Dependency References In

API ID: CountDepRefsIn
Languages: Any
Targets: Architectures

Total number of dependency references from other architectures into this one or its descendants.

Each reference (e.g. an include or use) is counted, so this can be larger than the number of dependent architectures.

In the sample below, for "project", references in are 7 (main_test.cpp→main.cpp) plus 5 (api_test.cpp→api.cpp), so CountDepRefsIn is 12.

Compare to CountDepsIn (number of dependent architectures) and CountDirectDepRefsIn (references only into this architecture's own entities).

Consider a directory-style architecture and dependencies:

• project
  • api
    • api.cpp
  • ui
    • ui.cpp
  • main.cpp
• libraries
  • library1
    • ibrary1.cpp
  • library2
    • library2.cpp
• tests
  • main
    • main_test.cpp
  • api
    • api_test.cpp

Dependencies (with reference counts):

1. main.cpp → api.cpp (3 refs)
2. main.cpp → ui.cpp (9 refs)
3. main.cpp → library1.cpp (8 refs)
4. api.cpp → library1.cpp (6 refs)
5. ui.cpp → library2.cpp (4 refs)
6. ui.cpp → api.cpp (2 refs)
7. main_test.cpp → main.cpp (7 refs)
8. api_test.cpp → api.cpp (5 refs)

For project, the metrics are:

Metric	Value
CountDepsIn	2
CountDepsOut	2
CountDepRefsIn	12
CountDepRefsOut	18
CountDirectDepsIn	1
CountDirectDepsOut	3
CountDirectDepRefsIn	7
CountDirectDepRefsOut	20
CountMajorDepsIn	1
CountMajorDepsOut	1