IndexItem should be serialised as an object rather than an array

[nrc]

See html/render.rs for the Rust side and main.js and possibly other places for the JS side.

I see no reason why this struct is serialised as an array, thus losing the information about which field is which. Using an object would retain that information and make things less error-prone, I believe.

[GuillaumeGomez]

You've got this issue when running rustdoc on librustdoc? Can you give me the rustdoc command you used to generate doc please?

[nrc]

This isn't a bug, but a suggestion for improvement. It's just a refactoring of the code, it doesn't need to be run on anything.

Having read the code a bit more, I think the reason it might be done like this is for efficiency, but I don't think that is important here - doesn't really matter if we use a few more bytes for the index, right?

[GuillaumeGomez]

Ah ok, my bad. I thought the output of this struct in particular was bad. Sorry about the misunderstanding! 😺

[jonas-schievink]

Seems like this was done deliberately in #13431

[nrc]

Based on #13431, looks like we should not do this.