Module additional_attributes

Documentation for Additional Attributes

Attributes on Enums

Strum supports several custom attributes to modify the generated code. At the enum level, the following attributes are supported:

• #[strum(serialize_all = "case_style")] attribute can be used to change the case used when serializing to and deserializing from strings. This feature is enabled by withoutboats/heck and supported case styles are:

  • camelCase
  • PascalCase
  • kebab-case
  • snake_case
  • SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE
  • SCREAMING-KEBAB-CASE
  • lowercase
  • UPPERCASE
  • title_case
  • mixed_case
  • Train-Case

  use strum_macros;
   
  #[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq, strum_macros::Display)]
  #[strum(serialize_all = "snake_case")]
  enum Brightness {
      DarkBlack,
      Dim {
          glow: usize,
      },
      #[strum(serialize = "bright")]
      BrightWhite,
  }
   
  assert_eq!(
      String::from("dark_black"),
      Brightness::DarkBlack.to_string().as_ref()
  );
  assert_eq!(
      String::from("dim"),
      Brightness::Dim { glow: 0 }.to_string().as_ref()
  );
  assert_eq!(
      String::from("bright"),
      Brightness::BrightWhite.to_string().as_ref()
  );

• You can also apply the #[strum(ascii_case_insensitive)] attribute to the enum, and this has the same effect of applying it to every variant.

Attributes on Variants

Custom attributes are applied to a variant by adding #[strum(parameter="value")] to the variant.

• serialize="...": Changes the text that FromStr() looks for when parsing a string. This attribute can be applied multiple times to an element and the enum variant will be parsed if any of them match.

• to_string="...": Similar to serialize. This value will be included when using FromStr(). More importantly, this specifies what text to use when calling variant.to_string() with the Display derivation, or when calling variant.as_ref() with AsRefStr.

• default: Applied to a single variant of an enum. The variant must be a Tuple-like variant with a single piece of data that can be create from a &str i.e. T: From<&str>. The generated code will now return the variant with the input string captured as shown below instead of failing.

  // Replaces this:
  _ => Err(strum::ParseError::VariantNotFound)
  // With this in generated code:
  default => Ok(Variant(default.into()))

  The plugin will fail if the data doesn’t implement From<&str>. You can only have one default on your enum.

• disabled: removes variant from generated code.

• ascii_case_insensitive: makes the comparison to this variant case insensitive (ASCII only). If the whole enum is marked ascii_case_insensitive, you can specify ascii_case_insensitive = false to disable case insensitivity on this v ariant.

• message="..": Adds a message to enum variant. This is used in conjunction with the EnumMessage trait to associate a message with a variant. If detailed_message is not provided, then message will also be returned when get_detailed_message is called.

• detailed_message="..": Adds a more detailed message to a variant. If this value is omitted, then message will be used in it’s place.

• Structured documentation, as in /// ...: If using EnumMessage, is accessible via get_documentation().

• props(key="value"): Enables associating additional information with a given variant.