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Rust Web Programming

You're reading from   Rust Web Programming A hands-on guide to developing, packaging, and deploying fully functional Rust web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234694
Length 666 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Maxwell Flitton Maxwell Flitton
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Getting Started with Rust Web Development FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: A Quick Introduction to Rust 3. Chapter 2: Designing Your Web Application in Rust 4. Part 2:Processing Data and Managing Displays
5. Chapter 3: Handling HTTP Requests 6. Chapter 4: Processing HTTP Requests 7. Chapter 5: Displaying Content in the Browser 8. Part 3:Data Persistence
9. Chapter 6: Data Persistence with PostgreSQL 10. Chapter 7: Managing User Sessions 11. Chapter 8: Building RESTful Services 12. Part 4:Testing and Deployment
13. Chapter 9: Testing Our Application Endpoints and Components 14. Chapter 10: Deploying Our Application on AWS 15. Chapter 11: Configuring HTTPS with NGINX on AWS 16. Part 5:Making Our Projects Flexible
17. Chapter 12: Recreating Our Application in Rocket 18. Chapter 13: Best Practices for a Clean Web App Repository 19. Part 6:Exploring Protocol Programming and Async Concepts with Low-Level Network Applications
20. Chapter 14: Exploring the Tokio Framework 21. Chapter 15: Accepting TCP Traffic with Tokio 22. Chapter 16: Building Protocols on Top of TCP 23. Chapter 17: Implementing Actors and Async with the Hyper Framework 24. Chapter 18: Queuing Tasks with Redis 25. Index 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using macros for JSON serialization  

When it comes to serializing data and returning it to the client, we can achieve this quickly with minimal code using the JSON from the Actix-web crate. We can demonstrate this by creating a GET view that returns all our to-do items in the views/to_do/get.rs file:

use actix_web::{web, Responder};
use serde_json::value::Value;
use serde_json::Map;
use crate::state::read_file;
pub async fn get() -> impl Responder {
    let state: Map<String, Value> = read_file("./state.json");
    return web::Json(state);
}

Here, we can see that we are merely reading the JSON from the JSON file and then returning the values from this wrapped in the web::Json function. It might make sense to just return Map<String, Value> from the JSON file directly, as it is a String and Value. However, the type of Map<String, Value> does not implement the Responder trait. We could update the function...

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