This PR contains the following updates:
| Package | Type | Update | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| clap | dependencies | major | 3.2.12
-> 4.0.26
|
Release Notes
clap-rs/clap
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Fixes
- (error) Fix typos in
ContextKind::as_str
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Features
- (error) Report available subcommands when required subcommand is missing
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Fixes
- Avoid panic when printing an argument that isn't built
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Fixes
- Don't panic on reporting invalid-long errors when followed by invalid UTF8
- (help) Clarified argument to
help
subcommand
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Fixes
- (help) Don't overflow into next-line-help early due to stale (pre-v4) padding calculations
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Features
- (derive)
long_about
and long_help
attributes, without a value, force using doc comment (before it wouldn't be set if there wasn't anything different than the short help)
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Fixes
- (derive) Allow defaulted value parser for '()' fields
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Features
ColorChoice
now implements ValueEnum
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Fixes
- (derive) Allow
#[command(skip)]
to also work with enum variants with a value
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Fixes
- Allow using
Arg::last(true)
with Arg::value_hint(ValueHint::CommandWithArguments)
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Arg::exclusive(true)
should not be exclusive with the argument's own ArgGroup
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Fixes
- (error) Don't suggest
--
when it doesn't help
- (error) Be more consistent in quoting, punctuation, and indentation in errors
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Fixes
- Only put
ArgGroup
in ArgMatches
when explicitly specified, fixing derives handling of option-flattened fields (#4375)
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Features
- (derive) Allow
()
for fields to mean "don't read" (#4371)
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Features
- Added
TypedValueParser::try_map
for when adapting an existing TypedValueParser
can fail
- (error) Create errors like clap with
Error::new
, Error::with_cmd
, and Error::insert
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Fixes
- (help) Fix wrapping calculations with ANSI escape codes
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Features
- (derive) Support
#[arg(flatten)]
on Option
types (#4211, #4350)
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Fixes
- (derive) Process doc comments for
#[command(subcommand)]
like in clap v3
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Fixes
- (derive) Remove a low-value assert preventing defaulting
Help
and Version
actions
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Features
- (derive) Populate implicit ArgGroup (#3165)
Fixes
- (derive) Support
#[group(skip)]
on Parser
derive
- (derive) Tell users about implicit arg groups when running into group name conflicts
- (error) Don't report unrelated groups in conflict or requires errors
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Fixes
- (error) Specialize the self-conflict error to look like clap v3
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Fixes
- (error) Quote literals consistently
- (error) Stylize escape (
--
) suggestions
- (error) Format help flag as a literal
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Fixes
- (error) Fix typos in
ContextKind::as_str
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Features
ColorChoice
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Highlights
Arg::num_args(range)
Clap has had several ways for controlling how many values will be captured without always being clear on how they interacted, including
Arg::multiple_values(true)
Arg::number_of_values(4)
Arg::min_values(2)
Arg::max_values(20)
Arg::takes_value(true)
These have now all been collapsed into Arg::num_args
which accepts both
single values and ranges of values. num_args
controls how many raw arguments
on the command line will be captured as values per occurrence and independent
of value delimiters.
See Issue 2688 for more background.
Polishing Help
Clap strives to give a polished CLI experience out of the box with little
ceremony. With some feedback that has accumulated over time, we took this
release as an opportunity to re-evaluate our --help
output to make sure it is
meeting that goal.
In doing this evaluation, we wanted to keep in mind:
- Whether other CLIs had ideas that make sense to apply
- Providing an experience that fits within the rest of applications and works across all shells
Before:
git
A fictional versioning CLI
USAGE:
git <SUBCOMMAND>
OPTIONS:
-h, --help Print help information
SUBCOMMANDS:
add adds things
clone Clones repos
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
push pushes things
stash
After:
A fictional versioning CLI
Usage: git <COMMAND>
Commands:
clone Clones repos
push pushes things
add adds things
stash
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-h, --help Print help information
- name/version header was removed because we couldn't justify the space it occupied when
- Usage already includes the name
--version
is available for showing the same thing (if the program has a version set)
- Usage was dropped to one line to save space
- Focus is put on the subcommands
- Headings are now Title case
- The more general term "command" is used rather than being explicit about being "subcommands"
- The output is more dense with the expectation that it won't affect legibility but will allow more content
- We've moved to a more neutral palette for highlighting elements (not highlighted above)
In talking to users, we found some that liked clap's man
-like experience.
