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fiat
fiat

Reputation: 15981

Access project.json metadata via reflection?

Is it possible to access project.json metadata from a deployed application?

For example, in .NET 4.5 projects I would decorate my app like this

[assembly: AssemblyProduct("My App")]
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("Debug")]
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("4.5.1.*")]
[assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion("Developer Build")]

and then at application startup, use reflection to read these values and write them to the log. The use case being that it is then easy to verify exactly what build is running in the wild.

Is it possible to reflect the project.json metadata instead? eg:

"version": "1.0.0-*",
"description": "My app - acme widget factory",
"authors": [ "gbshaw" ],
"tags": [ "widget acme" ],

Upvotes: 1

Views: 93

Answers (1)

fiat
fiat

Reputation: 15981

As far as I can tell (at least in Beta 6), the only project.json attribute that can be reflected is version.

Using the same project.json as specified in the question and then building the app with DNX_BUILD_VERSION set to foobar by my build server say, then ILSpy shows these attributes only

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")]
[assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion("1.0.0-foobar")]

You can however still use the traditional assembly attributes. The AssemblyVersion and AssemblyInformationalVersion attributes will actually override project.json version.

Upvotes: 1

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