From a3d675ef4d7c0d014ee928e598bcacb8a632470d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colby Mchenry <me@colbymchenry.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:22:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(vue): Options API methods, computed, watchers and hooks
 are symbols (#2140)
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A `<script>` block goes through the TS/JS extractor, which extracts no
symbol for a method in an object literal — so every Vue 2 component, and
every Vue 3 one not on `<script setup>`, had no `handleLogin`, no
`mounted`: their calls, their `this.$router.push`, and the template's
`@click="handleLogin"` all belonged to the file.

`vue-options-api.ts` reads the options object the default export is
(directly, or via defineComponent / Vue.extend / Vue.component) and names
each function in it — `methods`, `computed` (incl. get/set objects),
`watch` (incl. `{ handler }`), `data`, `setup`, lifecycle hooks, Nuxt 2's
asyncData/fetch — as `method` nodes owned by the component; the Vue
extractor re-attributes the references and edges written inside each.

A component's own method is only reached as `this.m()` in that component:
the member-call and exact-name strategies no longer hand it
`e.preventDefault()` (ImageCropper's `preventDefault` method took every
event's call), `this.editor.setValue()`, or `this.$refs['input'].click()`.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 CHANGELOG.md                      |   1 +
 __tests__/vue-options-api.test.ts | 115 +++++++++++++++++
 src/extraction/vue-extractor.ts   |  67 ++++++++++
 src/extraction/vue-options-api.ts | 204 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/resolution/name-matcher.ts    |  24 ++++
 5 files changed, 411 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 __tests__/vue-options-api.test.ts
 create mode 100644 src/extraction/vue-options-api.ts

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f35a34378..766144819 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ and adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ### Fixes
 
+- Vue components written with the Options API (`export default { methods: {…}, computed: {…}, watch: {…}, mounted() {…} }`), as every Vue 2 app is, now have their methods, computed properties, watchers and lifecycle hooks in the graph. Each one has its own callers and calls, and a template's `@click="handleLogin"` links to the method it runs. On vue-element-admin that's over 800 new links, where a component's calls used to belong to the whole file.
 - In Java, Kotlin, Swift, C#, C and C++, Go, Scala, Ruby, Dart and the other case-sensitive languages, a name no longer links to a symbol whose name differs only in case. On jsoup, JUnit's `@Test` had linked every test to a `test` method; `new CookieManager()` had linked to a `cookieManager()` getter, and a `Method` type to a `method()`. PHP, Pascal, CFML, COBOL and VB.NET, whose names really do ignore case, are unchanged.
 - React Native events whose name is held in a constant now link native code to the JavaScript that listens for them, like NetInfo's `addListener(PrivateTypes.DEVICE_CONNECTIVITY_EVENT, …)` or a Java `.emit(PROGRESS_EVENT, …)`. The constant is read the way the language scopes it, from the same file, an import or its owning class, so a parameter that happens to share a constant's name is never mistaken for it.
 - React Native views declared with `requireNativeComponent('X')`, the older Paper style that react-native-maps and segmented-control use, now link from JavaScript to their native iOS and Android implementations, as Codegen specs already did, including in plain `.js` files. A JSX tag written under a different name than its component, like `<Autocomplete>` for `import Autocomplete from './autocomplete.vue'`, now links to the component it renders.
diff --git a/__tests__/vue-options-api.test.ts b/__tests__/vue-options-api.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ba4f9f235
--- /dev/null
+++ b/__tests__/vue-options-api.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+/**
+ * A Vue Options API component's functions are symbols: `methods`, `computed`,
+ * `watch` entries and the lifecycle hooks, each owning the calls written in it.
+ * (`src/extraction/vue-options-api.ts`, wired in `vue-extractor.ts`.)
