CWE-1074¶
Class with Excessively Deep Inheritance. [Complexity-Issues, Improper-Adherence-To-Coding-Standards]
Required inputs: IR
This issue makes it more difficult to understand and maintain the product, which indirectly affects security by making it more difficult or time-consuming to find and/or fix vulnerabilities. It also might make it easier to introduce vulnerabilities.
While the interpretation of "large number of parent classes" may vary for each product or developer, CISQ recommends a default maximum of 7 parent classes.
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Key |
Text |
Severity |
Disabled |
|---|---|---|---|
inheritance_level |
A class has an inheritance level that is too high, i.e., it has a large number of parent classes. |
None |
False |
Options¶
This rule shares the following common options: exclude_in_macros, exclude_messages_in_system_headers, excludes, extend_exclude_to_macro_invocations, includes, justification_checker, languages, post_processing, provider, report_at, severity
The following places define options that affect this rule: Stylechecks, Analysis-GlobalOptions
limit¶
limit : int = 7