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Both observations in the issue are accurate. extract_callee returns the rightmost identifier, so <Icons.Arrow /> records Arrow. And is_jsx_host_element returns early for a member_expression, so <icons.Arrow /> with a lowercase root is kept as a component and also recorded as Arrow.

The issue asks for a decision, documentation and a pinning test rather than reporting a defect. This keeps the current behaviour, and writes down why.

The decision: rightmost segment

The deciding argument is linkage, not developer grep habits.

Definitions are indexed under their bare declared name. A component reached as Icons.Arrow is declared somewhere as export function Arrow, and find_callers matches lower(callee) against that name. Storing the full member path would leave the reference matching no definition — reintroducing precisely the invisibility that indexing JSX call sites was added to fix in #58.

It also keeps JSX consistent with the rest of the extractor, where obj.method() already records method. Special-casing JSX to store dotted paths would make vera references behave differently depending on whether the call site happened to be JSX.

Verified end-to-end on a real index:

$ vera references Arrow
src/toolbar.tsx:4-7 function:Toolbar
    return <div><Icons.Arrow /><span /></div>;

Lowercase roots

<icons.Arrow /> staying a component is correct rather than an oversight. TypeScript's intrinsic test applies only to identifiers — a property access is never intrinsic, whatever the case of its root. So a dotted tag is always a value lookup, and treating icons.Arrow as an HTML tag would drop a real reference.

The trade-off, stated rather than hidden

Two components sharing a final segment (Icons.Arrow and Shapes.Arrow) collapse onto one name. Separating them needs import and module resolution, which this layer does not do — it reads one file at a time with no cross-file symbol table. That limitation is now in the module documentation rather than being something a reader has to infer from the code.

Test

jsx_dotted_components_index_under_the_rightmost_segment pins all four properties: the uppercase-rooted dotted component indexes as its rightmost segment, the lowercase-rooted one does too, no callee carries a dotted path, and intrinsic host elements (div, span) stay out of the call graph. If someone later switches to full member paths, that test is where the decision gets re-opened deliberately instead of silently.

773 vera-core tests, cargo fmt --check clean, clippy unchanged.

Fixes #76


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Pins and documents the naming convention for dotted JSX components in vera-core parsing to preserve reference → definition links. Behavior is unchanged: we index the rightmost segment (e.g., <Icons.Arrow />Arrow), consistent with obj.method().

  • Documents in references.rs that dotted JSX tags index by their rightmost segment; member expressions with lowercase roots remain components; bare host elements are excluded by the lowercase or hyphen rule (e.g., div, my-element, My-element).
  • Adds test jsx_dotted_components_index_under_the_rightmost_segment asserting the exact callee set (Arrow, Chevron), including <My-element /> to cover the hyphen rule; ensures no dotted paths or host elements leak into references.
  • Notes the trade-off: components sharing a final segment collapse onto one name; import/module resolution is out of scope for this layer.

Written for commit bff96b3. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Documentation

    • Added documentation clarifying how dotted callees and JSX member expressions are normalized, including known symbol-resolution limitations.
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    • Added TSX coverage for dotted JSX components.
    • Verified handling of uppercase and lowercase member expressions, while excluding intrinsic elements and full dotted paths from call-site references.

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The parser documentation defines rightmost-segment naming for dotted callees. A TSX integration test verifies this behavior for uppercase and lowercase JSX member expressions and excludes intrinsic elements and full dotted paths.

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JSX reference normalization

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Document and validate JSX member naming
crates/vera-core/src/parsing/references.rs, crates/vera-core/src/parsing/tests.rs
The documentation defines rightmost-segment indexing and symbol-collision limits. The TSX test validates member-expression indexing and intrinsic-element exclusion.

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The PR documents the existing dotted JSX naming behavior and pins it with tests covering component references and intrinsic host elements, including hyphenated tags; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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In `@crates/vera-core/src/parsing/references.rs`:
- Around line 20-23: Update the documentation paragraph near is_jsx_host_element
to state that intrinsic host elements require a bare lowercase identifier
without hyphens, while preserving the explanation that lowercase member
expressions are value lookups.

In `@crates/vera-core/src/parsing/tests.rs`:
- Around line 441-457: Strengthen the reference assertions in the affected
parsing test by asserting that the complete callee set contains only the
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Both findings valid, fixed in f0d46b6. cubic and CodeRabbit caught the same doc gap independently.

