I'm trying to deserialize some JSON: {"id":1,"status":"Failed","cause":"Error"}
where the status can be one of "Executing", "Successful" or "Failed" my issue is that I only get a "cause" if the status is "Failed".
I don't want the cause to be an Option<String>
because I always get a cause if the status is "Failed" and I never get a cause if the status is "Executing" or "Successful". I would rather have somthing like:
use serde::Deserialize;
#[derive(Deserialize, Debug)]
struct Download {
id: i32,
status: Status,
}
#[derive(Deserialize, Debug)]
#[serde(tag = "status")]
enum Status {
Executing,
Successful,
Failed {
cause: String
},
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn status_from_executing() {
let s = r#"{"status":"Executing"}"#;
serde_json::from_str::<Status>(s).unwrap();
}
#[test]
fn status_from_succeeded() {
let s = r#"{"status":"Successful"}"#;
serde_json::from_str::<Status>(s).unwrap();
}
#[test]
fn status_from_failed() {
let s = r#"{"status":"Failed","cause":"Bad thing"}"#;
serde_json::from_str::<Status>(s).unwrap();
}
#[test]
fn download_from_executing() {
let s = r#"{"id":1,"status":"Executing"}"#;
serde_json::from_str::<Download>(s).unwrap();
}
#[test]
fn download_from_succeeded() {
let s = r#"{"id":1,"status":"Successful"}"#;
serde_json::from_str::<Download>(s).unwrap();
}
#[test]
fn download_from_failed() {
let s = r#"{"id":1,"status":"Failed","cause":"Bad thing"}"#;
serde_json::from_str::<Download>(s).unwrap();
}
}
In the snippit above, all of the status_from tests pass and the download_from tests fail. If I remove the #[serde(tag = "status")]
attribute from status then only download_from_executing and download_from_succeeded pass.
I only care about being able to deserialize the download struct.
I would like to find the right set of serde attributes to deserialize the download struct when I have a JSON body that has status "Failed" and a cause.
My Cargo.toml:
[package]
name = "example"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2018"
[dependencies]
serde = { version = "1.0.130", features = ["derive"] }
serde_json = "1.0.68"
You can use the #[serde(flatten)]
attribute on Download
:
#[derive(Deserialize, Debug)]
struct Download {
id: i32,
#[serde(flatten)]
status: Status,
}
This makes all of your tests pass: playground.