How to deserialize a string field to bool

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I currently have a JSON string I am deserializing with serde_json.

{
  "foo": "<val>" // val can contain "SI" or "NO"
}

I would like to deserialize this to a bool using serde and a custom lookup that turns "SI" -> true and vice-versa.

#[derive(Deserialize)]
pub struct Entry {
   pub foo: bool, // How to express string to bool deserialization ?
}

How can I do that simply ?

1 Answers

You could use deserialize_with like so:

#[derive(Deserialize)]
pub struct Entry {
    #[serde(deserialize_with = "deserialize_bool")]
    pub foo: bool,
}

fn deserialize_bool<'de, D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<bool, D::Error>
where
    D: de::Deserializer<'de>,
{
    let s: &str = de::Deserialize::deserialize(deserializer)?;

    match s {
        "SI" => Ok(true),
        "NO" => Ok(false),
        _ => Err(de::Error::unknown_variant(s, &["SI", "NO"])),
    }
}

See: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=0ac9e89f97afc893197d37bc55dba188

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