quicksilver

quicksilver is to facet what nanoserde is to serde

It is limited in scope and features. It doesn't have external dependencies. It has minimal compile time impact.

Demo

demo.mp4

Use cases

• serialization/deserialization roundtrip
• Adhoc UI Editors (see example folder)

Supported Types

Type	Status
u32, i32, f32	✅
u64, i64, f64	✅
usize, isize	✅
bool	✅
String	✅
Vec<T>	✅
HashMap<K,V>	✅
Option<T>	✅
custom struct	✅
custom C-Style enum	✅
Box<T>	✅
regular Rust enum	✅

Quicksilver can be derived for structs and repr(C) enums via #[derive(Quicksilver)].

If a container contains an unsupported type it can be skipped with the attribute #[quicksilver(skip)].

Limitations

• The json serializer/deserializer is not general purpose. It is only useable for roundtrips. It can't read arbitrary data. It just panics on error. Good enough for me, but maybe not for you.
• Since quicksilver builds on const cycles are not supported. You can't store a T inside a T, even transitively.
• Adding elements to a collection via the inspector is intended, but not yet fleshed out.

License

Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this crate by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.