actix-website/examples/requests/src/manual.rs

// <json-manual>
use actix_web::{error, web, App, Error, HttpResponse};
use bytes::BytesMut;
use futures::StreamExt;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
use serde_json;

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct MyObj {
    name: String,
    number: i32,
}

const MAX_SIZE: usize = 262_144; // max payload size is 256k

async fn index_manual(mut payload: web::Payload) -> Result<HttpResponse, Error> {
    // payload is a stream of Bytes objects
    let mut body = BytesMut::new();
    while let Some(chunk) = payload.next().await {
        let chunk = chunk?;
        // limit max size of in-memory payload
        if (body.len() + chunk.len()) > MAX_SIZE {
            return Err(error::ErrorBadRequest("overflow"));
        }
        body.extend_from_slice(&chunk);
    }

    // body is loaded, now we can deserialize serde-json
    let obj = serde_json::from_slice::<MyObj>(&body)?;
    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok().json(obj)) // <- send response
}
// </json-manual>

#[actix_rt::main]
async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
    use actix_web::HttpServer;

    HttpServer::new(|| App::new().route("/", web::post().to(index_manual)))
        .bind("127.0.0.1:8088")?
        .run()
        .await
}