Serde path to error

Find out the path at which a deserialization error occurred. This crate provides a wrapper that works with any existing Serde Deserializer and exposes the chain of field names leading to the error.

[dependencies]
serde = "1.0"
serde_path_to_error = "0.1"

use serde::Deserialize;
use std::collections::BTreeMap as Map;

#[derive(Deserialize)]
struct Package {
    name: String,
    dependencies: Map<String, Dependency>,
}

#[derive(Deserialize)]
struct Dependency {
    version: String,
}

fn main() {
    let j = r#"{
        "name": "demo",
        "dependencies": {
            "serde": {
                "version": 1
            }
        }
    }"#;

    // Some Deserializer.
    let jd = &mut serde_json::Deserializer::from_str(j);

    let result: Result<Package, _> = serde_path_to_error::deserialize(jd);
    match result {
        Ok(_) => panic!("expected a type error"),
        Err(err) => {
            let path = err.path().to_string();
            assert_eq!(path, "dependencies.serde.version");
        }
    }
}

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