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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

By : Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante
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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

By: Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante

Overview of this book

Mozilla’s Rust is gaining much attention with amazing features and a powerful library. This book will take you through varied recipes to teach you how to leverage the Standard library to implement efficient solutions. The book begins with a brief look at the basic modules of the Standard library and collections. From here, the recipes will cover packages that support file/directory handling and interaction through parsing. You will learn about packages related to advanced data structures, error handling, and networking. You will also learn to work with futures and experimental nightly features. The book also covers the most relevant external crates in Rust. By the end of the book, you will be proficient at using the Rust Standard library.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

How it works...

Notice how this recipe looks nearly identical to the last one? Except for the structures, the only significant difference is that we called serde_json::to_string() [81] instead of toml::to_string(), and serde_json::from_str() [96] instead of toml::from_str(). This is the beauty of a well-thought-out framework like Serde: the custom serialization and deserialization code are hidden behind trait definitions and we can use the same API without caring about internal implementation details.

Other than that, there is nothing to say that hasn't been said in the previous recipe, which is why we are not going to go over any other formats. All important formats support Serde, so you can use them the exact same way you use the other formats in this chapter. For a full list of all supported formats, see https://docs.serde.rs/serde/index.html.