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect, afterAll } from 'vitest';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as os from 'os';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import { CodeGraph } from '../src';
+import { vueOptionsMembers } from '../src/extraction/vue-options-api';
+
+describe('vueOptionsMembers', () => {
+  it('names every function an options object declares', () => {
+    const script = `
+import { mapActions } from 'vuex'
+export default {
+  name: 'Login',
+  props: { redirect: String },
+  data() {
+    return { loading: false }
+  },
+  computed: {
+    title() { return 'Sign in' },
+    fullName: {
+      get() { return this.first },
+      set(v) { this.first = v }
+    },
+    ...mapGetters(['user'])
+  },
+  watch: {
+    $route: { handler(route) { this.redirect = route.query.redirect }, immediate: true },
+    'form.email'(value) { this.check(value) },
+    loading: 'onLoading'
+  },
+  created() { this.init() },
+  mounted: function () { this.focus() },
+  methods: {
+    ...mapActions(['login']),
+    async handleLogin() { await this.login() },
+    validate: (value) => value.length > 0,
+    reset: function () {},
+    [DYNAMIC]() {}
+  }
+}
+`;
+    expect(vueOptionsMembers(script).map((m) => m.name)).toEqual([
+      'data', 'title', 'fullName', '$route', 'form.email', 'created', 'mounted', 'handleLogin', 'validate', 'reset',
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('reads defineComponent, Vue.extend and Vue.component, and nothing without an options object', () => {
+    expect(vueOptionsMembers(`export default defineComponent({ setup() { return {} } })`).map((m) => m.name)).toEqual(['setup']);
+    expect(vueOptionsMembers(`export default Vue.extend({ methods: { go() {} } })`).map((m) => m.name)).toEqual(['go']);
+    expect(vueOptionsMembers(`export default Vue.component('x-btn', { methods: { tap() {} } })`).map((m) => m.name)).toEqual(['tap']);
+    expect(vueOptionsMembers(`const x = { methods: { go() {} } }\nexport default x`)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('a Vue Options API component, indexed', () => {
+  let root = '';
+  afterAll(() => {
+    if (root) fs.rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  it('gives each method its calls, and the template handler its method', async () => {
+    root = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'cg-vue-options-'));
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.join(root, 'src/views/login'), { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(root, 'package.json'), JSON.stringify({ name: 'admin', dependencies: { vue: '^2.6.0' } }));
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(root, 'src/views/login/index.vue'),
+      `<template>
+  <form>
+    <button @click="handleLogin">Sign in</button>
+  </form>
+</template>
+
+<script>
+export default {
+  name: 'Login',
+  data() {
+    return { loading: false }
+  },
+  methods: {
+    handleLogin() {
+      if (this.validate()) {
+        this.loading = true
+      }
+    },
+    validate() {
+      return true
+    }
+  }
+}
+</script>
+`
+    );
+    const cg = await CodeGraph.init(root, { index: true });
+    try {
+      const nodes = cg.getNodesInFile('src/views/login/index.vue');
+      const method = (name: string) => nodes.find((n) => n.kind === 'method' && n.name === name)!;
+      expect(nodes.filter((n) => n.kind === 'method').map((n) => n.name).sort()).toEqual(['data', 'handleLogin', 'validate']);
+      expect(method('handleLogin').qualifiedName).toBe('index::handleLogin');
+      // The call inside handleLogin is handleLogin's, not the file's.
+      const calls = cg.getOutgoingEdges(method('handleLogin').id).filter((e) => e.kind === 'calls').map((e) => cg.getNode(e.target)!.name);
+      expect(calls).toContain('validate');
+      // `@click="handleLogin"` in the template runs the method.
