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Tips and Traps¶

1. The YAML specification does not forbid duplicated keys.

2. serde-yaml ignores duplicated keys except the last one silently, by default. To overwrite this behavior, you have to define your own struct and use the tag serde_with::rust::maps_duplicate_key_is_error .

   https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml/issues/150

   https://users.rust-lang.org/t/how-can-i-handle-duplicate-fields-when-specifying-multiple-aliases-using-serde/46426