Merge pull request #652 from serde-rs/bbstr

Support deserializing ByteBuf from string

serde/src/bytes.rs

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ mod bytebuf {
     use de;
 
     #[cfg(feature = "collections")]
-    use collections::Vec;
+    use collections::{String, Vec};
 
     /// `ByteBuf` wraps a `Vec<u8>` and serializes as a byte array.
     #[derive(Clone, Default, Eq, Hash, PartialEq, PartialOrd, Ord)]
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ mod bytebuf {
         fn visit_bytes<E>(&mut self, v: &[u8]) -> Result<ByteBuf, E>
             where E: de::Error,
         {
-            self.visit_byte_buf(v.to_vec())
+            Ok(ByteBuf::from(v))
         }
 
         #[inline]
@@ -217,6 +217,18 @@ mod bytebuf {
         {
             Ok(ByteBuf::from(v))
         }
+
+        fn visit_str<E>(&mut self, v: &str) -> Result<ByteBuf, E>
+            where E: de::Error,
+        {
+            Ok(ByteBuf::from(v))
+        }
+
+        fn visit_string<E>(&mut self, v: String) -> Result<ByteBuf, E>
+            where E: de::Error,
+        {
+            Ok(ByteBuf::from(v))
+        }
     }
 
     impl de::Deserialize for ByteBuf {