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by asm 3839 days ago
We'd like to get there eventually. Phan populates a sqlite database when analyzing code (if run with the -s flag). This allows fast runs on single file changes or patches. We're hoping to use this for things like auto-complete and finding callers for a class/method/whatever eventually.

For now, we have a primordial Syntastic vim plugin (https://github.com/etsy/phan/blob/master/plugins/vim/bundle/...) for getting errors into the quickfix view.
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cweagans 3839 days ago
That's awesome. If a PR was opened that added autocomplete and/or finding callers and/or refactoring (and assuming that the code is good), would you guys be open to merging it? Or would it be delayed so that the core functionality can be focused on?
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asm 3839 days ago
Definitely.

If you want to start working on that, feel free to open up an issue (https://github.com/etsy/phan/issues/new) to start a conversation about it.

We currently store method/function callers in the sqlite database (see https://github.com/etsy/phan/blob/master/src/Phan/Analyze/Br...), but aren't yet exposing an interface for getting callers. We'll want to store callers for constants, classes, properties and global variables as well.

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