+      const component = nodes.find((n) => n.kind === 'component')!;
+      const handlers = cg.getOutgoingEdges(component.id).filter((e) => e.target === method('handleLogin').id);
+      expect(handlers.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    } finally {
+      cg.close();
+    }
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/extraction/vue-extractor.ts b/src/extraction/vue-extractor.ts
index 862f17c79..5429a90de 100644
--- a/src/extraction/vue-extractor.ts
+++ b/src/extraction/vue-extractor.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { Node, Edge, ExtractionResult, ExtractionError, UnresolvedReference, Lan
 import { generateNodeId } from './tree-sitter-helpers';
 import { TreeSitterExtractor } from './tree-sitter';
 import { isLanguageSupported } from './grammars';
+import { vueOptionsMembers } from './vue-options-api';
 
 /**
  * Vue built-in components — skipped so a `<Transition>` / `<KeepAlive>` in the
@@ -114,6 +115,67 @@ export class VueExtractor {
     return node;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Method nodes for an Options API component's members (see
+   * ./vue-options-api), and the references and edges written inside each —
+   * which the TS extractor attributed to the file — re-attributed to it.
+   * Lines are block-relative here; the caller offsets them with the rest.
+   */
+  private addOptionsMembers(
+    block: { content: string; startLine: number },
+    result: ExtractionResult,
+    componentNodeId: string
+  ): void {
+    const members = vueOptionsMembers(block.content);
+    if (members.length === 0) return;
+    const component = this.nodes.find((n) => n.id === componentNodeId);
+    const owner = component?.name ?? 'component';
+    const lineAt = (offset: number) => block.content.slice(0, offset).split('\n').length;
+    const colAt = (offset: number) => offset - block.content.lastIndexOf('\n', offset - 1) - 1;
+    const now = Date.now();
+    const created: Node[] = [];
+    for (const m of members) {
+      const startLine = lineAt(m.start);
+      const endLine = lineAt(m.end);
+      created.push({
+        id: generateNodeId(this.filePath, 'method', `${owner}.${m.name}`, startLine + block.startLine),
+        kind: 'method',
+        name: m.name,
+        qualifiedName: `${owner}::${m.name}`,
+        filePath: this.filePath,
+        language: 'vue',
+        startLine,
+        endLine,
+        startColumn: colAt(m.start),
+        endColumn: colAt(m.end),
+        updatedAt: now,
+      });
+    }
+    // Innermost member for a line: `computed: { x: { get() {…} } }` is one member.
+    const memberAt = (line: number): Node | undefined => {
+      let best: Node | undefined;
+      for (const n of created) {
+        if (n.startLine <= line && n.endLine >= line && (!best || n.startLine >= best.startLine)) best = n;
+      }
+      return best;
+    };
+    // What the TS extractor attributed to the file (or to nothing narrower).
+    const fileNode = result.nodes.find((n) => n.kind === 'file');
+    const narrower = new Set(result.nodes.filter((n) => n.kind !== 'file').map((n) => n.id));
+    const isFileLevel = (id: string) => (fileNode ? id === fileNode.id : !narrower.has(id));
+    for (const ref of result.unresolvedReferences) {
+      if (!isFileLevel(ref.fromNodeId)) continue;
+      const member = memberAt(ref.line);
+      if (member) ref.fromNodeId = member.id;
+    }
+    for (const edge of result.edges) {
+      if (edge.kind === 'contains' || !edge.line || !isFileLevel(edge.source)) continue;
+      const member = memberAt(edge.line);
+      if (member) edge.source = member.id;
+    }
+    result.nodes.push(...created);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Extract <script> and <script setup> blocks from the Vue source
    */
@@ -187,6 +249,11 @@ export class VueExtractor {
     const extractor = new TreeSitterExtractor(this.filePath, block.content, scriptLanguage);
     const result = extractor.extract();
 
+    // An Options API component's functions — `methods`, `computed`, `watch`,
+    // lifecycle hooks — are object-literal members the TS extractor leaves as
+    // part of the file. Name each one, and hand it the calls written inside it.
+    if (!block.isSetup) this.addOptionsMembers(block, result, componentNodeId);
+
     // Offset line numbers from script block back to .vue file positions
     for (const node of result.nodes) {
       node.startLine += block.startLine;
diff --git a/src/extraction/vue-options-api.ts b/src/extraction/vue-options-api.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8d7ec6326
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/extraction/vue-options-api.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+/**
+ * The members of a Vue Options API component — `export default { methods:
+ * { login() {…} }, computed: {…}, watch: {…}, mounted() {…} }`.
