Reference

This section details the core API reference along with other more elaborate details about BuildStream internals.

• Project format
  • Introduction
  • Project configuration
  • Declaring elements
  • Builtin public data
  • The project.refs file
• Plugin specific documentation
  • Elements
  • Sources
  • External plugins
• Plugin API reference
  • Foundation types
  • FastEnum
  • CoreWarnings
  • OverlapAction
  • SourceRef
  • Node - Parsed YAML configuration
  • MappingNode
  • Node
  • ProvenanceInformation
  • ScalarNode
  • SequenceNode
  • Plugin - Base plugin class
  • Plugin
  • Source - Base source class
  • SourceFetcher - Object for fetching individual URLs
  • SourceError
  • AliasSubstitution
  • SourceFetcher
  • Source
  • SourceMirror - Base source mirror class
  • SourceMirrorError
  • SourceMirror
  • DownloadableFileSource - Abstract class for sources downloaded from a URI
  • DownloadableFileSource
  • Element - Base element class
  • ElementError
  • DependencyConfiguration
  • Element
  • BuildElement - Abstract class for build elements
  • BuildElement
  • ScriptElement - Abstract class for scripting elements
  • ScriptElement
  • setup()
  • Sandbox - The build sandbox
  • SandboxCommandError
  • Sandbox
  • Directory - Interfacing with files
  • DirectoryError
  • FileType
  • FileStat
  • Directory
  • Exceptions - API for Error Handling
  • ErrorDomain
  • LoadErrorReason
  • Utilities
  • UtilError
  • ProgramNotFoundError
  • DirectoryExistsError
  • FileListResult
  • list_relative_paths()
  • glob()
  • sha256sum()
  • safe_copy()
  • safe_link()
  • safe_remove()
  • copy_files()
  • link_files()
  • get_host_tool()
  • get_bst_version()
  • move_atomic()
  • save_file_atomic()
  • get_umask()
• Additional writings
  • BuildStream and Docker