The hyphen rule was missing from the documentation. The paragraph said only a bare lowercase identifier is an intrinsic host element, which is half of what is_jsx_host_element implements. Any bare name containing a hyphen is intrinsic whatever its case, because that is the custom-element form and TypeScript emits <My-element /> as a string rather than a value lookup. Documenting one condition and not the other would have implied every non-dotted capitalized tag is a component, which is the opposite of what the code does.

The paragraph now states both intrinsic forms for bare tags, and keeps them separate from the member-expression case, where the intrinsic test never applies at all.

The test used contains, so extra references would have passed. Correct, and this is the failure mode most worth catching here: a root segment leaking in as its own reference (Icons, icons) is exactly what a dotted-name change would produce, and a containment check cannot see it. The test now asserts the exact set ["Arrow", "Chevron"].

The fixture also gained <My-element /> so the hyphen rule is covered by a test rather than only described in prose. It sits alongside <div> and <span>, so the assertion now exercises both intrinsic forms.

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Correct, and thank you for catching it. Fixed in 9633997.

The fixture did not contain <My-element />. The edit that was meant to add it never reached the file, and I did not check before writing the comment that says it covers the hyphen rule. So the claim was in three places (the code comment, the commit message for f0d46b6, and my reply above saying "the fixture also gained <My-element />") and true in none of them. The exact-set assertion passed for an unrelated reason.

The tag is in the fixture now, and the assertion demonstrably depends on it. Removing || text.contains('-') from is_jsx_host_element:

left:  ["Arrow", "Chevron", "My-element"]
right: ["Arrow", "Chevron"]

So a hyphenated tag leaking into the call graph now fails the test rather than being described in prose.

Worth noting this is the second time in this PR that the gap was between what the test claimed and what it checked, which is what the exact-set change was supposed to fix in the first place. Verifying by breaking the production rule, rather than by reading the test, is what caught it both times.

773 vera-core tests, cargo fmt --check clean, clippy unchanged at the 5 pre-existing warnings.

VeraTools#76 asked for the convention to be decided, documented and tested rather
than left implicit. Keeping the current behaviour — a callee is stored under
its rightmost segment, so `<Icons.Arrow />` records `Arrow`.

The reason is linkage, not convenience. Definitions are indexed under their
bare declared name: a component reached as `Icons.Arrow` is declared
somewhere as `export function Arrow`, and `find_callers` matches the callee
against that name. Storing `Icons.Arrow` would leave the reference matching
no definition, reintroducing exactly the invisibility that indexing JSX call
sites was added to fix. It also keeps JSX consistent with every other member
call, where `obj.method()` already records `method`.

A lowercase root does not change it: `<icons.Arrow />` is a member
expression, and a member expression is always a value lookup — only a bare
lowercase identifier is an intrinsic host element. That matches TypeScript,
where the intrinsic test only applies to identifiers, never to property
accesses.

The trade-off is documented rather than hidden: two components sharing a
final segment collapse onto one name, and separating them needs import and
module resolution this layer does not do.

The test pins all of it, including that no callee carries a dotted path and
that intrinsic host elements stay out of the call graph.
The new paragraph said only a bare lowercase identifier is intrinsic, which
omits the other half of the rule `is_jsx_host_element` implements: any bare
name containing a hyphen is intrinsic whatever its case, because that is the
custom-element form. Documenting one condition and not the other would have
implied every non-dotted capitalized tag is a component.

The test asserted with `contains`, so a root segment leaking in as its own
reference — `Icons` or `icons` — would have passed unnoticed, which is the
failure mode most worth catching here. It now asserts the exact set, and the
fixture includes `<My-element />` so the hyphen rule is covered rather than
just described.
f0d46b6 claimed the fixture covered the hyphen rule and it did not. The edit
that was supposed to add `<My-element />` never reached the file, so the
comment and that commit message both described coverage that was absent,
while the exact-set assertion passed for an unrelated reason.

The tag is in the fixture now, and the assertion is what proves the rule:
removing `|| text.contains('-')` from `is_jsx_host_element` makes the test
fail with

  left:  ["Arrow", "Chevron", "My-element"]
  right: ["Arrow", "Chevron"]

so a hyphenated tag leaking into the call graph is caught rather than merely
asserted in prose.
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JSX member-expression components index under the rightmost segment only (<Foo.Bar/> becomes Bar)

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