Function extractCppReceiverType

src/extraction/languages/c-cpp.ts:86–101

(node: SyntaxNode, source: string)

}

function extractCppReceiverType(node: SyntaxNode, source: string): string | undefined {
  const declarator = getChildByField(node, 'declarator');
  if (!declarator) return undefined;
  const qid = findDeclaratorQualifiedId(declarator);
  if (!qid) return undefined;
  const parts = getNodeText(qid, source).trim().split('::').filter(Boolean);
  if (parts.length <= 1) return undefined;
  // An out-of-line template method definition carries the class's template
  // parameter list in the qualifier (`template<typename T> T Box<T>::get()`),
  // but the class node is indexed as bare `Box` — strip `<…>` so the receiver
  // matches it, the same normalization #1043 applies to base-class refs.
  // Multi-line parameter lists otherwise leak whole `<…>` blocks (newlines
  // included) into qualified_name, which can exceed NAME_MAX (#1286).
  const receiver = stripCppTemplateArgs(parts.slice(0, -1).join('::'));
  return receiver || undefined;
}

/**
 * Built-in / non-class return types that can never be a method receiver. We