Metric-MaximumNesting

Maximum Nesting

Required inputs: RFG

Counts the maximum nesting level of syntactic levels inside a routine.

Metric.Maximum_Nesting differs from Metric.Maximum_Extended_Nesting by its treatment of else if-statements: Metric.Maximum_Nesting does not increase the nesting level by one for each else if-statement.

Possible Messages

This rule has no predefined messages.

Options

• This rule shares the following common options: exclude_messages_in_system_headers, excludes, includes, justification_checker, post_processing, provider, severity

• This rule shares the following common metric options: base_view_name, excluded_node_types, hierarchy_edge_name, hierarchy_view_name, propagate, report_all_values, report_propagated_values

• The following places define options that affect this rule: Analysis-GlobalOptions

display_name

display_name : str | None = 'Maximum Nesting'

Description of the metric shown in the dashboard. If None, rfg_metric_name is used.

 

max_value

max_value : int | None = 7

Maximum allowed value. None if unlimited.

 

min_value

min_value : int | None = 0

Minimum allowed value. None if unlimited.

 

rfg_metric_name

rfg_metric_name : str = 'Metric.Maximum_Nesting'

Name of the node attribute storing the metric value in the RFG.