Comparison with Serde

A side-by-side comparison of facet and serde derive macro attributes.

Container attributes

deny_unknown_fields

Produce an error when an unknown field is encountered during deserialization. The default behaviour is to ignore field that are not known.

Facet Serde 
#[derive(facet::Facet)]
#[facet(deny_unknown_fields)]
struct MyStruct {
    field1: i32,
    field2: Option<i32>,
}

#[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
struct MyStruct {
    field1: i32,
    field2: Option<i32>,
}

default

Only allowed for structs, not for enums. During deserialization, any fields that are missing from the input will be taken from the Default::default implementation of the struct. This is not possible for enums because they can only have a single Default implementation producing a single variant.

Facet Serde 
#[derive(facet::Facet)]
#[facet(default)]
struct MyStruct {
    field1: i32,
    field2: Option<i32>,
}

impl Default for MyStruct {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self {
            field1: 1,
            field2: Some(2),
        }
    }
}

#[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
#[serde(default)]
struct MyStruct {
    field1: i32,
    field2: Option<i32>,
}

impl Default for MyStruct {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self {
            field1: 1,
            field2: Some(2),
        }
    }
}

rename_all

Rename all fields at once using a casing convention. Supported values are

  • "PascalCase"
  • "camelCase"
  • "snake_case"
  • "SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE"
  • "kebab-case"
  • "SCREAMING-KEBAB-CASE"
Facet Serde 
#[derive(facet::Facet)]
#[facet(rename_all = "camelCase")]
struct MyStruct {
    field_one: i32,
}

#[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
struct MyStruct {
    field_one: i32,
}

Field attributes

skip_serializing

Skip this field during serialization.

Facet Serde 
#[derive(facet::Facet)]
struct MyStruct {
    field1: i32,
    #[facet(skip_serializing)]
    field2: String,
}

#[derive(serde::Serialize)]
struct MyStruct {
    field1: i32,
    #[serde(skip_serializing)]
    field2: String,
}

skip_serializing_if

Skip serializing this field when a condition is met. Typically used for Option fields when you want to omit the field entirely from serialized output when the value is None.

Facet Serde 
#[derive(facet::Facet)]
struct MyStruct {
    #[facet(skip_serializing_if = |n| n % 2 == 0)]
    field1: i32,
    #[facet(skip_serializing_if = Option::is_none)]
    field2: Option<i32>,
}

#[derive(serde::Serialize)]
struct MyStruct {
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = is_even)]
    field1: i32,
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    field2: Option<i32>,
}

fn is_even(n: i32) -> bool {
    n % 2 == 0
}

default

Use a specified function to provide a default value when deserializing if the field is missing from input. You can either use default alone to use Default::default() for the field, or provide an expression producing the default value.

Facet Serde 
#[derive(facet::Facet)]
struct MyStruct {
    field1: i32,
    #[facet(default)]
    field2: Vec<String>,
    #[facet(default = 42))]
    field3: i32,
    #[facet(default = rand::random())]
    field4: i32,
}

#[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
struct MyStruct {
    field1: i32,
    #[serde(default)]
    field2: Vec<String>,
    #[serde(default = "default_value")]
    field3: i32,
    #[serde(default = "rand::random")]
    field4: i32,
}

fn default_value() -> i32 {
    42
}