How to implement `serde::Serialize` for a boxed trait object?

For serializing Serde trait objects you should use erased-serde.

#[macro_use]
extern crate serde_derive;

#[macro_use]
extern crate erased_serde;

extern crate serde;
extern crate serde_json;

#[derive(Serialize)]
struct Card {
    sections: Vec<Section>,
}

#[derive(Serialize)]
struct Section {
    header: String,
    widgets: Vec<Box<dyn WidgetTrait>>,
}

#[derive(Serialize)]
struct Image {
    image_url: String,
}

#[derive(Serialize)]
struct KeyValue {
    top_label: String,
    content: String,
}

trait WidgetTrait: erased_serde::Serialize {}
impl WidgetTrait for Image {}
impl WidgetTrait for KeyValue {}

serialize_trait_object!(WidgetTrait);

fn main() {
    let card = Card {
        sections: vec![
            Section {
                header: "text".to_owned(),
                widgets: vec![
                    Box::new(Image {
                        image_url: "img".to_owned(),
                    }),
                    Box::new(KeyValue {
                        top_label: "text".to_owned(),
                        content: "text".to_owned(),
                    }),
                ],
            },
        ],
    };

    println!("{}", serde_json::to_string_pretty(&card).unwrap());
}

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