composer/res/composer-schema.json

{
    "name": "Package",
    "type": "object",
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "properties": {
        "name": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Package name, including 'vendor-name/' prefix.",
            "required": true
        },
        "type": {
            "description": "Package type, either 'library' for common packages, 'composer-plugin' for plugins, 'metapackage' for empty packages, or a custom type ([a-z0-9-]+) defined by whatever project this package applies to.",
            "type": "string"
        },
        "target-dir": {
            "description": "Forces the package to be installed into the given subdirectory path. This is used for autoloading PSR-0 packages that do not contain their full path. Use forward slashes for cross-platform compatibility.",
            "type": "string"
        },
        "description": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Short package description.",
            "required": true
        },
        "keywords": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "A tag/keyword that this package relates to."
            }
        },
        "homepage": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Homepage URL for the project.",
            "format": "uri"
        },
        "version": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Package version, see http://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#version for more info on valid schemes."
        },
        "time": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Package release date, in 'YYYY-MM-DD' or 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' format."
        },
        "license": {
            "type": ["string", "array"],
            "description": "License name. Or an array of license names."
        },
        "authors": {
            "type": "array",
            "description": "List of authors that contributed to the package. This is typically the main maintainers, not the full list.",
            "items": {
                "type": "object",
                "additionalProperties": false,
                "properties": {
                    "name": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Full name of the author.",
                        "required": true
                    },
                    "email": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Email address of the author.",
                        "format": "email"
                    },
                    "homepage": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Homepage URL for the author.",
                        "format": "uri"
                    },
                    "role": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Author's role in the project."
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "require": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "This is a hash of package name (keys) and version constraints (values) that are required to run this package.",
            "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "replace": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "This is a hash of package name (keys) and version constraints (values) that can be replaced by this package.",
            "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "conflict": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "This is a hash of package name (keys) and version constraints (values) that conflict with this package.",
            "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "provide": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "This is a hash of package name (keys) and version constraints (values) that this package provides in addition to this package's name.",
            "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "require-dev": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "This is a hash of package name (keys) and version constraints (values) that this package requires for developing it (testing tools and such).",
            "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "suggest": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "This is a hash of package name (keys) and descriptions (values) that this package suggests work well with it (this will be suggested to the user during installation).",
            "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "config": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "Composer options.",
            "properties": {
                "process-timeout": {
                    "type": "integer",
                    "description": "The timeout in seconds for process executions, defaults to 300 (5mins)."
                },
                "use-include-path": {
                    "type": "boolean",
                    "description": "If true, the Composer autoloader will also look for classes in the PHP include path."
                },
                "preferred-install": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "The install method Composer will prefer to use, defaults to auto and can be any of source, dist or auto."
                },
                "notify-on-install": {
                    "type": "boolean",
                    "description": "Composer allows repositories to define a notification URL, so that they get notified whenever a package from that repository is installed. This option allows you to disable that behaviour, defaults to true."
                },
                "github-protocols": {
                    "type": "array",
                    "description": "A list of protocols to use for github.com clones, in priority order, defaults to [\"git\", \"https\", \"http\"].",
                    "items": {
                        "type": "string"
                    }
                },
                "github-oauth": {
                    "type": "object",
                    "description": "A hash of domain name => github API oauth tokens, typically {\"github.com\":\"<token>\"}.",
                    "additionalProperties": true
                },
                "vendor-dir": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "The location where all packages are installed, defaults to \"vendor\"."
                },
                "bin-dir": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "The location where all binaries are linked, defaults to \"vendor/bin\"."
                },
                "cache-dir": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "The location where all caches are located, defaults to \"~/.composer/cache\" on *nix and \"%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Composer\" on windows."
                },
                "cache-files-dir": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "The location where files (zip downloads) are cached, defaults to \"{$cache-dir}/files\"."
                },
                "cache-repo-dir": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "The location where repo (git/hg repo clones) are cached, defaults to \"{$cache-dir}/repo\"."
                },
                "cache-vcs-dir": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "The location where vcs infos (git clones, github api calls, etc. when reading vcs repos) are cached, defaults to \"{$cache-dir}/vcs\"."
