Module 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 🔒

ObjectLifetimeDefault 🔒

ParamDefaults 🔒

Whether to clean generic parameter defaults or not.

ParamsSrc 🔒

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_assoc_item_constraint 🔒

clean_bare_fn_ty 🔒

clean_bound_vars 🔒

clean_const 🔒

clean_const_item_rhs 🔒

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_params 🔒

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_params 🔒

clean_params_via_body 🔒

clean_path 🔒

clean_path_segment 🔒

clean_poly_fn_sig 🔒

clean_poly_trait_predicate 🔒

clean_poly_trait_ref 🔒

clean_poly_trait_ref_with_constraints 🔒

clean_precise_capturing_arg 🔒

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_constraints 🔒

clean_ty 🔒

clean_ty_alias_inner_type 🔒

clean_ty_generics 🔒

clean_ty_generics_inner 🔒

clean_type_outlives_predicate 🔒

clean_unsafe_binder_ty 🔒

clean_use_statement 🔒

clean_use_statement_inner 🔒

clean_variant 🔒

clean_variant_data 🔒

clean_variant_def 🔒

clean_variant_def_with_args 🔒

clean_where_predicate 🔒

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 🔒

should_fully_qualify_path 🔒