Recover composer.json

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Recover Missing composer.json

If you ever missing composer.json but the packages are already installed, there are many ways to recover.

1. Parsing vendor/composer/installed.json

You can parse json from this file, then grab the package name or version.

2. Using composer show --installed then RegEx

Run the recover.py and customize as you like.

list-installed-packages.txt

askvortsov/flarum-copy-links            v0.1.1         Copy Discussion and Post links in Flarum
askvortsov/flarum-help-tags             v0.1.4         Allow members to post in a tag, but only see discuss...
askvortsov/flarum-pwa                   v1.0.3         Turn your flarum site into a progressive web app!
axy/backtrace                           1.0.7          Tracing in PHP
axy/codecs-base64vlq                    1.0.1          Codec for VLQ (variable-length quantity) Base64 algo...
axy/errors                              1.0.5          Exceptions in PHP
axy/sourcemap                           0.1.5          Work with JavaScript/CSS Source Map
components/font-awesome                 5.9.0          Font Awesome, the iconic SVG, font, and CSS framework.
dflydev/fig-cookies                     v1.0.2         Cookies for PSR-7 HTTP Message Interface.
doctrine/cache                          1.10.2         PHP Doctrine Cache library is a popular cache implem...

recover.py

import re

composer_string = open('list-installed-packages.txt', 'r')

for installed in composer_string:

    package = re.search("^[a-z0-9]+(?:/[a-z0-9-.]+)", installed)
    version = re.search("(\d+\.)(\d+\.)(\d+)", installed)

    if package and version:
        print(package.group(), end=" ")
        # print(package.group(), version.group())
        # print([package.group(), version.group()])
        # print('"{}": "^{}"'.format(package.group(), version.group()))