Announcing serde-query

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https://crates.io/crates/serde-query

serde-query allows you to declaratively specify how to fetch the desired parts of a (potentially large) document with jq-like syntax and compiles it to an efficient serde::Deserialize implementation.

For example, you can extract only the commit messages from a GitHub API:

use serde_query::{DeserializeQuery, Query};

#[derive(DeserializeQuery)]
struct Message {
    #[query(".commit.message")]
    message: String,
}

fn main() {
    let reader = ureq::get("https://api.github.com/repos/pandaman64/serde-query/commits")
        .call()
        .into_reader();

    let messages: Vec<Query<Message>> = serde_json::from_reader(reader).unwrap();

    for message in messages.into_iter() {
        let message = Message::from(message);
        println!("{}", message.message);
    }
}

I implemented this just out of curiosity, though I hope this library will help when you need to deal with an external API or process a massive data file.
(crosspost from reddit)

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