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//! # A user's guide for clapme.
//! 
//! ClapMe allows you to parse command line arguments by defining a
//! struct.  It combines [clap](https://crates.io/crates/clap) with
//! custom derive.
//! 
//! The basic idea is that you define a type that represents the
//! information you want on the command-line from the person running
//! your program, and `derive(ClapMe)` on that type, and then call
//! `YourType::from_args()` to find out what your user gave you.
//! To begin with, let's look at an example of how you might actually
//! use `ClapMe` in a real program.
//! 
//! ```should_panic
//! #[macro_use]
//! extern crate clapme;
//! 
//! use std::path::PathBuf;
//! use clapme::ClapMe;
//! 
//! #[derive(Debug, ClapMe)]
//! struct Opt {
//! /// Filling fraction
//! filling_fraction: f64,
//! /// Number of atoms
//! N: u32,
//! /// Output directory, working directory if not present
//! dir: Option<PathBuf>,
//! /// Activate verbose printing
//! verbose: bool,
//! }
//! 
//! fn main() {
//! let opt = Opt::from_args();
//! println!("{:?}", opt);
//! }
//! ```
//! The remainder of this guide will give examples of how the
//! command-line flags are constructed from your type, starting with
//! simple cases and moving gradually to more complex ones.  In no
//! case does your code involve more than defining a type, deriving
//! `ClapMe` and calling the `from_args` method of your type.
//! I want to note that `ClapMe` *almost always* produces long flags.
//! This is because I feel that long flags are generally the easiest
//! to use.  If you want to fine-tune your command-line interface,
//! `ClapMe` may not be for you.
//! ## Just a flag
//! Most often, you will define a struct as your type.  We'll
//! start out with the simplest case, which is a single boolean
//! field within that struct.
//! ```
//! struct Foo {
//!     foo: bool,
//! }
//! ```
//! This gives the following usage.
//! ```ignore
//! foo 
//! 
//! USAGE:
//!     foo [FLAGS]
//! 
//! FLAGS:
//!         --foo    
//! ```
//! A single boolean flag is treated as an optional flag.
//! ## How the flag is determined
//! We saw above that the flag just had `--` prepended to the
//! field name.  The rule in general is only slightly more
//! complicated: every underscore is replaced with a `-`.
//! ```
//! struct Flags {
//!     verbose: bool,
//!     blue_is_nice: bool,
//!     min_T: bool,
//! }
//! ```
//! This gives the following usage.
//! ```ignore
//! flags 
//! 
//! USAGE:
//!     flags [FLAGS]
//! 
//! FLAGS:
//!         --blue-is-nice    
//!         --min-T           
//!         --verbose         
//! ```
//! Thus you can create most any flag name you care for, and it is
//! easy to tell which flag corresponds to which field in your
//! struct.
//! ## Adding help information
//! We add help information simply by adding ordinary doc comments
//! to our struct.
//! ```
//! struct Help {
//!     /// Print excess messages.
//!     verbose: bool,
//!     /// The lowest temperature.
//!     min_T: bool,
//! }
//! ```
//! This gives the following usage.
//! ```ignore
//! help 
//! 
//! USAGE:
//!     help [FLAGS]
//! 
//! FLAGS:
//!         --min-T      The lowest temperature.
//!         --verbose    Print excess messages.
//! ```
//! In most of this documentation I'll avoid adding help text,
//! just to keep the page short, but I would always add it for
//! actual projects!
//! ## Other types
//! You can add most standard library types to your struct,
//! basically anything that can be read or parsed from a `&str`.
//! I'd recommend sticking to owned types.
//! ```
//! struct Types {
//!     name: String,
//!     T: f64,
//!     directory: std::path::PathBuf,
//! }
//! ```
//! This gives the following usage.
//! ```ignore
//! types 
//! 
//! USAGE:
//!     types --T <FLOAT> --directory <PATH> --name <STRING>
//! 
//! OPTIONS:
//!         --T <FLOAT>           
//!         --directory <PATH>    
//!         --name <STRING>       
//! ```
//! ## Optional flags
//! In the previous examples, every flag (except a `bool` flag)
//! was required to be specified by the user.  If you want a flag
//! to be optional, you just use the standard `Option` type.
//! ```
//! struct Optional {
//!     name: Option<String>,
//! }
//! ```
//! This gives the following usage.