When deviating from this, we are making the assumption that those are more
power users and that the majority of users wouldn't look as favorably on being
consistent with man
.
See Issue 4132 for more background.
More Dynamicism
Clap's API has focused on &str
for performance but this can make
dealing with owned data difficult, like #[arg(default_value_t)]
generating a
String from the default value.
Additionally, to avoid ArgMatches
from borrowing (and for some features we
decided to forgo), clap took the &str
argument IDs and hashed them. This
prevented us from providing a usable API for iterating over existing arguments.
Now clap has switched to a string newtype that gives us the flexibility to
decide whether to use &'static str
, Cow<'static, str>
for fast dynamic behavior, or
Box<str>
for dynamic behavior with small binary size.
As an extension of that work, you can now call ArgMatches::ids
to iterate
over the arguments and groups that were found when parsing. The newtype Id
was used to prevent some classes of bugs and to make it easier to understand
when opaque Ids are used vs user-visible strings.
Clearing Out Deprecations
Instead of doing all development on clap 4.0.0, we implemented a lot of new features during clap 3's development, deprecating the old API while introducing the new API, including:
- Replacing the implicit behavior for args when parsing them with
ArgAction
- Replacing various one-off forms of value validation with the
ValueParser
API
- Allowing derives to automatically do the right thing for
PathBuf
(allowing invalid UTF-8)
- Replacing
AppSettings
and ArgSettings
enums with getters/setters
- Clarifying terms and making them more consistent
Migrating
Steps:
- Upgrade to v3 if you haven't already
- Add CLI tests (including example below),
-h
and --help
output at a minimum (recommendation: trycmd for snapshot testing)
- If using Builder API: Explicitly set the
arg.action(ArgAction::...)
on each argument (StoreValue
for options and IncOccurrences
for flags)
- Run
cargo check --features clap/deprecated
and resolve all deprecation warnings
- Upgrade to v4
- Update feature flags
- If
default-features = false
, run cargo add clap -F help,usage,error-context
- Run
cargo add clap -F wrap_help
unless you want to hard code line wraps
- Resolve compiler errors
- Resolve behavior changes (see "subtle changes" under BREAKING CHANGES)
- At your leisure: resolve new deprecation notices
Example test (derive):
#[derive(clap::Parser)]
struct Cli {
...
}
#[test]
fn verify_cli() {
use clap::CommandFactory;
Cli::command().debug_assert()
}
Example test (builder):
fn cli() -> clap::Command {
...
}
#[test]
fn verify_cli() {
cli().debug_assert();
}
Note: the idiomatic / recommended way of specifying different types of args in the Builder API has changed:
Before
.arg(Arg::new("flag").long("flag")) # --flag
.arg(Arg::new("option").long("option").takes_value(true)) # --option <option>
After:
.arg(Arg::new("flag").long("flag").action(ArgAction::SetTrue)) # --flag
.arg(Arg::new("option").long("option")) # --option <option>
In particular, num_args
(the replacement for takes_value
) will default appropriately
from the ArgAction
and generally only needs to be set explicitly for the
other num_args
use cases.
Breaking Changes
Subtle changes (i.e. compiler won't catch):
arg!
