Module rustdoc::clean

This module defines the primary IR¹ used in rustdoc together with the procedures that transform rustc data types into it.

This IR — commonly referred to as the cleaned AST — is modeled after the AST.

There are two kinds of transformation — cleaning — procedures:

1. Cleans HIR types. Used for user-written code and inlined local re-exports both found in the local crate.
2. Cleans rustc_middle::ty types. Used for inlined cross-crate re-exports and anything output by the trait solver (e.g., when synthesizing blanket and auto-trait impls). They usually have ty or middle in their name.

Their name is prefixed by clean_.

Both the HIR and the rustc_middle::ty IR are quite removed from the source code. The cleaned AST on the other hand is closer to it which simplifies the rendering process. Furthermore, operating on a single IR instead of two avoids duplicating efforts down the line.

This IR is consumed by both the HTML and the JSON backend.

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1. Intermediate representation. ↩

Modules

• auto_trait 🔒
• blanket_impl 🔒
• cfg 🔒
  The representation of a #[doc(cfg(...))] attribute.
• inline 🔒
  Support for inlining external documentation into the current AST.
• render_macro_matchers 🔒
• simplify 🔒
  Simplification of where-clauses and parameter bounds into a prettier and more canonical form.
• types 🔒
• utils 🔒

Enums

• ContainerTy 🔒
• FunctionArgs 🔒
• ObjectLifetimeDefault 🔒
• ParamDefaults 🔒
  Whether to clean generic parameter defaults or not.

Functions

• add_without_unwanted_attributes 🔒
  When inlining items, we merge their attributes (and all the reexports attributes too) with the final reexport. For example:
• can_elide_trait_object_lifetime_bound 🔒
• clean_args_from_types_and_body_id 🔒
• clean_args_from_types_and_names 🔒
• clean_bare_fn_ty 🔒
• clean_bound_vars 🔒
• clean_const 🔒
• clean_doc_module 🔒
• clean_extern_crate 🔒
• clean_field 🔒
• clean_field_with_def_id 🔒
• clean_fn_decl_legacy_const_generics 🔒
  This is needed to make it more “readable” when documenting functions using rustc_legacy_const_generics. More information in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/83167.
• clean_fn_decl_with_args 🔒
• clean_fn_or_proc_macro 🔒
• clean_function 🔒
• clean_generic_args 🔒
• clean_generic_bound 🔒
• clean_generic_param 🔒
• clean_generic_param_def 🔒
• clean_generics 🔒
• clean_hir_term 🔒
• clean_impl 🔒
• clean_impl_item 🔒
• clean_lifetime 🔒
• clean_maybe_renamed_foreign_item 🔒
• clean_maybe_renamed_item 🔒
• clean_middle_assoc_item 🔒
• clean_middle_const 🔒
• clean_middle_field 🔒
• clean_middle_opaque_bounds 🔒
• clean_middle_region 🔒
• clean_middle_term 🔒
• clean_middle_ty 🔒
• clean_path 🔒
• clean_path_segment 🔒
• clean_poly_fn_sig 🔒
• clean_poly_trait_predicate 🔒
• clean_poly_trait_ref 🔒
• clean_poly_trait_ref_with_bindings 🔒
• clean_predicate 🔒
• clean_proc_macro 🔒
• clean_projection 🔒
• clean_projection_predicate 🔒
• clean_qpath 🔒
• clean_region_outlives_predicate 🔒
• clean_trait_item 🔒
• clean_trait_object_lifetime_bound 🔒
• clean_trait_ref 🔒
• clean_trait_ref_with_bindings 🔒
• clean_ty 🔒
• clean_ty_alias_inner_type 🔒
• clean_ty_generics 🔒
• clean_type_binding 🔒
• clean_type_outlives_predicate 🔒
• clean_use_statement 🔒
• clean_use_statement_inner 🔒
• clean_variant 🔒
• clean_variant_data 🔒
• clean_variant_def 🔒
• clean_variant_def_with_args 🔒
• clean_where_predicate 🔒
• compute_should_show_cast 🔒
• filter_doc_attr 🔒
  Remove attributes from normal that should not be inherited by use re-export. Before calling this function, make sure normal is a #[doc] attribute.
• filter_doc_attr_ident 🔒
• filter_tokens_from_list 🔒
• first_non_private 🔒
  The goal of this function is to return the first Path which is not private (ie not private or doc(hidden)). If it’s not possible, it’ll return the “end type”.
• first_non_private_clean_path 🔒
• generate_item_with_correct_attrs 🔒
• get_all_import_attributes 🔒
  Collect attributes from the whole import chain.
• is_elided_lifetime 🔒
  This can happen for async fn, e.g. async fn f<'_>(&'_ self).
• is_glob_import 🔒
• is_impl_trait 🔒
  Synthetic type-parameters are inserted after normal ones. In order for normal parameters to be able to refer to synthetic ones, scans them first.
• maybe_expand_private_type_alias 🔒
• normalize 🔒
  Returns None if the type could not be normalized
• projection_to_path_segment 🔒
• reexport_chain 🔒