+ *
+ * A `<script>` block goes through the TypeScript/JavaScript extractor, which
+ * extracts no symbol for a method written in an object literal. Every Vue 2
+ * app, and every Vue 3 app not on `<script setup>`, keeps its code there:
+ * vue-element-admin's login screen had no `handleLogin`, so its calls, its
+ * `this.$router.push`, and the `@click="handleLogin"` that runs it all
+ * belonged to the file.
+ *
+ * This reads the options object the default export is — directly, or through
+ * `defineComponent({…})` / `Vue.extend({…})` / `Vue.component('x', {…})` —
+ * and names each function in it: `methods`, `computed` and `watch` entries,
+ * and the component's own functions (`data`, `setup`, the lifecycle hooks,
+ * Nuxt 2's `asyncData` / `fetch`, `render`).
+ */
+
+/** One function-valued member of the options object, as offsets into the script. */
+export interface OptionsMember {
+  name: string;
+  /** Where the member's key starts. */
+  start: number;
+  /** One past where its value ends. */
+  end: number;
+}
+
+/** The options a component declares as functions of its own. */
+const COMPONENT_FUNCTIONS = new Set([
+  'data', 'setup', 'render',
+  'beforeCreate', 'created', 'beforeMount', 'mounted', 'beforeUpdate', 'updated',
+  'activated', 'deactivated', 'beforeDestroy', 'destroyed', 'beforeUnmount', 'unmounted',
+  'errorCaptured', 'renderTracked', 'renderTriggered', 'serverPrefetch',
+  // Nuxt 2
+  'asyncData', 'fetch', 'head', 'validate', 'middleware',
+]);
+
+/** The groups whose every entry is a function (or, for computed/watch, an object of them). */
+const MEMBER_GROUPS = new Set(['methods', 'computed', 'watch']);
+
+/** The index after a string, template or regex-free literal starting at `at`; -1 if unterminated. */
+function skipQuoted(s: string, at: number): number {
+  const quote = s[at]!;
+  for (let i = at + 1; i < s.length; i++) {
+    const ch = s[i]!;
+    if (ch === '\\') {
+      i++;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (quote === '`' && ch === '$' && s[i + 1] === '{') {
+      const close = matchClose(s, i + 1);
+      if (close < 0) return -1;
+      i = close;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (ch === quote) return i + 1;
+  }
+  return -1;
+}
+
+/** The index of the bracket closing the one at `open`; -1 if unbalanced. */
+function matchClose(s: string, open: number): number {
+  let depth = 0;
+  for (let i = open; i < s.length; i++) {
+    const ch = s[i]!;
+    if (ch === '"' || ch === "'" || ch === '`') {
+      const end = skipQuoted(s, i);
+      if (end < 0) return -1;
+      i = end - 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (ch === '/' && s[i + 1] === '/') {
+      const nl = s.indexOf('\n', i);
+      i = nl < 0 ? s.length : nl;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (ch === '/' && s[i + 1] === '*') {
+      const close = s.indexOf('*/', i + 2);
+      i = close < 0 ? s.length : close + 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (ch === '{' || ch === '[' || ch === '(') depth++;
+    else if (ch === '}' || ch === ']' || ch === ')') {
+      depth--;
+      if (depth === 0) return i;
+    }
+  }
+  return -1;
+}
+
+interface RawMember {
+  name: string;
+  start: number;
+  /** Where the value starts (after `:`), or the `(` of a method shorthand. */
+  valueAt: number;
+  end: number;
+  shorthand: boolean;
+}
+
+/** The members of the object literal whose `{` is at `open`. */
+function objectMembers(s: string, open: number): RawMember[] {
+  const close = matchClose(s, open);
+  if (close < 0) return [];
+  const out: RawMember[] = [];
+  let i = open + 1;
+  while (i < close) {
+    // Skip separators, whitespace and comments between members.
