[question] CLI command to discover the cmake_find_package filename from the Conan package name?

[thejohnfreeman]

The cmake_find_package generator writes a Find Module file that defines a target in a namespace. Each of these three names (filename, namespace, target) are configurable in cpp_info. For example,

        self.cpp_info.filename['cmake_find_package'] = 'BoostFile'
        self.cpp_info.names['cmake_find_package'] = 'BoostNamespace'
        self.cpp_info.name = 'BoostTarget'

will generate a file named FindBoostFile.cmake that is used like this:

find_package(BoostFile)
target_link_libraries(${target} BoostNamespace::BoostTarget)

Is there a CLI command that can print out these values given a package reference? Something like

$ conan inspect -a cpp_info.names.cmake_find_package boost/1.73.0@

[memsharded]

I think this should be updated in the markdown generator: https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/reference/generators/markdown.html
(up to my knowledge this markdown generator has not been updated yet to account for these changes)

Using it would be:

$ conan install boost/1.73.0@ -g=markdown

And you get the file with the instructions for the different generators.

[thejohnfreeman]

That's ok for a human, but I'm looking for something that can be easily consumed by a script.

[memsharded]

Ok, lets add that data to the json generator, something like from:

  "dependencies": [
    {
      "version": "1.2.11",

      "exelinkflags": [],
      "frameworks": [],
      "framework_paths": [],
      "cppflags": [],
      "name": "zlib"
    }
  ],

Add:

  "dependencies": [
    {
      "version": "1.2.11",

      "exelinkflags": [],
      "frameworks": [],
      "framework_paths": [],
      "cppflags": [],
      "name": "zlib"
      "names": {"cmake_find_package": "xxxx", "pkg_config": "yyyy"}
      "filenames": {"cmake_find_package": "zzzz"}
    }
  ],

[memsharded]

This has been added in #7690 and will be released in Conan 1.30