Read and deserialize key-value pair JSON into HashMap
- If we have a JSON file with arbitrary key-value pairs were all the keys are the same type and all the values are the same type then we can read them into a HashMap.
- In this case all the keys are strings and all the values are integers. (positive integers that can fit in u16).
- Centepide has between 15-191 pairs of leggs and the number of pairs is always odd. So there are no Centipedes with 100 leggs.
examples/json/deserialize-to-hashmap/data.json
{ "cat": 4, "chicken": 2, "spider": 8, "ant": 6, "centipede": 100, "snake": 0 }
leggs: {"ant": 6, "snake": 0, "centipede": 100, "spider": 8, "cat": 4, "chicken": 2} turbofish: {"spider": 8, "ant": 6, "centipede": 100, "chicken": 2, "snake": 0, "cat": 4}
examples/json/deserialize-to-hashmap/src/main.rs
use std::collections::HashMap; fn main() { let filename = "data.json"; let content = std::fs::read_to_string(filename).unwrap(); let leggs: HashMap<String, u32> = serde_json::from_str(&content).unwrap(); println!("leggs: {leggs:?}"); // doing the same using Turbofish let turbofish = serde_json::from_str::<HashMap<String, u32>>(&content).unwrap(); println!("turbofish: {turbofish:?}"); assert_eq!(leggs, turbofish); }