Add axum_extra::json!

axum-extra/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog],
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning].
 
+# Unreleased
+
+- **added:** Add `json!` for easy construction of JSON responses ([#2962]).
+
+[#2962]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/pull/2962
+
 # 0.10.0
 
 # alpha.1

axum-extra/Cargo.toml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ cookie = ["dep:cookie"]
 cookie-private = ["cookie", "cookie?/private"]
 cookie-signed = ["cookie", "cookie?/signed"]
 cookie-key-expansion = ["cookie", "cookie?/key-expansion"]
-erased-json = ["dep:serde_json"]
+erased-json = ["dep:serde_json", "dep:typed-json"]
 form = ["dep:serde_html_form"]
 json-deserializer = ["dep:serde_json", "dep:serde_path_to_error"]
 json-lines = [
@@ -69,9 +69,11 @@ tokio = { version = "1.19", optional = true }
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1.9", optional = true }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
 tracing = { version = "0.1.37", default-features = false, optional = true }
+typed-json = { version = "0.1.1", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-axum = { path = "../axum" }
+axum = { path = "../axum", features = ["macros"] }
+axum-macros = { path = "../axum-macros", features = ["__private"] }
 hyper = "1.0.0"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json", "stream", "multipart"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }

axum-extra/src/response/erased_json.rs

@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ use serde::Serialize;
 /// This allows returning a borrowing type from a handler, or returning different response
 /// types as JSON from different branches inside a handler.
 ///
+/// Like [`axum::Json`],
+/// if the [`Serialize`] implementation decides to fail
+/// or if a map with non-string keys is used,
+/// a 500 response will be issued
+/// whose body is the error message in UTF-8.
+///
+/// This can be constructed using [`new`](ErasedJson::new)
+/// or the [`json!`](crate::json) macro.
+///
 /// # Example
 ///
 /// ```rust
@@ -72,3 +81,65 @@ impl IntoResponse for ErasedJson {
         }
     }
 }
+
+/// Construct an [`ErasedJson`] response from a JSON literal.
+///
+/// A `Content-Type: application/json` header is automatically added.
+/// Any variable or expression implementing [`Serialize`]
+/// can be interpolated as a value in the literal.
+/// If the [`Serialize`] implementation decides to fail,
+/// or if a map with non-string keys is used,
+/// a 500 response will be issued
+/// whose body is the error message in UTF-8.
+///
+/// Internally,
+/// this function uses the [`typed_json::json!`] macro,
+/// allowing it to perform far fewer allocations
+/// than a dynamic macro like [`serde_json::json!`] would –
+/// it's equivalent to if you had just written
+/// `derive(Serialize)` on a struct.
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// ```
+/// use axum::{
+///     Router,
+///     extract::Path,
+///     response::Response,
+///     routing::get,
+/// };
+/// use axum_extra::response::ErasedJson;
+///
+/// async fn get_user(Path(user_id) : Path<u64>) -> ErasedJson {
+///     let user_name = find_user_name(user_id).await;
+///     axum_extra::json!({ "name": user_name })
+/// }
+///
+/// async fn find_user_name(user_id: u64) -> String {
+///     // ...
+///     # unimplemented!()
+/// }
+///
+/// let app = Router::new().route("/users/{id}", get(get_user));
+/// # let _: Router = app;
+/// ```
+///
+/// Trailing commas are allowed in both arrays and objects.
+///
+/// ```
+/// let response = axum_extra::json!(["trailing",]);
+/// ```
+#[macro_export]
+macro_rules! json {
+    ($($t:tt)*) => {
+        $crate::response::ErasedJson::new(
+            $crate::response::__private_erased_json::typed_json::json!($($t)*)
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+/// Not public API. Re-exported as `crate::response::__private_erased_json`.
+#[doc(hidden)]
+pub mod private {
+    pub use typed_json;
+}

axum-extra/src/response/mod.rs

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ pub mod multiple;
 #[cfg(feature = "erased-json")]
 pub use erased_json::ErasedJson;
 
+/// _not_ public API
+#[cfg(feature = "erased-json")]
+#[doc(hidden)]
+pub use erased_json::private as __private_erased_json;
+
 #[cfg(feature = "json-lines")]
 #[doc(no_inline)]
 pub use crate::json_lines::JsonLines;

axum/src/json.rs

@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ use serde::{de::DeserializeOwned, Serialize};
 /// When used as a response, it can serialize any type that implements [`serde::Serialize`] to
 /// `JSON`, and will automatically set `Content-Type: application/json` header.
 ///
+/// If the [`Serialize`] implementation decides to fail
+/// or if a map with non-string keys is used,
+/// a 500 response will be issued
+/// whose body is the error message in UTF-8.
+///
 /// # Response example
 ///
 /// ```