feat(derive): add a 'prefix = ' attr for structs #4250
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I took the code sample I wrote up in #3513 and rebased it onto the current master (at 4.0.0-rc.2). I'm currently using this feature in a large codebase and some folks on at least two other companies I've spoken to have found it useful as well.
Implementation notes: this works very similarly to
rename_all
andrename_all_env
in that it takes effect in theName::translate()
method (and also inName::raw
to prevent collisions), and how it is propagated from parent struct down to child fields. It's nice that the entire implementation lives in clap_derive and needs no support from clap itself.I've added a test which illustrates how it works. In real usage, the sub-structs would be defined in different modules or even in different crates; the whole point of this is to permit uniform re-use of a set of related options across several binaries in a large codebase.