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/1.0.2u”

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

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

    • 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/1.0.2u@ --json install.json

install.json

 {
     "error": false,
     "installed": [{
         "recipe": {
             "id": "openssl/1.0.2u",
             "downloaded": true,
             "exported": false,
             "error": null,
             "remote": "https://conan.bintray.com",
             "time": "2020-01-30T19:19:21.217923",
             "dependency": true,
             "name": "openssl",
             "version": "1.0.2u",
             "user": null,
             "channel": null
         },
         "packages": [{
             "id": "f99afdbf2a1cc98ba2029817b35103455b6a9b77",
             "downloaded": true,
             "exported": false,
             "error": null,
             "remote": "https://conan.bintray.com",
             "time": "2020-01-30T19:19:27.662199",
             "built": false,
             "cpp_info": {
                 "name": "openssl",
                 "names": {
                     "cmake_find_package": "OpenSSL",
                     "cmake_find_package_multi": "OpenSSL"
                 },
                 "includedirs": ["include"],
                 "libdirs": ["lib"],
                 "resdirs": ["res"],
                 "bindirs": ["bin"],
                 "builddirs": [""],
                 "frameworkdirs": ["Frameworks"],
                 "libs": ["ssl", "crypto", "dl", "pthread"],
                 "rootpath": "/home/user/.conan/data/openssl/1.0.2u/_/_/package/f99afdbf2a1cc98ba2029817b35103455b6a9b77",
                 "version": "1.0.2u",
                 "description": "A toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols",
                 "filter_empty": true,
                 "public_deps": ["zlib"]
             }
         }]
     }, {
         "recipe": {
             "id": "zlib/1.2.11#1cd4a227e1b846f961bf91fcb6f3980f",
             "downloaded": false,
             "exported": false,
             "error": null,
             "remote": null,
             "time": "2020-01-30T19:19:21.237131",
             "dependency": true,
             "name": "zlib",
             "version": "1.2.11",
             "user": null,
             "channel": null
         },
         "packages": [{
             "id": "6af9cc7cb931c5ad942174fd7838eb655717c709",
             "downloaded": false,
             "exported": false,
             "error": null,
             "remote": null,
             "time": "2020-01-30T19:19:22.061885",
             "built": false,
             "cpp_info": {
                 "name": "ZLIB",
                 "includedirs": ["include"],
                 "libdirs": ["lib"],
                 "resdirs": ["res"],
                 "bindirs": ["bin"],
                 "builddirs": [""],
                 "frameworkdirs": ["Frameworks"],
                 "libs": ["z"],
                 "rootpath": "/home/user/.conan/data/zlib/1.2.11/_/_/package/6af9cc7cb931c5ad942174fd7838eb655717c709",
                 "version": "1.2.11",
                 "description": "A Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library (Also Free, Not to Mention Unencumbered by Patents)",
                 "filter_empty": true
             }
         }]
     }]
 }

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.