and expressions can be interpolated directly into the JSON value as you are building it. Serde will check at compile time that the value you are interpolating is able to be represented as JSON.

let full_name = "John Doe";
let age_last_year = 42;

// The type of `john` is `serde_json::Value`
let john = json!({
  "name": full_name,
  "age": age_last_year + 1,
  "phones": [
    format!("+44 {}", random_phone())
  ]
});

A string of JSON data can be parsed into a serde_json::Value by the serde_json::from_str function. There is also from_slice for parsing from a byte slice &[u8] and from_reader for parsing from any io::Read like a File or a TCP stream.

extern crate serde_json;

use serde_json::{Value, Error};

fn untyped_example() -> Result<(), Error> {
    // Some JSON input data as a &str. Maybe this comes from the user.
    let data = r#"{
                    "name": "John Doe",
                    "age": 43,
                    "phones": [
                      "+44 1234567",
                      "+44 2345678"
                    ]
                  }"#;

    // Parse the string of data into serde_json::Value.
    let v: Value = serde_json::from_str(data)?;

    // Access parts of the data by indexing with square brackets.
    println!("Please call {} at the number {}", v["name"], v["phones"][0]);

    Ok(())
}

from_value	Interpret a `serde_json::Value` as an instance of type `T`.
to_value	Convert a `T` into `serde_json::Value` which is an enum that can represent any valid JSON data.

Module serde_json::value [−] [src]

Constructing JSON

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