Direct Dependency References In

API ID: CountDirectDepRefsIn
Languages: Any
Targets: Architectures

Total number of dependency references from other architectures into this architecture's own entities only.

References into descendants are excluded.

In the sample below, for "project", only references into main.cpp count (api.cpp and ui.cpp are in child architectures). The 7 references from main_test.cpp to main.cpp give CountDirectDepRefsIn = 7; the 5 references from api_test.cpp to api.cpp do not count.

Compare to CountDepRefsIn (all references into this subtree) and CountDirectDepsIn (number of dependent architectures).

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