Are Bond field names used in deserialization?

Suppose I serialized a given Bond struct with a single field:

struct NameBond
{
    1: string name;
}

And then I renamed the field in the .bond file (without changing its ordinal):

struct NameBond
{
    1: string displayName;
}

Would I still be able to deserialize it?

What about the name of the struct? (NameBond in the example.)

Would changing that prevent me from deserializing?

This depends on which protocol you are using.

• Your change will cause no problems in the CompactBinary serializer.
• It may cause trouble with other protocols.

You may want to consult the Bond schema evolution guide, where it says:

Caution should be used when changing or reusing field names as this could break text-based protocols like SimpleJsonProtocol

See also this related SO question.