Top-level shorthand for ValueSerializer

[Nemo157]

In docs.rs we serialize Vec<String>s to pass through cargo's --config flag, this caused issues on updating from 0.5 to 0.7 as it started erroring. It looks like replacing this with ValueSerializer would take a fair chunk of code, I was wondering if you would consider having something like fn value_to_string<T: Serialize + ?Sized>(value: &T) -> Result<String, Error> as a top-level function (or maybe nested at value::to_string) wrapping this code.

[epage]

It looks like its 1-5 lines of code, depending on the approach taken and where rustfmt line wraps. For how often this functionality is needed, I'm a bit unsure of the pay off of this. By "this" I also include things like having to come up with names (e.g. imo use is overused and people are like to use toml::value::to_string, losing critical context and possibly conflicting).

[Nemo157]

Hmmm, I don't see how to get it down to 1 line, my expectation was 3

fn value_to_string<T: serde::Serialize + ?Sized>(value: &T) -> Result<String, Error> {
  let mut output = String::new();
  value.serialize(toml::ser::ValueSerializer::new(&mut s))?;
  output
}

(in cases where you have an existing string to write to and need peformance it'd only require the middle line, but for low-performance cases creating some temporary strings is more readable).

[epage]

One line would be Value::try_from(value).to_string() which would have higher overhead (converts to an intermediate state).