alt Hacker NewsThe gotcha is what happens when TypeWithSomeSerialization is not something you’re using directly but is contained within SomeOtherTypeWithSomeSerialization which you are using directly. Then things get messy.
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bigfishrunning • today at 12:14 AM
In that case, wrap a reference maybe?
pub struct TypeWithDifferentSerialization(&TypeWithSomeSerialization)
We can't say with certainty how an unspecified in-the-future library might work, so I'm going to use serde as a stand-in.
You can implement `Serialize` for a wrapper type and still serialize `SomeOtherTypeWithSomeSerialization` (which might be used by the type being wrapper directly or indirectly) differently. It might not be derivable, of course, but "I don't want the default" sort of makes that a given.