Support for #[derive(Serialize)]

[LouisGariepy]

Discussed in #71

^{Originally posted by ianpurton May 26, 2022}
Would you consider adding the ability to tag the structs you create with #[derive(Serialize)]?

The reason for this is that in a lot of web frameworks you can convert structs to JSON as long as they are tagged with the Serde macro.

For example see how Axum handles it.

https://docs.rs/axum/latest/axum/struct.Json.html

perhaps an argument --derive '#[derive(serve::Serialize)]' or perhaps --struct-prefix

Thanks

[LouisGariepy]

For complex serialization processes involving serde(...) attributes, I'd rather have users utilize a type mapping, but for simple cases, deriving Serialize reduces unnecessary boilerplate significantly.

I believe all Cornucopia-supported types either do or could derive Serialize. Maybe we can add a --serialize flag for the CLI (and something similar for the API).

[LouisGariepy]

In the works...!