Impact Blast Radius symbol

Impact / Blast Radius (symbol)

Reports what would be affected if a chosen symbol changes -- the set of code to retest. Reach for it before changing a widely-used method or type.

Running it from the CLI

drag-lint impact --qname <Foo.Bar> [--db <file.sqlite>] [--depth N] [--format text|json]

--qname is the fully qualified symbol; --depth bounds how far impact is traced; --format selects text or json.

Reaching it in the IDE

drag-lint > Uses & Dependencies > Impact / Blast Radius (symbol)...

What it needs

Optional. An index is not marked required, but the impact trace is read from whatever has been indexed, so a stale or missing index gives an incomplete answer.

Example

Illustrative only:

drag-lint impact --qname CustomerOrder.TCustomerOrder.Total --db C:\Projects\MyApp\_D-RAG\MyApp.sqlite --depth 3

This would report what is affected, up to 3 levels out, if the Total member of TCustomerOrder changes.