BurntSushi / BurntSushi/rust-csv
permit caller to define "nullable" semantics
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Description
Currently, the Serde deserializer in this crate hardcodes specific nullable semantics. Namely, only fields with an empty value are considered missing. But, it is fairly common in CSV formats to use other sentinels, such as "null," even for otherwise non-String fields. It should be possible to augment `ReaderBuilder` to permit the caller to provide a predicate that determines whether a field value is missing or not.
Once we have the predicate, it should be as simple as plumbing it through and calling it in [`deserialize_option`](https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-csv/blob/fcdbea357739348b9eed2a0239e180213be78af9/src/deserializer.rs#L453-L465).
See also https://users.rust-lang.org/t/serde-csv-empty-fields-are-the-string-null/31260 for motivation.
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