                },
                "cache-ttl": {
                    "type": "integer",
                    "description": "The default cache time-to-live, defaults to 15552000 (6 months)."
                },
                "cache-files-ttl": {
                    "type": "integer",
                    "description": "The cache time-to-live for files, defaults to the value of cache-ttl."
                },
                "cache-files-maxsize": {
                    "type": ["string", "integer"],
                    "description": "The cache max size for the files cache, defaults to \"300MiB\"."
                },
                "discard-changes": {
                    "type": ["string", "boolean"],
                    "description": "The default style of handling dirty updates, defaults to false and can be any of true, false or \"stash\"."
                }
            }
        },
        "extra": {
            "type": ["object", "array"],
            "description": "Arbitrary extra data that can be used by plugins, for example, package of type composer-plugin may have a 'class' key defining an installer class name.",
            "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "autoload": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "Description of how the package can be autoloaded.",
            "properties": {
                "psr-0": {
                    "type": "object",
                    "description": "This is a hash of namespaces (keys) and the directories they can be found into (values, can be arrays of paths) by the autoloader.",
                    "additionalProperties": true
                },
                "classmap": {
                    "type": "array",
                    "description": "This is an array of directories that contain classes to be included in the class-map generation process."
                },
                "files": {
                    "type": "array",
                    "description": "This is an array of files that are always required on every request."
                }
            }
        },
        "archive": {
            "type": ["object"],
            "description": "Options for creating package archives for distribution.",
            "properties": {
                "exclude": {
                    "type": "array",
                    "description": "A list of patterns for paths to exclude or include if prefixed with an exclamation mark."
                }
            }
        },
        "repositories": {
            "type": ["object", "array"],
            "description": "A set of additional repositories where packages can be found.",
            "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "minimum-stability": {
            "type": ["string"],
            "description": "The minimum stability the packages must have to be install-able. Possible values are: dev, alpha, beta, RC, stable."
        },
        "prefer-stable": {
            "type": ["boolean"],
            "description": "If set to true, stable packages will be prefered to dev packages when possible, even if the minimum-stability allows unstable packages."
        },
        "bin": {
            "type": ["array"],
            "description": "A set of files that should be treated as binaries and symlinked into bin-dir (from config).",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            }
        },
        "include-path": {
            "type": ["array"],
            "description": "DEPRECATED: A list of directories which should get added to PHP's include path. This is only present to support legacy projects, and all new code should preferably use autoloading.",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            }
        },
        "scripts": {
            "type": ["object"],
            "description": "Scripts listeners that will be executed before/after some events.",
            "properties": {
                "pre-install-cmd": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs before the install command is executed, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "post-install-cmd": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs after the install command is executed, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "pre-update-cmd": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs before the update command is executed, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "post-update-cmd": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs after the update command is executed, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "pre-status-cmd": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs before the status command is executed, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "post-status-cmd": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs after the status command is executed, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "pre-package-install": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs before a package is installed, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "post-package-install": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs after a package is installed, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "pre-package-update": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs before a package is updated, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "post-package-update": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs after a package is updated, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "pre-package-uninstall": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs before a package has been uninstalled, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "post-package-uninstall": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs after a package has been uninstalled, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "pre-autoload-dump": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs before the autoloader is dumped, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "post-autoload-dump": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs after the autoloader is dumped, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "post-root-package-install": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs after the root-package is installed, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                },
                "post-create-project-cmd": {
                    "type": ["array", "string"],
                    "description": "Occurs after the create-project command is executed, contains one or more Class::method callables or shell commands."
                }
            }
        },
        "support": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
                "email": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Email address for support.",
                    "format": "email"
                },
                "issues": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "URL to the Issue Tracker.",
                    "format": "uri"
                },
                "forum": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "URL to the Forum.",
                    "format": "uri"
                },
                "wiki": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "URL to the Wiki.",
                    "format": "uri"
                },
                "irc": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "IRC channel for support, as irc://server/channel.",
                    "format": "uri"
                },
                "source": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "URL to browse or download the sources.",
                    "format": "uri"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}