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<main><divclass="width-limiter"><navclass="sub"><formclass="search-form"><span></span><divid="sidebar-button"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../clap_builder/all.html"title="show sidebar"></a></div><inputclass="search-input"name="search"aria-label="Run search in the documentation"autocomplete="off"spellcheck="false"placeholder="Click or press ‘S’ to search, ‘?’ for more options…"type="search"><divid="help-button"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../help.html"title="help">?</a></div><divid="settings-menu"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../settings.html"title="settings"><imgwidth="22"height="22"alt="Change settings"src="../static.files/wheel-7b819b6101059cd0.svg"></a></div></form></nav><sectionid="main-content"class="content"><divclass="main-heading"><h1>Trait <ahref="index.html">clap_builder</a>::<wbr><aclass="trait"href="#">Args</a><buttonid="copy-path"title="Copy item path to clipboard"><imgsrc="../static.files/clipboard-7571035ce49a181d.svg"width="19"height="18"alt="Copy item path"></button></h1><spanclass="out-of-band"><aclass="src"href="../src/clap_builder/derive.rs.html#214-229">source</a> · <buttonid="toggle-all-docs"title="collapse all docs">[<span>−</span>]</button></span></div><preclass="rust item-decl"><code>pub trait Args: <aclass="trait"href="trait.FromArgMatches.html"title="trait clap_builder::FromArgMatches">FromArgMatches</a> + <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.76.0/core/marker/trait.Sized.html"title="trait core::marker::Sized">Sized</a> {
}</code></pre><detailsclass="toggle top-doc"open><summaryclass="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Parse a set of arguments into a user-defined container.</p>
<p>Implementing this trait lets a parent container delegate argument parsing behavior to <code>Self</code>.
with:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>#[command(flatten)] args: ChildArgs</code>: Attribute can only be used with struct fields that impl
<code>Args</code>.</li>
<li><code>Variant(ChildArgs)</code>: No attribute is used with enum variants that impl <code>Args</code>.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Deriving requires the <code>derive</code> feature flag</p>
</div></details><h2id="required-methods"class="section-header">Required Methods<ahref="#required-methods"class="anchor">§</a></h2><divclass="methods"><detailsclass="toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="tymethod.augment_args"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../src/clap_builder/derive.rs.html#222">source</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="#tymethod.augment_args"class="fn">augment_args</a>(cmd: <aclass="struct"href="builder/struct.Command.html"title="struct clap_builder::builder::Command">Command</a>) -><aclass="struct"href="builder/struct.Command.html"title="struct clap_builder::builder::Command">Command</a></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Append to <ahref="builder/struct.Command.html"title="struct clap_builder::builder::Command"><code>Command</code></a> so it can instantiate <code>Self</code>.</p>
<p>See also <ahref="trait.CommandFactory.html"title="trait clap_builder::CommandFactory"><code>CommandFactory</code></a>.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="tymethod.augment_args_for_update"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../src/clap_builder/derive.rs.html#228">source</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="#tymethod.augment_args_for_update"class="fn">augment_args_for_update</a>(cmd: <aclass="struct"href="builder/struct.Command.html"title="struct clap_builder::builder::Command">Command</a>) -><aclass="struct"href="builder/struct.Command.html"title="struct clap_builder::builder::Command">Command</a></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Append to <ahref="builder/struct.Command.html"title="struct clap_builder::builder::Command"><code>Command</code></a> so it can update <code>self</code>.</p>
<p>This is used to implement <code>#[command(flatten)]</code></p>
<p>See also <ahref="trait.CommandFactory.html"title="trait clap_builder::CommandFactory"><code>CommandFactory</code></a>.</p>
</div></details></div><h2id="provided-methods"class="section-header">Provided Methods<ahref="#provided-methods"class="anchor">§</a></h2><divclass="methods"><detailsclass="toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.group_id"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../src/clap_builder/derive.rs.html#216-218">source</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="#method.group_id"class="fn">group_id</a>() -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.76.0/core/option/enum.Option.html"title="enum core::option::Option">Option</a><<aclass="struct"href="struct.Id.html"title="struct clap_builder::Id">Id</a>></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Report the <ahref="builder/struct.ArgGroup.html#method.id"title="method clap_builder::builder::ArgGroup::id"><code>ArgGroup::id</code></a> for this set of arguments</p>
