Install and Create output

Warning

This is an experimental feature subject to breaking changes in future releases.

The conan install and conan create provide a --json parameter to generate a file containing the information of the installation process.

The output JSON contains a two first level keys:

• error: True if the install completed without error, False otherwise.

• installed: A list of installed packages. Each element contains:

  • recipe: Document representing the downloaded recipe.

    • remote: remote URL if the recipe has been downloaded. null otherwise.

    • cache: true/false. Retrieved from cache (not downloaded).

    • downloaded: true/false. Downloaded from a remote (not in cache).

    • time: ISO 8601 string with the time the recipe was downloaded/retrieved.

    • error: true/false.

    • id: Reference. E.g., “OpenSSL/1.0.2n@conan/stable”

    • name: name of the packaged library. E.g., “OpenSSL”

    • version: version of the packaged library. E.g., “1.0.2n”

    • user: user of the packaged library. E.g., “conan”

    • channel: channel of the packaged library. E.g., “stable”

    • dependency: true/false. Is the package being installed/created or a dependency. Same as develop conanfile attribute.

  • packages: List of elements, representing the binary packages downloaded for the recipe. Normally there will be only 1 element in this list, only in special cases with build requires, private dependencies and settings overridden this list could have more than one element.

    • remote: remote URL if the recipe has been downloaded. null otherwise.

    • cache: true/false. Retrieved from cache (not downloaded).

    • downloaded: true/false. Downloaded from a remote (not in cache).

    • time: ISO 8601 string with the time the recipe was downloaded/retrieved.

    • error: true/false.

    • id: Package ID. E.g., “8018a4df6e7d2b4630a814fa40c81b85b9182d2b”

    • cpp_info: dictionary containing the build information defined in the package_info method on the recipe.

Example:

$ conan install OpenSSL/1.0.2l@conan/stable --json install.json

install.json

 {
     "error":false,
     "installed":[
         {
             "recipe":{
                 "id":"OpenSSL/1.0.2l@conan/stable",
                 "downloaded":true,
                 "exported":false,
                 "error":null,
                 "remote":"https://api.bintray.com/conan/conan/conan-center",
                 "time":"2018-11-29T11:59:53.601813",
                 "dependency":true,
                 "name":"OpenSSL",
                 "version":"1.0.2l",
                 "user":"conan",
                 "channel":"stable"
             },
             "packages":[
                 {
                     "id":"606fdb601e335c2001bdf31d478826b644747077",
                     "downloaded":true,
                     "exported":false,
                     "error":null,
                     "remote":"https://api.bintray.com/conan/conan/conan-center",
                     "time":"2018-11-29T12:00:03.874284",
                     "built":false,
                     "cpp_info":{
                         "includedirs":[
                             "include"
                         ],
                         "libdirs":[
                             "lib"
                         ],
                         "resdirs":[
                             "res"
                         ],
                         "bindirs":[
                             "bin"
                         ],
                         "builddirs":[
                             ""
                         ],
                         "libs":[
                             "ssleay32",
                             "libeay32",
                             "crypt32",
                             "msi",
                             "ws2_32"
                         ],
                         "rootpath":"C:/Users/user/.conan/data/OpenSSL/1.0.2l/conan/stable/package/606fdb601e335c2001bdf31d478826b644747077",
                         "version":"1.0.2l",
                         "description":"OpenSSL is an open source project that provides a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols",
                         "public_deps":[
                             "zlib"
                         ]
                     }
                 }
             ]
         },
         {"...":"..."
         }
     ]
 }

Note

As this is a marked as experimental, some fields may be removed or added: fields version and description inside cpp_info will eventually be removed and paths may be changed for absolute ones.