How to deserialize a JSON file which contains null values using Serde?

Question

I want to deserialize the chemical elements JSON file from Bowserinator on github using Serde. For this I created a structure with all the needed fields and derived the need

Answer 1

Any field that can be null should be an Option type so that you can handle the null case. Something like this?

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, Clone)]
pub struct Element {
    ...
    color: Option,
    ...
}