+    const ws = /^(?:\s|,|\/\/[^\n]*|\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\/)+/.exec(s.slice(i, close));
+    if (ws) {
+      i += ws[0].length;
+      continue;
+    }
+    const start = i;
+    // `async name(…)`, `*name(…)`, `get name()`, `'quoted-key'`, `name`, `...spread`
+    const head = /^(?:(?:async|get|set)\s+(?=[\w$'"[]))?\*?\s*(?:([A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)|(['"])((?:(?!\2).)*)\2|(\[)|(\.\.\.))/.exec(s.slice(i, close));
+    if (!head) {
+      i++;
+      continue;
+    }
+    const name = head[1] ?? head[3] ?? null;
+    let j = i + head[0].length;
+    if (head[5] !== undefined) {
+      // A computed key — `[KEY]() {}` — has no static name; step over it.
+      const keyClose = matchClose(s, j - 1);
+      if (keyClose < 0) return out;
+      j = keyClose + 1;
+    }
+    // Where this member ends: the next depth-0 comma, or the object's end.
+    let k = j;
+    while (k < close) {
+      const ch = s[k]!;
+      if (ch === '"' || ch === "'" || ch === '`') {
+        const end = skipQuoted(s, k);
+        if (end < 0) return out;
+        k = end;
+        continue;
+      }
+      if (ch === '/' && (s[k + 1] === '/' || s[k + 1] === '*')) {
+        const end = s[k + 1] === '/' ? s.indexOf('\n', k) : s.indexOf('*/', k + 2) + 1;
+        k = end <= 0 ? close : end + 1;
+        continue;
+      }
+      if (ch === '{' || ch === '[' || ch === '(') {
+        const end = matchClose(s, k);
+        if (end < 0) return out;
+        k = end + 1;
+        continue;
+      }
+      if (ch === ',') break;
+      k++;
+    }
+    const rest = s.slice(j, k);
+    const colon = /^\s*:/.exec(rest);
+    if (name !== null && head[6] === undefined) {
+      out.push({
+        name,
+        start,
+        valueAt: colon ? j + colon[0].length : j,
+        end: k,
+        shorthand: !colon && /^\s*\(/.test(rest),
+      });
+    }
+    i = k + 1;
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** Whether a member's value is a function: a shorthand method, `function (…) {…}`, or an arrow. */
+function isFunctionValue(s: string, m: RawMember): boolean {
+  if (m.shorthand) return true;
+  const value = s.slice(m.valueAt, m.end).trimStart();
+  return /^(?:async\s+)?function\b/.test(value) || /^(?:async\s*)?(?:\([^)]*\)|[A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)\s*=>/.test(value);
+}
+
+/** The `{` of the options object the default export is, or -1. */
+function optionsObjectStart(script: string): number {
+  const m = /\bexport\s+default\s+(?:(?:defineComponent|defineNuxtComponent|Vue\s*\.\s*extend)\s*\(\s*|Vue\s*\.\s*component\s*\(\s*(['"])[^'"]*\1\s*,\s*)?\{/.exec(script);
+  return m ? m.index + m[0].length - 1 : -1;
+}
+
+/** Every function a Vue Options API component declares, in source order. */
+export function vueOptionsMembers(script: string): OptionsMember[] {
+  const open = optionsObjectStart(script);
+  if (open < 0) return [];
+  const out: OptionsMember[] = [];
+  for (const member of objectMembers(script, open)) {
+    if (COMPONENT_FUNCTIONS.has(member.name) && isFunctionValue(script, member)) {
+      out.push({ name: member.name, start: member.start, end: member.end });
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (!MEMBER_GROUPS.has(member.name) || member.shorthand) continue;
+    const valueOpen = script.indexOf('{', member.valueAt);
+    if (valueOpen < 0 || valueOpen >= member.end || script.slice(member.valueAt, valueOpen).trim() !== '') continue;
+    for (const entry of objectMembers(script, valueOpen)) {
+      // `computed: { x: { get() {}, set() {} } }` and `watch: { y: { handler() {} } }`
+      // are functions too; a watcher written as a method NAME (`z: 'onZ'`) is not.
