Fix roundtrip inconsistency:

- deserialization of flatten unit variant is possible
- serialization of such variant gives Err("can only flatten structs and maps (got an enum)")

serde/src/private/ser.rs

@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ enum Unsupported {
     Sequence,
     Tuple,
     TupleStruct,
-    Enum,
 }
 
 impl Display for Unsupported {
@@ -74,7 +73,6 @@ impl Display for Unsupported {
             Unsupported::Sequence => formatter.write_str("a sequence"),
             Unsupported::Tuple => formatter.write_str("a tuple"),
             Unsupported::TupleStruct => formatter.write_str("a tuple struct"),
-            Unsupported::Enum => formatter.write_str("an enum"),
         }
     }
 }
@@ -1099,9 +1097,9 @@ where
         self,
         _: &'static str,
         _: u32,
-        _: &'static str,
+        variant: &'static str,
     ) -> Result<Self::Ok, Self::Error> {
-        Err(Self::bad_type(Unsupported::Enum))
+        self.0.serialize_entry(variant, &())
     }
 
     fn serialize_newtype_struct<T>(

test_suite/tests/test_annotations.rs

@@ -2912,11 +2912,46 @@ mod flatten {
 
             #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
             enum Enum {
+                Unit,
                 Newtype(HashMap<String, String>),
                 Tuple(u32, u32),
                 Struct { index: u32, value: u32 },
             }
 
+            #[test]
+            fn unit() {
+                let value = Flatten {
+                    data: Enum::Unit,
+                    extra: HashMap::from_iter([("extra_key".into(), "extra value".into())]),
+                };
+                assert_tokens(
+                    &value,
+                    &[
+                        Token::Map { len: None },
+                        // data
+                        Token::Str("Unit"), // variant
+                        Token::Unit,
+                        // extra
+                        Token::Str("extra_key"),
+                        Token::Str("extra value"),
+                        Token::MapEnd,
+                    ],
+                );
+                assert_de_tokens(
+                    &value,
+                    &[
+                        Token::Map { len: None },
+                        // extra
+                        Token::Str("extra_key"),
+                        Token::Str("extra value"),
+                        // data
+                        Token::Str("Unit"), // variant
+                        Token::Unit,
+                        Token::MapEnd,
+                    ],
+                );
+            }
+
             #[test]
             fn newtype() {
                 assert_tokens(