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How to deserializes into generic struct that includes element name #778
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The what is you need is to have a DOM element. I started investigating this in my dom branch (it is outdated, but I have rebased version on my home computer, I'll push it when I get home (~10h later). There are no changes in functionality in the rebased version, although). The second commit in that branch is a very early version of what should be done. Feel free to take it and finish the work. I planned to finish it, but not in the near future (there a many other improvements planned in the base |
In #383 author describes exactly this use case and said that it works. |
I'm trying to parse MaterialX files like this one. They include "node graphs" which are a list of different elements with quite similar attributes and child elements.
As I don't know what elements to expect up front (they can be defined by external definition files), my idea was to have a generic
Node
struct and deserialize into that and then process it at a later stage. This works -- but I lose access to the element name. Is there a way to add it in as a field, e.g. using#[serde(rename = "$element-name")]
?If you can point me at the right place I'd be happy to make a PR.
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