now sets one of (#3795):
ArgAction::SetTrue
, requiring ArgMatches::get_flag
instead of ArgMatches::is_present
ArgAction::Count
, requiring ArgMatches::get_count
instead of ArgMatches::occurrences_of
ArgAction::Set
, requiring ArgMatches::get_one
instead of ArgMatches::value_of
ArgAction::Append
, requiring ArgMatches::get_many
instead of ArgMatches::values_of
ArgAction::Set
, ArgAction::SetTrue
, and Arg::Action::SetFalse
now
conflict by default to be like ArgAction::StoreValue
and
ArgAction::IncOccurrences
, requiring cmd.args_override_self(true)
to override instead (#4261)
- By default, an
Arg
s default action is ArgAction::Set
, rather than ArgAction::IncOccurrence
to reduce confusing magic through consistency (#2687, #4032, see also #3977)
mut_arg
can no longer be used to customize help and version arguments, instead disable them (Command::disable_help_flag
, Command::disable_version_flag
) and provide your own (#4056)
- Removed lifetimes from
Command
, Arg
, ArgGroup
, and PossibleValue
, assuming 'static
. string
feature flag will enable support for String
s (#1041, #2150, #4223)
arg!(--flag <value>)
is now optional, instead of required. Add .required(true)
at the end to restore the original behavior (#4206)
- Added default feature flags,
help
, usage
and error-context
, requiring adding them back in if default-features = false
(#4236)
- (parser) Always fill in
""
argument for external subcommands to make it easier to distinguish them from built-in commands (#3263)
- (parser) Short flags now have higher precedence than hyphen values with
Arg::allow_hyphen_values
, to be consistent with Command::allow_hyphen_values
(#4187)
- (parser)
Arg::value_terminator
must be its own argument on the CLI rather than being in a delimited list (#4025)
- (help) Line wrapping of help is now behind the existing
wrap_help
feature flag, either enable it or hard code your wraps (#4258)
- (help) Make
DeriveDisplayOrder
the default and removed the setting. To sort help, set next_display_order(None)
(#2808)
- (help) Subcommand display order respects
Command::next_display_order
instead of DeriveDisplayOrder
and using its own initial display order value (#2808)
- (help) Subcommands are now listed before arguments. To get the old behavior, see
Command::help_template
(#4132)
- (help) Help headings are now title cased, making any user-provided help headings inconsistent. To get the old behavior, see
Command::help_template
, Arg::help_heading
, and Command::subcommand_help_heading
(#4132)
- (help) "Command" is used as the section heading for subcommands and
COMMAND
for the value name. To get the old behavior, see Command::subcommand_help_heading
and Arg::subcommand_value_name
(#4132, #4155)
- (help) Whitespace in help output is now trimmed to ensure consistency regardless of how well a template matches the users needs. (#4132, #4156)
- (help) name/version/author are removed by default from help output. To get the old behavior, see
Command::help_template
. (#4132, #4160)
- (help) Indentation for second-line usage changed. (#4132, #4188)
- (env) Parse
--help
and --version
like any ArgAction::SetTrue
flag (#3776)
- (derive) Leave
Arg::id
as verbatim
casing, requiring updating of string references to other args like in conflicts_with
or requires
(#3282)
- (derive) Doc comments for
ValueEnum
variants will now show up in --help
(#3312)
- (derive) When deriving
Args
, and ArgGroup
is created using the type's name, reserving it for future use (#2621, #4209)
- (derive)
next_help_heading
can now leak out of a #[clap(flatten)]
, like all other command settings (#4222)
Easier to catch changes:
- Looking up a group in
ArgMatches
now returns the arg Id
s, rather than the values to reduce overhead and offer more flexibility. (#4072)
- Changed
Arg::number_of_values
(average-across-occurrences) to Arg::num_args
(per-occurrence) (raw CLI args, not parsed values) (#2688, #4023)
num_args(0)
no longer implies takes_value(true).multiple_values(true)
(#4023)
num_args(1)
no longer implies multiple_values(true)
(#4023)
- Does not check default or env values, only what the user explicitly passes in (#4025)
- No longer terminates on delimited values (#4025)
- Replace
Arg::min_values
(across all occurrences) with Arg::num_args(N..)
(per occurrence) to reduce confusion over different value count APIs (#4023)
- Replace
Arg::max_values
(across all occurrences) with Arg::num_args(1..=M)
(per occurrence) to reduce confusion over different value count APIs (#4023)
- Replace
Arg::multiple_values(true)
with Arg::num_args(1..)
