Macros for all your token pasting needs

pastey is the fork of paste and is aimed to be a drop-in replacement with additional features for paste crate

Migrating from paste crate to pastey is super simple, just change the following in your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
- paste = "1"
+ pastey = "*" # Or any specific version of pastey

Or even better way:

[dependencies]
- paste = "1"
+ paste = { package = "pastey", version = "*" }

Quick Start

Add pastey as your dependency in Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
# TODO: Replace with latest version available on crates.io
pastey = "*"

This approach works with any Rust compiler 1.54+.

Pasting identifiers

Within the paste! macro, identifiers inside [<...>] are pasted together to form a single identifier.

use pastey::paste;

paste! {
    // Defines a const called `QRST`.
    const [<Q R S T>]: &str = "success!";
}

fn main() {
    assert_eq!(
        paste! { [<Q R S T>].len() },
        8,
    );
}

More elaborate example

The next example shows a macro that generates accessor methods for some struct fields. It demonstrates how you might find it useful to bundle a paste invocation inside of a macro_rules macro.

use pastey::paste;

macro_rules! make_a_struct_and_getters {
    ($name:ident { $($field:ident),* }) => {
        // Define a struct. This expands to:
        //
        //     pub struct S {
        //         a: String,
        //         b: String,
        //         c: String,
        //     }
        pub struct $name {
            $(
                $field: String,
            )*
        }

        // Build an impl block with getters. This expands to:
        //
        //     impl S {
        //         pub fn get_a(&self) -> &str { &self.a }
        //         pub fn get_b(&self) -> &str { &self.b }
        //         pub fn get_c(&self) -> &str { &self.c }
        //     }
        paste! {
            impl $name {
                $(
                    pub fn [<get_ $field>](&self) -> &str {
                        &self.$field
                    }
                )*
            }
        }
    }
}

make_a_struct_and_getters!(S { a, b, c });

fn call_some_getters(s: &S) -> bool {
    s.get_a() == s.get_b() && s.get_c().is_empty()
}

Case conversion

The pastey crate supports the following case modfiers:

NOTE: The pastey crate is going to be a drop in replacement to paste crate, and will not change the behaviour of existing modifier like lower, upper, snake and camel. For modifying the behaviour new modifiers will be created, like camel_edge

You can also use multiple of these modifers like $var:snake:upper would give you SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE.

Example

use pastey::paste;

paste! {
    const [<LIB env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"):snake:upper>]: &str = "libpastey";

    let _ = LIBPASTEY;
}

The precise Unicode conversions are as defined by str::to_lowercase and str::to_uppercase.

Replace modifier

The replace modifier allows you to perform string replacement on identifiers, using the same semantics as str::replace. This is useful for transforming identifiers by removing or substituting substrings.

use pastey::paste;

macro_rules! m {
    ($($command:ident),+) => {
        paste! {
            $(pub struct $command {})*
            
            pub enum Command {
                $(
                    [< $command:replace("Command", "") >] ( $command )
                ),*
            }
        }
    }
}

m! {
    CommandFoo,
    CommandBar
}

let command_bar = Command::Bar(CommandBar {});
let command_foo = Command::Foo(CommandFoo {});

Raw Identifier Generation

pastey now supports raw identifiers using a special raw mode. By prefixing a token with # inside the paste syntax, it treats that token as a raw identifier.

use pastey::paste;

macro_rules! define_struct_and_impl {
    ($name:ident $(- $name_tail:ident)*) => {
        paste!{
            struct [< # $name:camel $( $name_tail)* >]; // '#' signals a raw identifier

            impl [< # $name:camel $( $name_tail)* >] {
                fn [< # $name:snake $( _ $name_tail:snake)* >]() {}
            }

        }
    }
}

define_struct_and_impl!(loop);
define_struct_and_impl!(loop - xyz);

fn test_fn() {
    let _ = Loop::r#loop();
    let _ = Loopxyz::loop_xyz();
}

Pasting documentation strings

Within the paste! macro, arguments to a #[doc ...] attribute are implicitly concatenated together to form a coherent documentation string.

use pastey::paste;

macro_rules! method_new {
    ($ret:ident) => {
        paste! {
            #[doc = "Create a new `" $ret "` object."]
            pub fn new() -> $ret { todo!() }
        }
    };
}

pub struct Pastey {}

method_new!(Pastey);  // expands to #[doc = "Create a new `Paste` object"]

Credits

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