Info output

Warning

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

The conan info provides a --json parameter to generate a file containing the output of the command.

There are several possible outputs depending on other arguments:

Build order

Warning

The command conan info --build-order is deprecated in favor of conan lock build-order.

The build order printed with the argument --build-order can be formatted as JSON. It will show a list of lists where the references inside each nested one can be built in parallel.

build_order.json

 {
     "groups":[
         [
             "liba/0.1@lasote/stable",
             "libe/0.1@lasote/stable",
             "libf/0.1@lasote/stable"
         ],
         [
             "libb/0.1@lasote/stable",
             "libc/0.1@lasote/stable"
         ]
     ]
 }

Nodes to build

When called with the argument --build it will retrieve the list of nodes to be built according to the build policy. Output will be just a list of references.

nodes_to_build.json

 [
     "h0/0.1@lu/st",
     "h1a/0.1@lu/st",
     "h1c/0.1@lu/st",
     "h2a/0.1@lu/st",
     "h2c/0.1@lu/st"
 ]

Info output

The output of a conan info call over a reference or a path gives information about all the nodes involved in its build graph; the generated JSON file will contain a list with the information for each of the nodes.

info.json

 [
     {
         "reference":"liba/0.1@lasote/stable",
         "is_ref":true,
         "display_name":"liba/0.1@lasote/stable",
         "id":"8da7d879f40d12efabc9a1f26ab12f1b6cafb6ad",
         "build_id":null,
         "context": "host",
         "url":"myurl",
         "license":[
             "MIT"
         ],
         "description": "project A",
         "recipe":"No remote",
         "binary":"Missing",
         "creation_date":"2019-01-29 17:22:41",
         "required_by":[
             "libc/0.1@lasote/stable",
             "libb/0.1@lasote/stable"
         ]
     },
     {
         "reference":"libb/0.1@lasote/stable",
         "is_ref":true,
         "display_name":"libb/0.1@lasote/stable",
         "id":"c4ec2bf350e2a02405029ab366535e26372a4f63",
         "build_id":null,
         "context": "host",
         "url":"myurl",
         "license":[
             "MIT"
         ],
         "description": "project C",
         "recipe":"No remote",
         "binary":"Missing",
         "creation_date":"2019-01-29 17:22:41",
         "required_by":[
             "conanfile.py (libd/0.1@None/None)"
         ],
         "requires":[
             "liba/0.1@lasote/stable",
             "libe/0.1@lasote/stable"
         ]
     },
     { "...": "..."}
 ]

Note

As this is a marked as experimental, some fields may be removed or added.