and Arg::multiple_values(false)
with Arg::num_args(0)
to reduce confusion over different value count APIs (#4023)
- Replace
Arg::takes_value(true)
with Arg::num_args(1)
and Arg::takes_value(false)
with Arg::num_args(0)
to reduce confusion over different value count APIs
- Remove
Arg::require_value_delimiter
, either users could use Arg::value_delimiter
or implement a custom parser with TypedValueParser
as it was mostly to make multiple_values(true)
act like multiple_values(false)
and isn't needed anymore (#4026)
Arg::new("help")
and Arg::new("version")
no longer implicitly disable the
built-in flags and be copied to all subcommands, instead disable
the built-in flags (Command::disable_help_flag
,
Command::disable_version_flag
) and mark the custom flags as global(true)
. (#4056)
Arg::short('h')
no longer implicitly disables the short flag for help,
instead disable
the built-in flags (Command::disable_help_flag
,
Command::disable_version_flag
) provide your own Arg::new("help").long("help").action(ArgAction::Help).global(true)
. (#4056)
ArgAction::SetTrue
and ArgAction::SetFalse
now prioritize Arg::default_missing_value
over their standard behavior (#4000)
- Changed
Arg::requires_ifs
and Arg::default_value*_ifs*
to taking an ArgPredicate
, removing ambiguity with None
when accepting owned and borrowed types (#4084)
- Removed
PartialEq
and Eq
from Command
so we could change external subcommands to use a ValueParser
(#3990)
- Various
Arg
, Command
, and ArgGroup
calls were switched from accepting &[]
to []
via IntoIterator
to be more flexible (#4072)
Arg::short_aliases
and other builder functions that took &[]
need the &
dropped (#4081)
ErrorKind
and Result
moved into the error
module
ErrorKind::EmptyValue
replaced with ErrorKind::InvalidValue
to remove an unnecessary special case (#3676, #3968)
ErrorKind::UnrecognizedSubcommand
replaced with ErrorKind::InvalidSubcommand
to remove an unnecessary special case (#3676)
- Changed the default type of
allow_external_subcommands
from String
to OsString
as that is less likely to cause bugs in user applications (#3990)
- (help)
Command::render_usage
now returns a StyledStr
(#4248)
- (derive) Changed the default for arguments from
parse
to value_parser
, removing parse
support (#3827, #3981)
#[clap(value_parser)]
and #[clap(action)]
are now redundant
- (derive)
subcommand_required(true).arg_required_else_help(true)
is set instead of SubcommandRequiredElseHelp
to give more meaningful errors when subcommands are missing and to reduce redundancy (#3280)
- (derive) Remove
arg_enum
attribute in favor of value_enum
to match the new name (we didn't have support in v3 to mark it deprecated) (#4127)
- (parser) Assert when the CLI looksup an unknown args when external subcommand support is enabled to help catch bugs (#3703)
- (assert) Sometimes
Arg::default_missing_value
didn't require num_args(0..=N)
, now it does (#4023)
- (assert) Leading dashes in
Arg::long
are no longer allowed (#3691)
- (assert) Disallow more
value_names
than num_args
(#2695)
- (assert) Always enforce that version is specified when the
ArgAction::Version
is used
- (assert) Add missing
#[track_caller]
s to make it easier to debug asserts
- (assert) Ensure
overrides_with
IDs are valid
- (assert) Ensure no self-
overrides_with
now that Actions replace it
- (assert) Ensure subcommand names are not duplicated
- (assert) Assert on
mut_arg
receiving an invalid arg ID or mut_subcommand
receiving an invalid command name
Compatibility
MSRV is now 1.60.0
Deprecated
Arg::use_value_delimiter
in favor of Arg::value_delimiter
to avoid having multiple ways of doing the same thing
Arg::requires_all
in favor of Arg::requires_ifs
now that it takes an ArgPredicate
to avoid having multiple ways of doing the same thing
Arg::number_of_values
in favor of Arg::num_args
to clarify semantic differences
default_value_os
, default_values_os
, default_value_if_os
, and default_value_ifs_os
as the non _os
variants now accept either a str
or an OsStr
(#4141)
Arg::env_os
in favor of Arg::env
Command::dont_collapse_args_in_usage
is now the default (#4151)
Command::trailing_var_arg
in favor of Arg::trailing_var_arg
to make it clearer which arg it is meant to apply to (#4187)
Command::allow_hyphen_values
in favor of Arg::allow_hyphen_values
to make it clearer which arg it is meant to apply to (#4187)
Command::allow_negative_numbers
in favor of Arg::allow_negative_numbers
to make it clearer which arg it is meant to apply to (#4187)
- (help) Deprecated
Command::write_help
and Command::write_long_help
in favor of Command::render_help
and Command::render_long_help
(#4248)
- (derive)
structopt
and clap
attributes in favor of the more specific command
, arg
, and value
to open the door for more features and clarify relationship to the builder (#1807, #4180)
- (derive)
#[clap(value_parser)]
and #[clap(action)]
defaulted attributes (its the default) (#3976)
Behavior Changes
- (help) With
wrap_help
feature, if the terminal size cannot be determined, LINES
and COLUMNS
variables are used (#4186)
Features
Arg::num_args
now accepts ranges, allowing setting both the minimum and maximum number of values per occurrence (#2688, #4023)
- Allow non-bool
value_parser
s for ArgAction::SetTrue
/ ArgAction::SetFalse
(#4092)
- Add
From<&OsStr>
, From<OsString>
, From<&str>
, and From<String>
to value_parser!
