Can bincode::serialize error?

[Ekleog]

As far as I can see, bincode::serialize cannot actually return an Err.

If it cannot, maybe this could be documented (and hopefully the return type changed to Vec<u8> if/when v2 gets out)?

If it can, hopefully the ways in which it can return an Err could be documented, as there is no obvious case I could think of?

Anyway, thank you for bincode! I'm still starting using it, but it looks really neat :)

[ZoeyR]

It could return an error if the Serialize implementation of the serialized type calls a method that is not supported by bincode. For example, if it calls serialize_seq with a len of None

[Ekleog]

Ooh good to know, thank you :) Going to leave this open for tracking the “include in the docs”, then, I guess

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[Ekleog]

Not stale

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[dtolnay]

https://github.com/bincode-org/bincode/issues/293#issuecomment-614597852 is still in need of action as of current master.