nix/doc/manual/source/protocols/json/schema/store-object-info-v2.yaml

"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema"
"$id": "https://nix.dev/manual/nix/latest/protocols/json/schema/store-object-info-v2.json"
title: Store Object Info v2
description: |
  Information about a [store object](@docroot@/store/store-object.md).

  This schema describes the JSON representation of store object metadata as returned by commands like [`nix path-info --json`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-path-info.md).

  > **Warning**
  >
  > This JSON format is currently
  > [**experimental**](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-nix-command)
  > and subject to change.

  ### Field Categories

  Store object information can come in a few different variations.

  Firstly, "impure" fields, which contain non-intrinsic information about the store object, may or may not be included.

  Second, binary cache stores have extra non-intrinsic infomation about the store objects they contain.

  Thirdly, [`nix path-info --json --closure-size`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-path-info.html#opt-closure-size) can compute some extra information about not just the single store object in question, but the store object and its [closure](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-closure).

  The impure and NAR fields are grouped into separate variants below.
  See their descriptions for additional information.
  The closure fields however as just included as optional fields, to avoid a combinatorial explosion of variants.

oneOf:
  - $ref: "#/$defs/base"

  - $ref: "#/$defs/impure"

  - $ref: "#/$defs/narInfo"

$defs:
  base:
    title: Store Object Info
    description: |
      Basic store object metadata containing only intrinsic properties.
      This is the minimal set of fields that describe what a store object contains.
    type: object
    required:
      - version
      - narHash
      - narSize
      - references
      - ca
    properties:
      version:
        type: integer
        const: 2
        title: Format version (must be 2)
        description: |
          Must be `2`.
          This is a guard that allows us to continue evolving this format.
          Here is the rough version history:

          - Version 0: `.narinfo` line-oriented format

          - Version 1: Original JSON format, with ugly `"r:sha256"` inherited from `.narinfo` format.

          - Version 2: Use structured JSON type for `ca`

      path:
        type: string
        title: Store Path
        description: |
          [Store path](@docroot@/store/store-path.md) to the given store object.

          Note: This field may not be present in all contexts, such as when the path is used as the key and the the store object info the value in map.

      narHash:
        "$ref": "./hash-v1.yaml"
        title: NAR Hash
        description: |
          Hash of the [file system object](@docroot@/store/file-system-object.md) part of the store object when serialized as a [Nix Archive](@docroot@/store/file-system-object/content-address.md#serial-nix-archive).

      narSize:
        type: integer
        minimum: 0
        title: NAR Size
        description: |
          Size of the [file system object](@docroot@/store/file-system-object.md) part of the store object when serialized as a [Nix Archive](@docroot@/store/file-system-object/content-address.md#serial-nix-archive).

      references:
        type: array
        title: References
        description: |
          An array of [store paths](@docroot@/store/store-path.md), possibly including this one.
        items:
          type: string

      ca:
        oneOf:
          - type: "null"
            const: null
          - "$ref": "./content-address-v1.yaml"
        title: Content Address
        description: |
          If the store object is [content-addressed](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md),
          this is the content address of this store object's file system object, used to compute its store path.
          Otherwise (i.e. if it is [input-addressed](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-input-addressed-store-object)), this is `null`.
    additionalProperties: false

  impure:
    title: Store Object Info with Impure Fields
    description: |
      Store object metadata including impure fields that are not *intrinsic* properties.
      In other words, the same store object in different stores could have different values for these impure fields.
    type: object
    required:
      - version
      - narHash
      - narSize
      - references
      - ca
      # impure
      - deriver
      - registrationTime
      - ultimate
      - signatures
    properties:
      version: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/version" }
      path: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/path" }
      narHash: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/narHash" }
      narSize: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/narSize" }
      references: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/references" }
      ca: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/ca" }
      deriver:
        type: ["string", "null"]
        title: Deriver
        description: |
          If known, the path to the [store derivation](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-derivation) from which this store object was produced.
          Otherwise `null`.

          > This is an "impure" field that may not be included in certain contexts.

      registrationTime:
        type: ["integer", "null"]
        title: Registration Time
        description: |
          If known, when this derivation was added to the store (Unix timestamp).
          Otherwise `null`.

          > This is an "impure" field that may not be included in certain contexts.

      ultimate:
        type: boolean
        title: Ultimate
        description: |
          Whether this store object is trusted because we built it ourselves, rather than substituted a build product from elsewhere.

          > This is an "impure" field that may not be included in certain contexts.

      signatures:
        type: array
        title: Signatures
        description: |
          Signatures claiming that this store object is what it claims to be.
          Not relevant for [content-addressed](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md) store objects,
          but useful for [input-addressed](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-input-addressed-store-object) store objects.

          > This is an "impure" field that may not be included in certain contexts.
        items:
          type: string

      # Computed closure fields
      closureSize:
        type: integer
        minimum: 0
        title: Closure Size
        description: |
          The total size of this store object and every other object in its [closure](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-closure).

          > This field is not stored at all, but computed by traversing the other fields across all the store objects in a closure.
    additionalProperties: false

  narInfo:
    title: Store Object Info with Impure fields and NAR Info
    description: |
      The store object info in the "binary cache" family of Nix store type contain extra information pertaining to *downloads* of the store object in question.
      (This store info is called "NAR info", since the downloads take the form of [Nix Archives](@docroot@/store/file-system-object/content-address.md#serial-nix-archive, and the metadata is served in a file with a `.narinfo` extension.)

      This download information, being specific to how the store object happens to be stored and transferred, is also considered to be non-intrinsic / impure.
    type: object
    required:
      - version
      - narHash
      - narSize
      - references
      - ca
      # impure
      - deriver
      - registrationTime
      - ultimate
      - signatures
      # nar
      - url
      - compression
      - downloadHash
      - downloadSize
    properties:
      version: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/version" }
      path: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/path" }
      narHash: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/narHash" }
      narSize: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/narSize" }
      references: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/references" }
      ca: { $ref: "#/$defs/base/properties/ca" }
      deriver: { $ref: "#/$defs/impure/properties/deriver" }
      registrationTime: { $ref: "#/$defs/impure/properties/registrationTime" }
      ultimate: { $ref: "#/$defs/impure/properties/ultimate" }
      signatures: { $ref: "#/$defs/impure/properties/signatures" }
      closureSize: { $ref: "#/$defs/impure/properties/closureSize" }
      url:
        type: string
        title: URL
        description: |
          Where to download a compressed archive of the file system objects of this store object.

          > This is an impure "`.narinfo`" field that may not be included in certain contexts.

      compression:
        type: string
        title: Compression
        description: |
          The compression format that the archive is in.

          > This is an impure "`.narinfo`" field that may not be included in certain contexts.

      downloadHash:
        "$ref": "./hash-v1.yaml"
        title: Download Hash
        description: |
          A digest for the compressed archive itself, as opposed to the data contained within.

          > This is an impure "`.narinfo`" field that may not be included in certain contexts.

      downloadSize:
        type: integer
        minimum: 0
        title: Download Size
        description: |
          The size of the compressed archive itself.

          > This is an impure "`.narinfo`" field that may not be included in certain contexts.

      closureDownloadSize:
        type: integer
        minimum: 0
        title: Closure Download Size
        description: |
          The total size of the compressed archive itself for this object, and the compressed archive of every object in this object's [closure](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-closure).

          > This is an impure "`.narinfo`" field that may not be included in certain contexts.

          > This field is not stored at all, but computed by traversing the other fields across all the store objects in a closure.
    additionalProperties: false