A Java API for the PHP dependency manager Composer and it's main repository packagist.org.

See the tests for usage details.

An example implementation can be found in the Eclipse Composer Plugin

A file containing a package or a repository.

Contains multiple packages.

• PackageRepository
  Schema: n/a
  Example: https://packagist.org/packages/gossi/ldap.json

• ComposerRepository
  Schema: n/a
  Example: https://packagist.org/p/packages-2011.json

• VcsRepository, GitRepository, SubversionRepository, MercurialRepository
  Schema: http://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#vcs
  Example: http://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#vcs

• PearRepository
  Schema: http://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#pear
  Example: http://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#pear

Contains a single package may have different versions.

• ComposerPackage
  Schema: http://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md

• RepositoryPackage
  Schema: n/a
  Example: package in https://packagist.org/packages/gossi/ldap.json

Every objects or key value pairs as long as they can be grouped in a collection (see below).

"require": {
	"php": ">=5.3.0",
	"monolog/monolog": "1.0"
}

Each require entry is an entity (key-value pair).

"auhtors": [
	{
		"name": "gossi"
	}, 
	{
		"name": "Robert Gründler"
	}
]

Each entry in the authors is an entity.

Entities of the same type under the same parent.

Single key value pairs, that aren't entities.

{
	"name": "gossi/ldap"
}

The name property