Model

twilight-model is a crate of models for use with serde defining the Discord APIs with limited implementations on top of them.

These are in a single crate for ease of use, a single point of definition, and a sort of versioning of the Discord API. Similar to how a database schema progresses in versions, the definition of the API also progresses in versions.

Most other Twilight crates use types from this crate. For example, the Embed Builder crate primarily uses types having to do with channel message embeds, while the Lavalink crate works with a few of the events received from the gateway. These types being in a single versioned definition is beneficial because it removes the need for crates to rely on other large and unnecessary crates.

The types in this crate are reproducible: deserializing a payload into a type, serializing it, and then deserializing it again will result in the same instance.

Defined are a number of modules defining types returned by or owned by resource categories. For example, gateway contains types used to interact with and returned by the gateway API. guild contains types owned by the Guild resource category. These types may be directly returned by, built on top of, or extended by other Twilight crates.

source: https://github.com/twilight-rs/twilight/tree/main/model

docs: https://docs.rs/twilight-model

crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/twilight-model