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//! Functions used by Serde to serialize types that we don't own (and thus can't implement
//! [Serialize] for)
use serde::Serializer;
/// Useful for types that implement [Error][std::error::Error] and don't need any special
/// treatment.
pub fn serialize_generic_error<S: Serializer, E: std::error::Error>(
error: &E,
serializer: S,
) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error> {
// I guess we'll have to see if it's more useful to store the debug representation of a
// foreign error type or something else (like maybe iterating its error chain into a
// list?)
let dbg = format!("{error:#?}");
serializer.serialize_str(&dbg)
}
/// Serialize [std::io::Error]
pub fn serialize_io_error<S: Serializer>(
error: &std::io::Error,
serializer: S,
) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error> {
serialize_generic_error(error, serializer)
}
/// Serialize [scroll::Error]
pub fn serialize_scroll_error<S: Serializer>(
error: &scroll::Error,
serializer: S,
) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error> {
serialize_generic_error(error, serializer)
}