Composer Java Bindings

A Java API for the PHP dependency manager Composer and it's main repository packagist.org.

See the tests for usage details.

An example implementation can be found in the Eclipse Composer Plugin

API Notes

Naming Conventions

Resource

A file containing a package or a repository.

Repository

Contains multiple packages.

Repositories

• PackageRepository
  Schema: n/a
  Example: https://packagist.org/packages/gossi/ldap.json

• ComposerRepository
  Schema: n/a
  Example: https://packagist.org/p/packages-2011.json

• VcsRepository, GitRepository, SubversionRepository, MercurialRepository
  Schema: http://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#vcs
  Example: http://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#vcs

• PearRepository
  Schema: http://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#pear
  Example: http://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#pear

Package

Contains a single package may have different versions.

Packages

• ComposerPackage
  Schema: http://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md

• RepositoryPackage
  Schema: n/a
  Example: package in https://packagist.org/packages/gossi/ldap.json

Entity

Every objects or key value pairs as long as they can be grouped in a collection (see below).

Examples

"require": {
	"php": ">=5.3.0",
	"monolog/monolog": "1.0"
}

Each require entry is an entity (key-value pair).

"auhtors": [
	{
		"name": "gossi"
	}, 
	{
		"name": "Robert Gründler"
	}
]

Each entry in the authors is an entity.

Collections

Entities of the same type under the same parent.

Properties

Single key value pairs, that aren't entities.

Examples

{
	"name": "gossi/ldap"
}

The name property