(#4257)
- Allow resetting most builder methods
- Can now pass runtime generated data to
Command
, Arg
, ArgGroup
, PossibleValue
, etc without managing lifetimes with the string
feature flag (#2150, #4223)
- New default
error-context
, help
and usage
feature flags that can be turned off for smaller binaries (#4236)
- Added
StyledStr::ansi()
to Display
with ANSI escape codes (#4248)
- (error)
Error::apply
for changing the formatter for dropping binary size (#4111)
- (error)
Error::render
for formatting the error into a StyledStr
- (help) Show
PossibleValue::help
in long help (--help
) (#3312)
- (help) New
{tab}
variable for Command::help_template
(#4161)
- (help)
Command::render_help
and Command::render_long_help
for formatting the error into a StyledStr
(#3873, #4248)
- (help)
Command::render_usage
now returns a StyledStr
(#4248)
Fixes
- Verify
required
is not used with conditional required settings (#3660)
- Replaced
cmd.allow_invalid_for_utf8_external_subcommands
with cmd.external_subcommand_value_parser
(#3733)
Arg::default_missing_value
now applies per occurrence rather than if a value is missing across all occurrences (#3998)
arg!(--long [value])
to accept 0..=1
per occurrence rather than across all occurrences, making it safe to use with ArgAction::Append
(#4001)
- Allow
OsStr
s for Arg::{required_if_eq,required_if_eq_any,required_if_eq_all}
(#4084)
- (help) With
wrap_help
feature, if the terminal size cannot be determined, LINES
and COLUMNS
variables are used (#4186)
- (help) Use
Command::display_name
in the help title rather than Command::bin_name
- (help) Show when a flag is
ArgAction::Count
by adding an ...
(#4003)
- (help) Use a more neutral palette for coloring (#4132, #4117)
- (help) Don't rely on ALL CAPS for help headers (#4132, #4123)
- (help) List subcommands first, focusing the emphasis on them (#4132, #4125)
- (help) Do not include global args in
cmd help help
(#4131)
- (help) Use
[positional]
in list when relevant (#4144)
- (help) Show all
[positional]
in usage (#4151)
- (help) Polish up subcommands by referring to them as commands (#4132, #4155)
- (help) Trim extra whitespace to avoid artifacts from different uses of templates (#4132, #4156)
- (help) Hint to the user the difference between
-h
/ --help
when applicable (#4132, #4159)
- (help) Shorten help by eliding name/version/author (#4132, #4160)
- (help) When short help is long enough to activate
next_line_help
, don't add blank lines (#4132, #4190)
- (help) Make help output more dense (reducing horizontal whitespace) (#4132, #4192)
- (help) Separate subcommand flags with "," like option flags (#4232, #4235)
- (help) Quote the suggested help flag (#4220)
- (version) Use
Command::display_name
rather than Command::bin_name
(#3966)
- (parser) Always fill in
""
argument for external subcommands (#3263)
- (parser) Short flags now have higher precedence than hyphen values with
Arg::allow_hyphen_values
, like Command::allow_hyphen_values
(#4187)
- (parser) Prefer
InvalidSubcommand
over UnknownArgument
in more cases (#4219)
- (derive) Detect escaped external subcommands that look like built-in subcommands (#3703)
- (derive) Leave
Arg::id
as verbatim
casing (#3282)
- (derive) Default to
#[clap(value_parser, action)]
instead of #[clap(parse)]
(#3827)
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Fixes
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[3.2.22] - 2022-09-16
Fixes
- Unify dependencies on
terminal_size
to the 0.2 release
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[3.2.21] - 2022-09-12
Features
TypedValueParser::map
to allow reusing existing value parsers for other purposes
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Features
ArgMatches::get_count
help for ArgAction::Count
ArgMatches::get_flag
help for ArgAction::SetTrue
/ ArgAction::SetFalse
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Fixes
- (help) Ensure required arguments for parent commands aren't shown in their subcommands when using
args_conflicts_with_subcommand
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Fixes
- (help)
Command::print_help
now respects Command::colored_help
- (derive) Improved error messages
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Fixes
- (derive) Expose
#[clap(id = ...)]
attribute to match Arg's latest API
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Fixes
- Ensure required arguments appear in errors when they are also members of a group (#4004)
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Features
- (derive) New
default_values_t
and default_values_os_t
attributes
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Fixes
- A
multiple_values
positional followed by another positional now works with multiple flags
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Documentation
- Pulled in tutorials, cookbook, and derive reference into rustdoc
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