//! ```ignore
//! optional 
//! 
//! USAGE:
//!     optional [OPTIONS]
//! 
//! OPTIONS:
//!         --name <STRING>    
//! ```
//! The value is then `None` if the user did not specify that flag.
//! ## Exclusive flags
//! If you want to make certain flags/values mutually exclusive,
//! you use an `enum` (just as always, in rust).
//! ```
//! enum Exclusive {
//!     First {
//!         a: String,
//!         b: String,
//!     },
//!     SecondFlag(String),
//!     Third_,
//! }
//! ```
//! This gives the following usage.
//! ```ignore
//! exclusive 
//! 
//! USAGE:
//!     exclusive [FLAGS] --Third --second-flag <STRING> --first-a <STRING> --first-b <STRING>
//! 
//! FLAGS:
//!         --Third    
//! 
//! OPTIONS:
//!         --second-flag <STRING>    
//!         --first-a <STRING>        
//!         --first-b <STRING>        
//! ```
//! This example illustrates the three kinds of `enum` variants.
//! Sadly, the help message does not indicate that these flags are
//! exlusive.  However, if a user tries to specify both `--third`
//! and `--second FOO`, however, they will get a nice error
//! message.  Note that you cannot use a tuple variant with more
//! than one field.
//! Note that the rules for constructing flags from enum variants
//! are more complicated than for struct fields.  This is because
//! by convention variants are given `CamelCase` names, which
//! aren't suitable as flags.  If a variant name contains an
//! underscore, then it is treated like a field name (as described
//! above), with any trailing underscores removed.  Otherwise the
//! name is converted from `CamelCase` to `kebab-case`.
//! ## Nesting types
//! You can use any `ClapMe` type as a field within a struct or
//! enum.  Doing so will give flag names that combine the nested
//! field names.
//! ```ignore
//! #[derive(ClapMe)]
//! struct Vec2d {
//!     x: f64, y: f64,
//! }
//! #[derive(ClapMe)]
//! struct Nested {
//!     position: Vec2d,
//!     velocity: Vec2d,
//! }
//! ```
//! This gives the following usage.
//! ```ignore
//! nested 
//! 
//! USAGE:
//!     nested --position-x <FLOAT> --position-y <FLOAT> --velocity-x <FLOAT> --velocity-y <FLOAT>
//! 
//! OPTIONS:
//!         --position-x <FLOAT>    
//!         --position-y <FLOAT>    
//!         --velocity-x <FLOAT>    
//!         --velocity-y <FLOAT>    
//! ```
//! ## Flattened nesting types
//! As you say in the last example, nesting types allows you to
//! make your own complex types that can be reused.  Sometimes,
//! however, you would like to nest structs for a different
//! reason: to separate concerns in the code.  In this case, you
//! may not want the nesting to be visible in the user interface.
//! This can be acheived with a leading underscore on a field
//! name.  The catch is that when you do this, you could run into
//! a runtime error if you have duplicate field names.
//! ```ignore
//! #[derive(ClapMe)]
//! struct MyConfig {
//!     name: String,
//! }
//! #[derive(ClapMe)]
//! struct YourConfig {
//!     address: String,
//! }
//! #[derive(ClapMe)]
//! struct Flattened {
//!     _mine: MyConfig,
//!     _yours: YourConfig,
//! }
//! ```
//! This gives the following usage.
//! ```ignore
//! flattened 
//! 
//! USAGE:
//!     flattened --address <STRING> --name <STRING>
//! 
//! OPTIONS:
//!         --address <STRING>    
//!         --name <STRING>       
//! ```
//! This may be a good idea if `MyConfig` and `YourConfig` are
//! implementation details that your user need not be aware of.
//! ## Other possibilities
//! There may be a few other features that clapme has, for which I
//! have not bothered to create an entire example.  I will list
//! them here when they come to mind.
//! 1. You can use a `Vec<T>` for many values of `T` to create an
//! option that can be specified more than once.
//! ## Conclusion
//! There is more that could be said and more possible examples,
//! but I think this is enough to get you started using `ClapMe`.
//! The intent is that any reasonable type that *can* be obtained
//! from one or more strings should work with clapme.  Please fill
//! an issue on github if there is a type that you would like to
//! have supported by clapme.  Pull requests are most welcome.