[Feature request] Allow set default control type for all types

[dartess]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I cannot set the default control type for my props

Describe the solution you'd like

Control addon already has Custom control type matchers. But it allows you to configure only two types of controls.

Are you able to assist to bring the feature to reality?

I can do MVP. But I don't know much about the internal implementation of the project and may be missing something.

[shilman]

@dartess can you share a bit more about your use case?

[dartess]

The children prop in React is completely useless at the moment (or I haven't found how to cook it).

Control is displayed as JSON and cannot be changed in a convenient way.

I would like to set the default control type as null for it:

    matchers: {
      color: /(background|color)$/i,
      date: /Date$/,
      null: /^children$/,
    },

and override it as needed in the component's documentation.

[shilman]

@yannbf thoughts?

[dartess]

Another example:

Callback controls are completely useless. I would also like to specify null type for all props that start with "on".

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[mirka]

I think it would be a huge improvement in TypeScript contexts if we could have more control over matchers.

We have a lot of controls auto-generated via react-docgen-typescript, and run into things like:

• A control for the prop color does match the regex, but doesn’t become a Color control because our internal type for the prop is React.CSSProperties['color'], instead of string.
• A control for the prop size has the internal type React.CSSProperties['fontSize'], but we want it to just be a String control.

And because this kind of thing happens on many different components, it would be great if they could be regex-matched globally instead of configured per-component.