Headers with Serde Deserialization

[teburd]

I created a similiar ticket for rust-csv, it would be nice to have a csv deserializer that can take advantage of csv headers to match up with struct members.

[tafia]

Sorry for the late answer.

First serde is not implemented (only rustc_serialize), because serde was slow and was breaking too much for my taste (when I looked into it).

Anyway, I'm not certain I understand your issue.
Does it mean storing the headers to know the field names and then ignoring the columns that are not affected to a field?
Can you provide a csv and what you're expecting exactly?

[teburd]

@tafia Sorry for the delayed reply, an example scenario might be... from GTFS data

stop_id,stop_name,trip_id
'0','Jackson','5'
'1','Monroe','5'
'2','Washington','5'

Which I'd then like to deserialize into a struct using (serde would be nice) like...

struct Stop {
   stop_id: String,
   stop_name: String,
   trip_id: String
}

fn deserialize_stops(...) -> Vec<Stop> {
   // some code here to deserialize each csv row directly to a Stop
}

Notably the ordering of columns shouldn't matter in determining which struct fields to use for each csv column, only the csv column header should be used to match in this case.