Use case: get the total dependent count for a given crate.
Current approach: crate_reverse_dependencies loops through all pages in reverse_dependencies to fetch all the dependents and then we can extract the total count from meta field.
Suggested approach: A separate function total_dependent_count where we can fetch the meta field just from the page 1 from crates.io API and return the result to the user. Will be faster is user only wants the total count.
Use case: get the total dependent count for a given crate.
Current approach:
crate_reverse_dependenciesloops through all pages in reverse_dependencies to fetch all the dependents and then we can extract the total count frommetafield.Suggested approach: A separate function
total_dependent_countwhere we can fetch themetafield just from the page 1 from crates.io API and return the result to the user. Will be faster is user only wants the total count.