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Rust Web Development with Rocket

By : Karuna Murti
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Rust Web Development with Rocket

By: Karuna Murti

Overview of this book

Looking for a fast, powerful, and intuitive framework to build web applications? This Rust book will help you kickstart your web development journey and take your Rust programming skills to the next level as you uncover the power of Rocket - a fast, flexible, and fun framework powered by Rust. Rust Web Development with Rocket wastes no time in getting you up to speed with what Rust is and how to use it. You’ll discover what makes it so productive and reliable, eventually mastering all of the concepts you need to play with the Rocket framework while developing a wide set of web development skills. Throughout this book, you'll be able to walk through a hands-on project, covering everything that goes into making advanced web applications, and get to grips with the ins and outs of Rocket development, including error handling, Rust vectors, and wrappers. You'll also learn how to use synchronous and asynchronous programming to improve application performance and make processing user content easy. By the end of the book, you'll have answers to all your questions about creating a web application using the Rust language and the Rocket web framework.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: An Introduction to the Rust Programming Language and the Rocket Web Framework
7
Part 2: An In-Depth Look at Rocket Web Application Development
14
Part 3: Finishing the Rust Web Application Development

Handling JSON

One of the common tasks of web applications is handling APIs. APIs can return a lot of different formats, but modern APIs have converged into two common formats: JSON and XML.

Building an endpoint that returns JSON is pretty simple in the Rocket web framework. For handling the request body in JSON format, we can use rocket::serde::json::Json<T> as a data guard. The generic T type must implement the serde::Deserialize trait or else the Rust compiler will refuse to compile.

For responding, we can do the same thing by responding with rocket::serde::json::Json<T>. The generic T type must only implement the serde::Serialize trait when used as a response.

Let's see an example of how to handle JSON requests and responses. We want to create a single API endpoint, /api/users. This endpoint can receive a JSON body similar to the structure of our_application::models::pagination::Pagination, as follows:

{"next":"2022-02-22T22:22:22.222222Z...