Transcode one format into another

The serde-transcode crate provides functionality to "transcode" from an arbitrary Serde Deserializer to an arbitrary Serde Serializer without needing to collect the entire input into an intermediate form in memory. This provides a fully general way to convert any self-describing Serde data format into any other Serde data format in a memory-efficient streaming way.

For example you could transcode a stream of JSON data into a stream of CBOR data, or transcode unformatted JSON into its pretty-printed form.

This example implements the equivalent of Go's json.Compact function which removes insignificant whitespace from a JSON string in a streaming way.

use std::io;

fn main() {
    // A JSON input with plenty of whitespace.
    let input = r#"
      {
        "a boolean": true,
        "an array": [3, 2, 1]
      }
    "#;

    // A JSON deserializer. You can use any Serde Deserializer here.
    let mut deserializer = serde_json::Deserializer::from_str(input);

    // A compacted JSON serializer. You can use any Serde Serializer here.
    let mut serializer = serde_json::Serializer::new(io::stdout());

    // Prints `{"a boolean":true,"an array":[3,2,1]}` to stdout.
    // This line works with any self-describing Deserializer and any Serializer.
    serde_transcode::transcode(&mut deserializer, &mut serializer).unwrap();
}