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<main><divclass="width-limiter"><navclass="sub"><formclass="search-form"><span></span><divid="sidebar-button"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../../serde/all.html"title="show sidebar"></a></div><inputclass="search-input"name="search"aria-label="Run search in the documentation"autocomplete="off"spellcheck="false"placeholder="Click or press ‘S’ to search, ‘?’ for more options…"type="search"><divid="help-button"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../../help.html"title="help">?</a></div><divid="settings-menu"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../../settings.html"title="settings"><imgwidth="22"height="22"alt="Change settings"src="../../static.files/wheel-7b819b6101059cd0.svg"></a></div></form></nav><sectionid="main-content"class="content"><divclass="main-heading"><h1>Trait <ahref="../index.html">serde</a>::<wbr><ahref="index.html">de</a>::<wbr><aclass="trait"href="#">SeqAccess</a><buttonid="copy-path"title="Copy item path to clipboard"><imgsrc="../../static.files/clipboard-7571035ce49a181d.svg"width="19"height="18"alt="Copy item path"></button></h1><spanclass="out-of-band"><aclass="src"href="../../src/serde/de/mod.rs.html#1704-1736">source</a> · <buttonid="toggle-all-docs"title="collapse all docs">[<span>−</span>]</button></span></div><preclass="rust item-decl"><code>pub trait SeqAccess<'de> {
type <ahref="#associatedtype.Error"class="associatedtype">Error</a>: <aclass="trait"href="trait.Error.html"title="trait serde::de::Error">Error</a>;
}</code></pre><detailsclass="toggle top-doc"open><summaryclass="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Provides a <code>Visitor</code> access to each element of a sequence in the input.</p>
<p>This is a trait that a <code>Deserializer</code> passes to a <code>Visitor</code> implementation,
<p>The <ahref="https://serde.rs/data-format.html">example data format</a> presented on the website demonstrates an
implementation of <code>SeqAccess</code> for a basic JSON data format.</p>
</div></details><h2id="required-associated-types"class="section-header">Required Associated Types<ahref="#required-associated-types"class="anchor">§</a></h2><divclass="methods"><detailsclass="toggle"open><summary><sectionid="associatedtype.Error"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/serde/de/mod.rs.html#1707">source</a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="#associatedtype.Error"class="associatedtype">Error</a>: <aclass="trait"href="trait.Error.html"title="trait serde::de::Error">Error</a></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>The error type that can be returned if some error occurs during
T: <aclass="trait"href="trait.DeserializeSeed.html"title="trait serde::de::DeserializeSeed">DeserializeSeed</a><'de>,</div></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>This returns <code>Ok(Some(value))</code> for the next value in the sequence, or
<code>Ok(None)</code> if there are no more remaining items.</p>
<p><code>Deserialize</code> implementations should typically use
T: <aclass="trait"href="../trait.Deserialize.html"title="trait serde::Deserialize">Deserialize</a><'de>,</div></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>This returns <code>Ok(Some(value))</code> for the next value in the sequence, or
<code>Ok(None)</code> if there are no more remaining items.</p>
<p>This method exists as a convenience for <code>Deserialize</code> implementations.
<code>SeqAccess</code> implementations should not override the default behavior.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.size_hint"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/serde/de/mod.rs.html#1733-1735">source</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="#method.size_hint"class="fn">size_hint</a>(&self) -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.77.0/core/option/enum.Option.html"title="enum core::option::Option">Option</a><<aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.77.0/std/primitive.usize.html">usize</a>></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Returns the number of elements remaining in the sequence, if known.</p>
</div></details></div><h2id="object-safety"class="section-header">Object Safety<ahref="#object-safety"class="anchor">§</a></h2><divclass="object-safety-info">This trait is <b>not</b><ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.77.0/reference/items/traits.html#object-safety">object safe</a>.</div><h2id="foreign-impls"class="section-header">Implementations on Foreign Types<ahref="#foreign-impls"class="anchor">§</a></h2><detailsclass="toggle implementors-toggle"><summary><sectionid="impl-SeqAccess%3C'de%3E-for-%26mut+A"class="impl"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/serde/de/mod.rs.html#1738-1764">source</a><ahref="#impl-SeqAccess%3C'de%3E-for-%26mut+A"class="anchor">§</a><h3class="code-header">impl<'de, 'a, A><aclass="trait"href="trait.SeqAccess.html"title="trait serde::de::SeqAccess">SeqAccess</a><'de> for <aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.77.0/std/primitive.reference.html">&'a mut A</a><divclass="where">where
