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# Artifacts

Starting with Julia 1.6, the artifacts support has moved from `Pkg.jl` to Julia itself. Until proper documentation can be added here, you can learn more about artifacts in the `Pkg.jl` manual at https://julialang.github.io/Pkg.jl/v1/artifacts/.

Julia 1.6

Julia's artifacts API requires at least Julia 1.6. In Julia versions 1.3 to 1.5, you can use `Pkg.Artifacts` instead.

`Artifacts.artifact_meta` — Function

    artifact_meta(name::String, artifacts_toml::String;
                  platform::AbstractPlatform = HostPlatform(),
                  pkg_uuid::Union{Base.UUID,Nothing}=nothing)

Get metadata about a given artifact (identified by name) stored within the given `(Julia)Artifacts.toml` file. If the artifact is platform-specific, use `platform` to choose the most appropriate mapping. If none is found, return `nothing`.

Julia 1.3

This function requires at least Julia 1.3.

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`Artifacts.artifact_hash` — Function

    artifact_hash(name::String, artifacts_toml::String;
                  platform::AbstractPlatform = HostPlatform())

Thin wrapper around `artifact_meta()` to return the hash of the specified, platform- collapsed artifact. Returns `nothing` if no mapping can be found.

Julia 1.3

This function requires at least Julia 1.3.

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`Artifacts.find_artifacts_toml` — Function

    find_artifacts_toml(path::String)

Given the path to a `.jl` file, (such as the one returned by `__source__.file` in a macro context), find the `(Julia)Artifacts.toml` that is contained within the containing project (if it exists), otherwise return `nothing`.

Julia 1.3

This function requires at least Julia 1.3.

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`Artifacts.@artifact_str` — Macro

    macro artifact_str(name)

Return the on-disk path to an artifact. Automatically looks the artifact up by name in the project's `(Julia)Artifacts.toml` file. Throws an error on if the requested artifact is not present. If run in the REPL, searches for the toml file starting in the current directory, see `find_artifacts_toml()` for more.

If the artifact is marked "lazy" and the package has `using LazyArtifacts` defined, the artifact will be downloaded on-demand with `Pkg` the first time this macro tries to compute the path. The files will then be left installed locally for later.

If `name` contains a forward or backward slash, all elements after the first slash will be taken to be path names indexing into the artifact, allowing for an easy one-liner to access a single file/directory within an artifact. Example:

    ffmpeg_path = @artifact"FFMPEG/bin/ffmpeg"

Julia 1.3

This macro requires at least Julia 1.3.

Julia 1.6

Slash-indexing requires at least Julia 1.6.

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`Artifacts.artifact_exists` — Function

    artifact_exists(hash::SHA1; honor_overrides::Bool=true)

Return whether or not the given artifact (identified by its sha1 git tree hash) exists on-disk. Note that it is possible that the given artifact exists in multiple locations (e.g. within multiple depots).

Julia 1.3

This function requires at least Julia 1.3.

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`Artifacts.artifact_path` — Function

    artifact_path(hash::SHA1; honor_overrides::Bool=true)

Given an artifact (identified by SHA1 git tree hash), return its installation path. If the artifact does not exist, returns the location it would be installed to.

Julia 1.3

This function requires at least Julia 1.3.

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`Artifacts.select_downloadable_artifacts` — Function

    select_downloadable_artifacts(artifacts_toml::String;
                                  platform = HostPlatform,
                                  include_lazy = false,
                                  pkg_uuid = nothing)

Return a dictionary where every entry is an artifact from the given `Artifacts.toml` that should be downloaded for the requested platform. Lazy artifacts are included if `include_lazy` is set.

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