@snyk/dep-graph/README.md

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# Snyk dep-graph

This library provides a time and space efficient representation of a resolved package dependency graph, which can be used to construct, query and de/serialize dep-graphs.

## The Graph

A directed graph, where a node represents a package instance and an edge from node `foo` to node `bar` means `bar` is a dependency of `foo`.

A package (`name@version`) can have several different nodes (i.e. instances) in the graph. This flexibility is useful for some ecosystems, for example:

* in `npm` due to conflict-resolutions by duplication. e.g. try to `npm i tap@5.7` and then run `npm ls` and look for `strip-ansi@3.0.1`. You'll see that in some instances it depends on `ansi-regex@2.0.0` while in others on `ansi-regex@2.1.1`.
* in `maven` due to "exclusion" rules. A dependency `foo` can be declared in the `pom.xml` such that some of it's sub-dependencies are excluded via the `<exclusions>` tag. If the same dependency is required elsewhere without (or with different) exclusions then `foo` can appear in the tree with different sub-trees.

This can also be used to break cycles in the graph, e.g.:

instead of:
```
A -> B -> C -> A
```
can have:
```
A -> B -> C -> A'
```

## API Reference

### `DepGraph`

#### Interface

A dep-graph instance can be queried using the following interface:

```typescript
export interface DepGraph {
  readonly pkgManager: {
    name: string;
    version?: string;
    repositories?: Array<{
      alias: string;
    }>;
  };
  readonly rootPkg: {
    name: string;
    version?: string;
  };
  // all unique packages in the graph (including root package)
  getPkgs(): Array<{
    name: string;
    version?: string;
  }>;
  // all unique packages in the graph, except the root package
  getDepPkgs(): Array<{
    name: string;
    version?: string;
  }>;
  pkgPathsToRoot(pkg: Pkg): Array<Array<{
    name: string;
    version?: string;
  }>>;
  directDepsLeadingTo(pkg: Pkg): Array<{
    name: string;
    version?: string;
  }>;
  countPathsToRoot(pkg: Pkg): number;
  toJSON(): DepGraphData;
  equals(other: DepGraph, options?: { compareRoot?: boolean }): boolean;
}
```

### `DepGraphData`

A dep-graph can be serialised into the following format:

```typescript
export interface DepGraphData {
  schemaVersion: string;
  pkgManager: {
    name: string;
    version?: string;
    repositories?: Array<{
      alias: string;
    }>;
  };
  pkgs: Array<{
    id: string;
    info: {
      name: string;
      version?: string;
    };
  }>;
  graph: {
    rootNodeId: string;
    nodes: Array<{
      nodeId: string;
      pkgId: string;
      info?: {
        versionProvenance?: {
          type: string;
          location: string;
          property?: {
            name: string;
          };
        },
        labels?: {
          [key: string]: string | undefined;
        };
      };
      deps: Array<{
        nodeId: string;
      }>;
    }>;
  };
}
```

### `createFromJSON`

`DepGraphData` can be used to construct a `DepGraph` instance using `createFromJSON`

### `DepGraphBuilder`
`DepGraphBuilder` is used to create new `DepGraph` instances by adding packages and their connections.

```typescript
  /**
   * Instantiates build for given package manager
   *
   * @param pkgManager - package manager for which dependcy graph is created
   * @param rootPkg - root package information
   *
   */
  public constructor(pkgManager: types.PkgManager, rootPkg?: types.PkgInfo)

  /**
   * Adds node to the graph. Every node represents logical instance of the package in the dependency graph.
   *
   * @param pkgInfo - name and version of the package
   * @param nodeId - identifier for node in the graph, e.g. `package@version`.
   *                 Must uniquely identify this "instance" of the package in the graph,
   *                 so may need to be more than `package@version` for many ecosystems.
   *                 If in doubt - ask a contributor!
   * @param nodeInfo - additional node info, e.g. for version provenance
   *
   */
  public addPkgNode(pkgInfo: types.PkgInfo, nodeId: string, nodeInfo?: types.NodeInfo)

  /**
   * Makes a connection between parent and its dependency.
   *
   * @param parentNodeId - id of the parent node
   * @param depNodeId - id of the dependency node
   *
   */
  public connectDep(parentNodeId: string, depNodeId: string)

  /**
   * Creates an instance of DepGraph
   *
   * @return DepGraph instance built from provided packages and their connections
   *
   */
  public build(): types.DepGraph

```
### The `legacy` module

A `DepTree` is a legacy structure used by the Snyk CLI to represent dependency trees. Conversion functions in the `legacy` module ease the gradual migration of code that relies on the legacy format.

#### Legacy `DepTree`

A `DepTree` is a recursive structure that is quite similar to the output of `npm list --json`, and (omitting some details) looks like:

```typescript
interface DepTree {
  name: string;
  version: string;
  dependencies?: {
    [depName: string]: DepTree
  };
}
```

The `legacy` conversion functions aim to maintain extra data that might be attached to the dep-tree and is dependant upon in code that wasn't yet updated to use solely dep-graphs:
* `targetOS` which exists on tree roots for Docker scans
* `versionProvenance` which might exist on the nodes of maven trees, storing information about the source manifest that caused the specfic version to be resolved