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Provides a composer plugin for normalizing composer.json.

Motivation

If you have been working with composer on more than one project, you might have noticed that each composer.json ends up being structured differently.

I certainly have noticed, and rather than

ignoring it
manually structuring composer.json
asking others to structure composer.json

I decided to build something that structures composer.json in an automated fashion, but without changing the initial intent.

In my opinion, the advantages of using localheinz/composer-normalize are

no need to think (or argue) about where to add a new section
no need to think (or argue) about proper formatting
no need to worry about keeping items in a consistent order where they can't be kept in order by other means
can be used in a Continuous Integration environment

💡 If you are interested in finding out more before giving it a try, I have written a blog post about Normalizing composer.json.

Installation

Run

$ composer global require localheinz/composer-normalize

Usage

Run

$ composer normalize

to normalize composer.json in the working directory.

The NormalizeCommand provided by the NormalizePlugin within this package will

determine whether a composer.json exists
determine whether a composer.lock exists, and if so, whether it is up to date
use the ComposerJsonNormalizer to normalize the content of composer.json
format the normalized content (either as sniffed, or as specified using the --indent-size and --indent-style options)
write the normalized and formatted content of composer.json back to the file
update the hash in composer.lock if it exists and if an update is necessary

Arguments

file: Path to composer.json file (optional, defaults to composer.json in working directory)

Options

--dry-run: Show the results of normalizing, but do not modify any files
--indent-size: Indent size (an integer greater than 0); should be used with the --indent-style option
--indent-style: Indent style (one of "space", "tab"); should be used with the --indent-size option
--no-update-lock: Do not update lock file if it exists

Normalizers

The ComposerJsonNormalizer composes normalizers provided by localheinz/json-normalizer:

as well as the following normalizers provided by this package:

Localheinz\Composer\Normalize\Normalizer\BinNormalizer
Localheinz\Composer\Normalize\Normalizer\ConfigHashNormalizer
Localheinz\Composer\Normalize\Normalizer\PackageHashNormalizer
Localheinz\Composer\Normalize\Normalizer\VersionConstraintNormalizer

`BinNormalizer`

If composer.json contains an array of scripts in the bin section, the BinNormalizer will sort the elements of the bin section by value in ascending order.

💡 Find out more about the bin section at https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#bin.

`ConfigHashNormalizer`

If composer.json contains any configuration in the

config
extra

sections, the ConfigHashNormalizer will sort the content of these sections by key in ascending order.

💡 Find out more about the config section at https://getcomposer.org/doc/06-config.md.

`PackageHashNormalizer`

If composer.json contains any configuration in the

conflict
provide
replace
require
require-dev
suggest

sections, the PackageHashNormalizer will sort the content of these sections.

💡 This transfers the behaviour from using the --sort-packages or sort-packages configuration flag to other sections. Find out more about the --sort-packages flag and configuration at https://getcomposer.org/doc/06-config.md#sort-packages and https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#require.

`VersionConstraintNormalizer`

If composer.json contains version constraints in the

conflict
provide
replace
require
require-dev

sections, the VersionConstraintNormalizer will ensure that

all constraints are trimmed
and constraints are separated by a single space () or a comma (,)
or constraints are separated by double-pipe with a single space before and after (||)
range constraints are separated by a single space ()

💡 Find out more about version constraints at https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/versions.md.

Contributing

Please have a look at CONTRIBUTING.md.

Code of Conduct

Please have a look at CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

License

This package is licensed using the MIT License.

Credits

The algorithm for sorting packages in the PackageHashNormalizer has been adopted from Composer\Json\JsonManipulator::sortPackages() (originally licensed under MIT by Nils Adermann and Jordi Boggiano), which I initially contributed to composer/composer with composer/composer#3549 and composer/composer#3872.

Services

localheinz/composer-normalize is currently in use by FlintCI, see https://flintci.io/docs#composernormalize.