How to Deserialize an ActiveModel ? and a request for Serialization examples

[VaZark]

I'm trying to implement a basic CRUD app and I'm a bit lost. I'm trying to create a REST API with Axum. I've been trying to use the Json(new_active_model). Is this not supported by Serde yet ?

 let new_task = task::ActiveModel {
        title: Set(payload.title),
        text: Set(payload.text),
        ..Default::default()
    }
    .save(conn)
    .await
    .expect("could not insert task");

    // this will be converted into a JSON response
    // with a status code of `201 Created`
    (StatusCode::CREATED, Json(new_task))

Regardless of the problem that I'm facing, It'd be nice if the examples and/or docs were updated showing how to serialize and deserialize entities/models, as well as, examples for REST APIs

[billy1624]

Hey @VaZark, you can check web API demo in the /examples folder. Example for Actix, Rocket and Poem (#446) are included

[VaZark]

hI @billy1624, I played with the examples but it seems like the underlying issue is the trait Serialize is not implemented for task::ActiveModel. (I generated the model with the sea-orm-cli generate entity)

So can the ActiveModel add support for Serialize? Or can I convert an ActiveModel to just a Model and just use derive Serialize on it?

I'm pretty new to rust so you can feel free to point out if I'm missing /misunderstanding something here

[billy1624]

If you want to get back the inserted / updated model in Model instead of ActiveModel. You can use insert / update method in sea-orm 0.5.x

[VaZark]

Thanks. Insert was what I needed to get it working. Is it not possible to make the ActiveModel support Serialize?

[billy1624]

Thanks. Insert was what I needed to get it working. Is it not possible to make the ActiveModel support Serialize?

Is there any reason you need to Serialize ActiveModel? I guess what you need is just getting POST data (Model without primary key attribute if it's insert) from end user and responding the saved Model

[VaZark]

Yup. That's what I ended up doing. I was trying to come up with ways to not write new types by hand for each table.

[billy1624]

Nice! Feel free to ping us if you got any other questions :)