How to deserialize into enums without failing with 'unknown variant'?

[nicokosi]

I currently use serde_json for a side project in order to parse GitHub events API's output.

The GitHub events API returns many event types, such as:

CheckRunEvent
CheckSuiteEvent
CommitCommentEvent

etc.

I am trying to use serde_json::from_str to parse events for a subset of event types:

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, Eq, PartialEq)]
pub enum Type {
    IssueCommentEvent,
    PullRequestEvent,
    PullRequestReviewCommentEvent,
}

It currently fails because of an unknown variant.

Is there a way to skip content with "unknown enums"? In my case, I would like to only deserialize RawEvent structures with a type that is present in the Type enumeration.

PS: I had a look to the documentation / GitHub issues but I could not figure it out. 😇

[nicokosi]

It duplicates issues #342 and serde-rs/serde#912. Closing this issue.