v0.5.0

Release Notes

Features

• Added support for optional deserialization:

  • New functions were introduced to handle Option<T> types during deserialization:
    • as_opt_bool – Returns Option<bool>.
    • as_opt_f64 – Returns Option<f64>.
    • as_opt_i64 – Returns Option<i64>.
    • as_opt_string – Returns Option<String>.
    • as_opt_u64 – Returns Option<u64>.

  These functions ensure that null values in the JSON input or deserialization errors are correctly deserialized into
  None,
  while valid values will
  return the appropriate Some(T).

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the existing deserialization functions did not handle Option<T> types, only direct types.
  Now,
  null values and errors are deserialized to None, making the handling of nulls more consistent with Serde's
  standard
  behavior.

Breaking Changes

• No breaking changes introduced in this version.

What's Changed

• Export as_opt_<type> helper functions by @rnag in #5

Full Changelog: v0.4.2...v0.5.0