glib: Add optional support for serialization and deserialization with serde

This feature is gated as `serde`

Supports both serialization and deserialization:
- glib::Bytes
- glib::GString (with in-place deserialization)

Supports serialization only:
- glib::ByteArray
- glib::GStr
- glib::StrV

Collection types are also supported  as long as the type parameters implement the necessary traits:
- glib::Slice<T: TransparentType + _>
- glib::PtrSlice<T: TransparentPtrType + _>
- glib::List<T: TransparentPtrType + _>
- glib::SList<T: TransparentPtrType + _>

Author: rmnscnce

.github/workflows/CI.yml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
           - { name: "cairo", features: "png,pdf,svg,ps,use_glib,v1_18,freetype,script,xcb,xlib,win32-surface", nightly: "--features 'png,pdf,svg,ps,use_glib,v1_18,freetype,script,xcb,xlib,win32-surface'", test_sys: true }
           - { name: "gdk-pixbuf", features: "v2_42", nightly: "--all-features", test_sys: true }
           - { name: "gio", features: "v2_74", nightly: "--all-features", test_sys: true }
-          - { name: "glib", features: "v2_74", nightly: "--all-features", test_sys: true }
+          - { name: "glib", features: "v2_74,serde", nightly: "--all-features", test_sys: true }
           - { name: "graphene", features: "", nightly: "", test_sys: true }
           - { name: "pango", features: "v1_50", nightly: "--all-features", test_sys: true }
           - { name: "pangocairo", features: "", nightly: "--all-features", test_sys: true }

.github/workflows/windows.yml

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
           - { name: "cairo", test: true, args: "--features png,pdf,svg,ps,use_glib,v1_16,freetype,script,win32-surface" }
           - { name: "gdk-pixbuf", test: true, args: "--features v2_42" }
           - { name: "gio", test: true, args: "--features v2_74" }
-          - { name: "glib", test: true, args: "--features v2_74" }
+          - { name: "glib", test: true, args: "--features v2_74,serde" }
           - { name: "glib-build-tools", test: false, args: "" }
           - { name: "graphene", test: false, args: "" }
           - { name: "pango", test: true, args: "--features v1_50" }
@@ -126,8 +126,15 @@ jobs:
         with:
           command: test
           args: --manifest-path ${{ matrix.conf.name }}/sys/Cargo.toml ${{ matrix.conf.args }}
-        if: matrix.conf.name != 'examples' && matrix.conf.name != 'glib-build-tools'
+        if: matrix.conf.name != 'examples' && matrix.conf.name != 'glib' && matrix.conf.name != 'glib-build-tools'
 
+      - name: test glib-sys
+        uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
+        with:
+          command: test
+          args: --manifest-path ${{ matrix.conf.name }}/sys/Cargo.toml --features v2_74
+        if: matrix.conf.name == 'glib'
+      
       - name: build
         uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
         with:

glib/Cargo.toml

@@ -35,12 +35,14 @@ smallvec = "1.0"
 thiserror = "1"
 gio_ffi = { package = "gio-sys", path = "../gio/sys", optional = true }
 memchr = "2.5.0"
+serde = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tempfile = "3"
 gir-format-check = "^0.1"
 trybuild2 = "1"
 criterion = "0.4.0"
+serde_json = "1.0"
 
 [features]
 default = ["gio"]
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@ log_macros = ["log"]
 dox = ["ffi/dox", "gobject_ffi/dox", "log_macros"]
 compiletests = []
 gio = ["gio_ffi"]
+serde = ["dep:serde"]
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 features = ["dox"]

glib/README.md

@@ -96,6 +96,16 @@ glib = "0.13"
 glib = { git = "https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core.git", package = "glib" }
 ```
 
+### Serialization with Serde
+
+If you want to serialize (and deserialize) some GLib types (e.g. `GString`) with Serde, you can enable the `serde` feature:
+
+```toml
+glib = { version = "0.18", features = ["serde"] }
+```
+
+This library implements serialization and deserialization as described in the `serde@^1.0` API.
+
 ## License
 
 __glib__ is available under the MIT License, please refer to it.

glib/src/lib.rs

@@ -213,6 +213,9 @@ pub use self::thread_pool::{ThreadHandle, ThreadPool};
 
 pub mod thread_guard;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "serde")]
+mod serde;
+
 // rustdoc-stripper-ignore-next
 /// This is the log domain used by the [`clone!`][crate::clone!] macro. If you want to use a custom
 /// logger (it prints to stdout by default), you can set your own logger using the corresponding