StructOpt and conditional required argument

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I've got something like the following struct:

#[derive(Debug, StructOpt)]
#[structopt(about = "Foo")]
struct Options {
    #[structopt(short, long)]
    pub output: PathBuf,

    #[structopt(short, long))]
    pub foo: Option<PathBuf>,

    #[structopt(long, required_unless("foo"))]
    pub barOption<PathBuf>,

    #[structopt(short, long)]
    pub debug: bool,
}

I want to have argument bar as required if argument foo is present. Unfortunately the behavior above is exactly the opposite. I've seen in the documentation that there is a required_if. But this parameter needs a specific value, but the value for foo is arbitrary. So is there something like required_if("foo") possible?

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This isn't an answer to your question, but if you were willing to give up the short arguments, you could use auto-args:

#[derive(Debug, AutoArgs)]
struct Fooness {
  /// Documentation for foo
  foo: PathBuf,
  barOption: PathBuf,
}

#[derive(Debug, AutoArgs)]
struct Options {
    pub output: PathBuf,
    pub _foo: Option<Fooness>,
    pub debug: bool,
}

auto-args isn't for you, though, if you want short options, or in general need to fine tune your interface.

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