Use bincode derive macro if bincode is exported by dependency

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One of my crates (A) uses bincode. Another one (B) depends on this crate and uses bincode too. I'm trying to make crate B use bincode exported from crate A. It works fine with functions from bincode, but not with macros. bincode derive macros seem to expand to code which uses ::bincode::... instead of bincode::... for example. So it seems like I simply can’t use these macros without depending on bincode directly.

Is it really so or am I missing some possible workarounds?

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Note that bincode is unmaintained. That being said, you can change the ::bincode default import path via the #[bincode(crate = "::your_crate::bincode")] container attribute. E.g.:

#[derive(Encode, Decode, PartialEq, Debug)]
#[bincode(crate = "::your_crate::bincode")]
struct Entity {
    x: f32,
    y: f32,
}
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