Building Enola, Part 3: Linking Architecture Across Repositories
The earlier article, Cross-repository code analysis for multi-repo architectures , explains why repository boundaries hide system dependencies. This part describes how Enola reconstructs those dependencies. The process starts after extraction. Language-specific extractors have already converted source code and contracts into a shared fact model. The cross-repository linker reads those facts,…
Enola's architecture linking process begins with the extraction of source code and contracts into a shared fact model. Extractors interpret languages and frameworks, while binders resolve facts that require a wider extraction scope. The cross-repository linker then reads these facts, collects evidence from protocol-specific signals, and materializes only the relationships that evidence supports.
The linker separates concerns by using extractors to interpret languages and frameworks, binders to resolve facts requiring broader extraction, and cross-repository signals to identify evidence between repositories. Signals contribute evidence through a common interface, establishing consumer and provider directions, identifying coupling without inventing a direction, and recording shared code as coupling.
HTTP route matching is a key part of this process, where Enola normalizes server routes and evaluates client routes against that index, normalizing parameter syntax and leading slashes, and comparing trailing path segments to ensure accurate matching.
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