From ea0012fc5a56fc754a8db5241cbd5e24e7332d08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Tolnay <dtolnay@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 09:44:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Support deserializing bytes as the flattened identifier

---
 serde/src/private/de.rs | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/serde/src/private/de.rs b/serde/src/private/de.rs
index fab85534..de5b57b2 100644
--- a/serde/src/private/de.rs
+++ b/serde/src/private/de.rs
@@ -276,6 +276,8 @@ mod content {
             match *self {
                 Content::Str(x) => Some(x),
                 Content::String(ref x) => Some(x),
+                Content::Bytes(x) => str::from_utf8(x).ok(),
+                Content::ByteBuf(ref x) => str::from_utf8(x).ok(),
                 _ => None,
             }
         }
@@ -1423,6 +1425,8 @@ mod content {
             match self.content {
                 Content::String(v) => visitor.visit_string(v),
                 Content::Str(v) => visitor.visit_borrowed_str(v),
+                Content::ByteBuf(v) => visitor.visit_byte_buf(v),
+                Content::Bytes(v) => visitor.visit_borrowed_bytes(v),
                 _ => Err(self.invalid_type(&visitor)),
             }
         }
@@ -2123,6 +2127,8 @@ mod content {
             match *self.content {
                 Content::String(ref v) => visitor.visit_str(v),
                 Content::Str(v) => visitor.visit_borrowed_str(v),
+                Content::ByteBuf(ref v) => visitor.visit_bytes(v),
+                Content::Bytes(v) => visitor.visit_borrowed_bytes(v),
                 _ => Err(self.invalid_type(&visitor)),
             }
         }