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jc.parsers.apt_cache_show

jc - JSON Convert apt-cache show command parser

Usage (cli):

$ apt-cache show | jc --apt-cache-show

Usage (module):

import jc
result = jc.parse('apt_cache_show', apt_cache_show_output)

Schema:

[
  {
    "package":                string,
    "version":                string,
    "installed_size":         integer,
    "maintainer":             string,
    "architecture":           string,
    "depends": [
                              string
    ],
    "pre_depends": [
                              string
    ],
    "recommends": [
                              string
    ],
    "suggests": [
                              string
    ],
    "conflicts": [
                              string
    ],
    "breaks": [
                              string
    ],
    "description_md5":        string,
    "multi_arch":             string,
    "homepage":               string,
    "section":                string,
    "priority":               string,
    "filename":               string,
    "size":                   integer,
    "sha256":                 string,
    "description":            string
  }
]

Examples:

$ apt-cache show | jc --apt-cache-show -p
[
  {
    "package": "systemd",
    "version": "247.3-6~bpo10+1",
    "installed_size": 16121,
    "maintainer": "Debian systemd Maintainers <pkg-systemd-maintaine..",
    "architecture": "amd64",
    "depends": [
      "libacl1 (>= 2.2.23)",
      "libapparmor1 (>= 2.13)",
      "libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1)",
      "libcap2 (>= 1:2.10)",
      "libcryptsetup12 (>= 2:2.0.1)",
      "libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.6)",
      "libgpg-error0 (>= 1.14)",
      "libip4tc0 (>= 1.6.0+snapshot20161117)",
      "libkmod2 (>= 5~)",
      "liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r130)",
      "libmount1 (>= 2.30)",
      "libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1)",
      "libseccomp2 (>= 2.3.1)",
      "libsystemd0 (= 247.3-6~bpo10+1)",
      "systemd-timesyncd | time-daemon",
      "util-linux (>= 2.27.1)",
      "mount (>= 2.26)",
      "adduser"
    ],
    "pre_depends": [
      "libblkid1 (>= 2.24)",
      "libc6 (>= 2.28)",
      "libgcrypt20 (>= 1.8.0)",
      "liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r122)",
      "liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614)",
      "libselinux1 (>= 2.1.9)",
      "libzstd1 (>= 1.4.0)"
    ],
    "recommends": [
      "dbus"
    ],
    "suggests": [
      "systemd-container",
      "policykit-1"
    ],
    "conflicts": [
      "consolekit",
      "libpam-ck-connector"
    ],
    "breaks": [
      "python-dbusmock (<< 0.18)",
      "python3-dbusmock (<< 0.18)",
      "resolvconf (<< 1.83~)",
      "systemd-shim (<< 10-4~)",
      "udev (<< 247~)"
    ],
    "description_md5": "19399579cbc0c47a303288bf15eadcd4",
    "multi_arch": "foreign",
    "homepage": "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd",
    "section": "admin",
    "priority": "important",
    "filename": "pool/main/s/systemd/systemd_247.3-6~bpo10+1_amd64.deb",
    "size": 4382056,
    "sha256": "2035450655ad02faa0f75dc952128b503e51df5795c67273c0f6...",
    "description": "system and service manager  systemd is a system..."
  },
  ...
]

$ apt-cache show | jc --apt-cache-show -p -r
[
  {
    "package": "systemd",
    "version": "247.3-6~bpo10+1",
    "installed_size": "16121",
    "maintainer": "Debian systemd Maintainers <pkg-systemd-maintain...",
    "architecture": "amd64",
    "depends": "libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libapparmor1 (>= 2.13), libaud...",
    "pre_depends": "libblkid1 (>= 2.24), libc6 (>= 2.28), libgcrypt...",
    "recommends": "dbus",
    "suggests": "systemd-container, policykit-1",
    "conflicts": "consolekit, libpam-ck-connector",
    "breaks": "python-dbusmock (<< 0.18), python3-dbusmock (<< 0.18...",
    "description_md5": "19399579cbc0c47a303288bf15eadcd4",
    "multi_arch": "foreign",
    "homepage": "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd",
    "section": "admin",
    "priority": "important",
    "filename": "pool/main/s/systemd/systemd_247.3-6~bpo10+1_amd64.deb",
    "size": "4382056",
    "sha256": "2035450655ad02faa0f75dc952128b503e51df5795c67273c0f6...",
    "description": "system and service manager  systemd is a system..."
  },
  ...
]

parse

def parse(data: str,
          raw: bool = False,
          quiet: bool = False) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]

Main text parsing function

Parameters:

data:        (string)  text data to parse
raw:         (boolean) unprocessed output if True
quiet:       (boolean) suppress warning messages if True

Returns:

List of Dictionaries. Raw or processed structured data.

Parser Information

Compatibility: linux

Source: jc/parsers/apt_cache_show.py

Version 1.0 by Kelly Brazil (kellyjonbrazil@gmail.com)