From ba1987655ffb330b823c6d13a7ab5c9675d5e67e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kirk <knickish@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 14:41:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] add serialization of unit type

---
 src/serde_bin.rs | 14 ++++++++++++++
 src/serde_ron.rs | 14 ++++++++++++++
 tests/ser_de.rs  |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/serde_bin.rs b/src/serde_bin.rs
index 5dfd76e..556541b 100644
--- a/src/serde_bin.rs
+++ b/src/serde_bin.rs
@@ -410,6 +410,20 @@ where
     }
 }
 
+impl SerBin for () {
+    #[inline(always)]
+    fn ser_bin(&self, _s: &mut Vec<u8>) {
+        // do nothing
+    }
+}
+
+impl DeBin for () {
+    #[inline(always)]
+    fn de_bin(_o: &mut usize, _d: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, DeBinErr> {
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
 impl<A, B> SerBin for (A, B)
 where
     A: SerBin,
diff --git a/src/serde_ron.rs b/src/serde_ron.rs
index 867d88d..c768545 100644
--- a/src/serde_ron.rs
+++ b/src/serde_ron.rs
@@ -1062,6 +1062,20 @@ where
     t
 }
 
+impl SerRon for () {
+    fn ser_ron(&self, _d: usize, s: &mut SerRonState) {
+        s.out.push_str("()");
+    }
+}
+
+impl DeRon for () {
+    fn de_ron(s: &mut DeRonState, i: &mut Chars) -> Result<(), DeRonErr> {
+        s.paren_open(i)?;
+        s.paren_close(i)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
 impl<A, B> SerRon for (A, B)
 where
     A: SerRon,
diff --git a/tests/ser_de.rs b/tests/ser_de.rs
index 860e3d4..34a9c09 100644
--- a/tests/ser_de.rs
+++ b/tests/ser_de.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ fn ser_de() {
         d: Option<String>,
         e: Option<HashMap<String, String>>,
         f: Option<([u32; 4], String)>,
+        g: (),
     }
 
     let mut map = HashMap::new();
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ fn ser_de() {
         d: None,
         e: Some(map),
         f: Some(([1, 2, 3, 4], "tuple".to_string())),
+        g: (),
     };
 
     let bytes = SerBin::serialize_bin(&test);

From 906c2b55c9e739d66b5eb3b2aabc37109f441786 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kirk <knickish@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 14:50:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] update json unit type serde impl to output valid json

---
 src/serde_json.rs | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/serde_json.rs b/src/serde_json.rs
index bdd7b2d..6bff6f3 100644
--- a/src/serde_json.rs
+++ b/src/serde_json.rs
@@ -748,15 +748,18 @@ where
 
 impl SerJson for () {
     fn ser_json(&self, _d: usize, s: &mut SerJsonState) {
-        s.out.push_str("")
+        s.out.push_str("null")
     }
 }
 
 impl DeJson for () {
     fn de_json(s: &mut DeJsonState, i: &mut Chars) -> Result<(), DeJsonErr> {
-        // skip ""
-        s.next_tok(i)?;
-        return Ok(());
+        if let DeJsonTok::Null = s.tok {
+            s.next_tok(i)?;
+            return Ok(());
+        } else {
+            return Err(s.err_token("null"));
+        }
     }
 }