Conveniance loader function

[aDotInTheVoid]

Do

https://github.com/awslabs/smithy-rs/blob/f7e1f0836eb59e29fad668f9b0b3ad682757b5af/tools/api-linter/src/cargo.rs#L78-L100

but here so anyone can use it.

Not sure if this should live here or a seperate crate?

[Enselic]

My recommendation/personal preference would be to let this crate remain a pure mirror of rustdoc-json-types in rust-lang/rust without any extra stuff.

Just in case this thought of yours was initiated by Enselic/public-api#27: I was simply silly enough to assume 0.7.0 had not been released yet when I wrote it. I didn't think you would be that fast. Super super silly. Sorry :)

The rustdoc JSON is still too much of a moving target for it to make sense to be "nice" about it IMHO. At least for a low-level crate like this one. On higher level crates it might very well make sense to be a bit nicer. In any case, I think it is better to put effort into making progress on rustdoc JSON itself rather than making this crate bigger.

[aDotInTheVoid]

I think if/when I do this it should be a different crate

[Boscop]

@aDotInTheVoid Thanks for the loader code :)
+1 I think it would make sense to have it in this crate.

[jalil-salame]

I don't think it should be in this crate as there is a bit of complexity involved, in cargo-semver-checks we might want to move to simd_json for it's tape API, which allows us to parse the JSON once, extract the version, then use the correct rustdoc-types::Crate to deserialize that version (without parsing the JSON again).

simd_json is not 1.0 yet so I don't think rustdoc-types should depend on it. Maybe under a feature gate?