Customizing the output of serde-json

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I'm subprocessing to the hidutil command in my kb-remap crate. hidutil takes what is maybe JSON5 or some custom superset of JSON that supports hex literals as arguments. For example

hidutil property \
    --matching '{"VendorID":0x5ac,"ProductID":0x0342}' \
    --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000039,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x70000002a}]}'

Currently my program constructs these arguments by serializing a struct using serde_json. However, given that my program has functionality that allows you to inspect the command that will be subprocessed I would like to output the numbers in the JSON as hex literals.

Is this possible to do with serde and serde_json?

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I believe you can control the format to serialize using a custom Formatter. just be careful, because the default deserializer might not recognize your custom format, you might need to define your custom Visitor for deserialization at the same time.

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