+      const value = script.slice(entry.valueAt, entry.end).trimStart();
+      if (isFunctionValue(script, entry) || (member.name !== 'methods' && value.startsWith('{'))) {
+        out.push({ name: entry.name, start: entry.start, end: entry.end });
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
diff --git a/src/resolution/name-matcher.ts b/src/resolution/name-matcher.ts
index aa1db3deb..69cda553a 100644
--- a/src/resolution/name-matcher.ts
+++ b/src/resolution/name-matcher.ts
@@ -1566,6 +1566,9 @@ export function matchByExactName(
     !((bareJs || bareGo) && TYPE_MEMBER_KINDS.has(n.kind)) &&
     // A bare PHP call is a function call: nothing else is callable without a receiver.
     !(barePhp && n.kind !== 'function') &&
+    // A Vue component's own method is `this.m()` inside that component — not
+    // `this.$refs['input'].click()` on an element another component renders.
+    !(ref.referenceKind === 'calls' && JS_FAMILY.has(ref.language) && isVueComponentMethod(n) && !isThisCallInOwnFile(n, ref, context)) &&
     // An `extends`/`implements` ref names a supertype, so anything that can't
     // BE one is not a candidate at all. This is eligibility, not
     // ranking: kind is only a scoring bonus below (and none is awarded for
@@ -3620,6 +3623,15 @@ export function matchMethodCall(
       narrowed = kept.length !== targetMethods.length;
       targetMethods = kept;
     }
+    // A Vue component's own method is reached as `this.m()` inside it —
+    // never as `e.preventDefault()` on an event, nor `this.editor.setValue()`
+    // on something the component holds. A template ref
+    // (`this.$refs.form.validate()`) names a child this cannot tell apart.
+    if (JS_FAMILY.has(ref.language)) {
+      const kept = targetMethods.filter((m) => !isVueComponentMethod(m) || (objectOrClass === 'this' && m.filePath === ref.filePath));
+      narrowed ||= kept.length !== targetMethods.length;
+      targetMethods = kept;
+    }
 
     // If only one same-language method with this name exists, use it
     if (targetMethods.length === 1 && !narrowed && targetMethods[0]!.language === ref.language) {
@@ -3681,6 +3693,18 @@ function isImportedModuleReceiver(receiver: string, ref: UnresolvedRef, context:
   return binding.isNamespace || context.isOutOfRepoImport?.(binding.source, ref.filePath, ref.language) === true;
 }
 
+/** A method a Vue Options API component declares for itself (`index::handleLogin` in `index.vue`). */
+function isVueComponentMethod(n: Node): boolean {
+  return n.kind === 'method' && n.filePath.endsWith('.vue') && n.qualifiedName === `${path.posix.basename(n.filePath, '.vue')}::${n.name}`;
+}
+
+/** Is `ref` written as `this.<name>(` in the file that declares `n`? */
+function isThisCallInOwnFile(n: Node, ref: UnresolvedRef, context: ResolutionContext): boolean {
+  if (n.filePath !== ref.filePath) return false;
+  const line = (context.getFileLines?.(ref.filePath) ?? context.readFile(ref.filePath)?.split(/\r?\n/))?.[ref.line - 1] ?? '';
+  return new RegExp(String.raw`\bthis\s*\??\.\s*${n.name.replace(/\$/g, '\\$')}\s*\(`).test(line);
+}
+
 /** Is the root of a member call's receiver (`CameraManager` in `CameraManager.x`) one of the file's imports? */
 function isImportBinding(receiver: string, ref: UnresolvedRef, context: ResolutionContext): boolean {
   const root = receiver.split('.')[0]!;