<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">ser</a>::<wbr><aclass="trait"href="#">SerializeStruct</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/ser/mod.rs.html#1851-1876">source</a> · <buttonid="toggle-all-docs"title="collapse all docs">[<span>−</span>]</button></span></div><preclass="rust item-decl"><code>pub trait SerializeStruct {
type <ahref="#associatedtype.Ok"class="associatedtype">Ok</a>;
type <ahref="#associatedtype.Error"class="associatedtype">Error</a>: <aclass="trait"href="trait.Error.html"title="trait serde::ser::Error">Error</a>;
}</code></pre><detailsclass="toggle top-doc"open><summaryclass="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Returned from <code>Serializer::serialize_struct</code>.</p>
<p>The <ahref="https://serde.rs/data-format.html">example data format</a> presented on the website demonstrates an
implementation of <code>SerializeStruct</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.Ok"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/serde/ser/mod.rs.html#1853">source</a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="#associatedtype.Ok"class="associatedtype">Ok</a></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Must match the <code>Ok</code> type of our <code>Serializer</code>.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="toggle"open><summary><sectionid="associatedtype.Error"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/serde/ser/mod.rs.html#1856">source</a><h4class="code-header">type <ahref="#associatedtype.Error"class="associatedtype">Error</a>: <aclass="trait"href="trait.Error.html"title="trait serde::ser::Error">Error</a></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Must match the <code>Error</code> type of our <code>Serializer</code>.</p>
</div></details></div><h2id="provided-methods"class="section-header">Provided Methods<ahref="#provided-methods"class="anchor">§</a></h2><divclass="methods"><detailsclass="toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.skip_field"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/serde/ser/mod.rs.html#1869-1872">source</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="#method.skip_field"class="fn">skip_field</a>(&mut self, key: &'static <aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.77.1/std/primitive.str.html">str</a>) -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.77.1/core/result/enum.Result.html"title="enum core::result::Result">Result</a><<aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.77.1/std/primitive.unit.html">()</a>, Self::<aclass="associatedtype"href="trait.SerializeStruct.html#associatedtype.Error"title="type serde::ser::SerializeStruct::Error">Error</a>></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Indicate that a struct field has been skipped.</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/1.77.1/reference/items/traits.html#object-safety">object safe</a>.</div><h2id="implementors"class="section-header">Implementors<ahref="#implementors"class="anchor">§</a></h2><divid="implementors-list"><detailsclass="toggle implementors-toggle"><summary><sectionid="impl-SerializeStruct-for-Impossible%3COk,+Error%3E"class="impl"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/serde/ser/impossible.rs.html#176-195">source</a><ahref="#impl-SerializeStruct-for-Impossible%3COk,+Error%3E"class="anchor">§</a><h3class="code-header">impl<Ok, Error><aclass="trait"href="trait.SerializeStruct.html"title="trait serde::ser::SerializeStruct">SerializeStruct</a> for <aclass="struct"href="struct.Impossible.html"title="struct serde::ser::Impossible">Impossible</a><Ok, Error><divclass="where">where