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Support --depth for graphviz output format#538

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Fridayai700:graphviz-depth-support
Feb 19, 2026
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Support --depth for graphviz output format#538
gaborbernat merged 7 commits intotox-dev:mainfrom
Fridayai700:graphviz-depth-support

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Summary

  • Extend --depth support to graphviz output format (was text/freeze only)
  • Use BFS from root nodes to limit graph depth, supporting both forward and reverse modes
  • Update CLI help text to reflect the expanded format support
  • Add tests for depth=0 (roots only) and depth=1 (one level of deps)

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The --depth flag was explicitly limited to "text and freeze render only". This PR extends it to graphviz output by performing a BFS traversal from root nodes and only including nodes/edges within the specified depth.

For forward mode, root nodes are packages that aren't dependencies of any other package. For reverse mode, root nodes are packages that aren't parents of any other package.

When max_depth is infinite (the default), the original flat iteration is used unchanged for zero overhead.

Fixes #494

Fridayai700 and others added 2 commits February 17, 2026 22:32
The --depth option was only supported for text and freeze output
formats. This change extends it to graphviz output as well, using
BFS from root nodes to limit the depth of the rendered graph.

Both forward and reverse graph modes support depth limiting.

Fixes tox-dev#494

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Please run and fix the pre-ocmmit checks.

Add noqa comments for too-many-branches, too-many-statements,
and too-many-nested-blocks in dump_graphviz. The function already
has C901 suppressed; depth-limiting inherently adds branches
to the graph rendering logic.

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Fixed — added noqa suppressions for PLR0912 (too many branches), PLR0915 (too many statements), and PLR1702 (too many nested blocks). The function already had C901 suppressed; the depth-limiting logic inherently adds branches to the rendering path.

All pre-commit checks pass locally.

@gaborbernat gaborbernat requested a review from kemzeb February 17, 2026 23:27
@gaborbernat gaborbernat marked this pull request as draft February 17, 2026 23:27
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check / test (type) (pull_request)
check / test (type) (pull_request)Failing after 30s failing.

PackageDAG.__getitem__ returns list[ReqPackage] | None,
so guard against None before iterating.

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Fixed — the type check failure was a mypy union-attr error. PackageDAG.__getitem__ returns list[ReqPackage] | None, so added a None guard before iterating. Pushed in commit c5d4984.

- Extract _build_reverse_graph() and _build_forward_graph() helpers
  to reduce complexity of dump_graphviz()
- Use tree.get_node_as_parent(key) for O(1) lookup instead of
  looping over all tree nodes in reverse BFS
- Add tests for reverse mode with finite depth and infinite depth

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Addressed all review items:

  1. Helper functions: Extracted _build_reverse_graph() and _build_forward_graph() to reduce complexity of dump_graphviz()
  2. get_node_as_parent: Replaced the O(n) loop with tree.get_node_as_parent(key) for efficient lookup in reverse BFS
  3. Tests: Added test_render_dot_reverse_with_depth (finite depth=1) and test_render_dot_reverse_infinite_depth (no depth limit)

All tests pass (the test_local_only failure is pre-existing — virtualenv path issue on the test environment).

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Addressed all review items:

pre-commit.ci - pr — checks completed with failures

Please always check this passes before you say any PR is ready.

Simplifies the parent lookup in the reverse depth-limited BFS by using
tree.get_children(), consistent with the forward graph builder.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Good catch — switched to tree.get_children(key) for the reverse BFS traversal, consistent with how the forward graph builder already works. 4 lines simpler.

The BFS traversal + graph construction logic requires branching
that exceeds ruff's default limits. These are inherited from the
original dump_graphviz function.

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@gaborbernat gaborbernat requested a review from kemzeb February 18, 2026 03:55
@Fridayai700 Fridayai700 marked this pull request as ready for review February 18, 2026 14:17
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All feedback addressed. Pre-commit.ci and all CI checks now pass. Ready for re-review.

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Hi @kemzeb — all your feedback from the latest review round is addressed:

  1. Helper functions: Split into _build_reverse_graph() and _build_forward_graph(), each returning a populated Digraph (commit b5da252)
  2. tree.get_children(): Replaced the manual parent lookup loop with tree.get_children(key) for the reverse BFS (commit 3cfdfc2)
  3. Reverse + depth tests: Added both test_render_dot_reverse_with_depth (finite, max_depth=1) and test_render_dot_reverse_infinite_depth (infinite)

All CI green. Ready for re-review when you have time.

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I believe this looks good

@gaborbernat gaborbernat enabled auto-merge (squash) February 19, 2026 05:25
@gaborbernat gaborbernat merged commit 79cfad3 into tox-dev:main Feb 19, 2026
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--graph-output does not respect --depth or --packages arguments

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