resolve languages
List installed CodeQL extractor packs.
Who can use this feature?
CodeQL is available for the following repository types:
- Public repositories on GitHub.com, seeGitHub CodeQL Terms and Conditions
- Organization-owned repositories on GitHub Team withGitHub Code Security enabled
In this article
Note
This content describes the most recent release of the CodeQL CLI. For more information about this release, seehttps://github.com/github/codeql-cli-binaries/releases.
To see details of the options available for this command in an earlier release, run the command with the--help
option in your terminal.
Synopsis
codeql resolve languages <options>...
codeql resolve languages <options>...
Description
List installed CodeQL extractor packs.
When run with JSON output selected, this command can report multiplelocations for each extractor pack name. When that happens, it means thatthe pack has conflicting locations within a single search element, so itcannot actually be resolved. The caller may use the actual locations toformat an appropriate error message.
Options
Primary Options
--search-path=<dir>[:<dir>...]
A list of directories under which extractor packs may be found. Thedirectories can either be the extractor packs themselves or directoriesthat contain extractors as immediate subdirectories.
If the path contains multiple directory trees, their order definesprecedence between them: if the target language is matched in more thanone of the directory trees, the one given first wins.
The extractors bundled with the CodeQL toolchain itself will always befound, but if you need to use separately distributed extractors you needto give this option (or, better yet, set up--search-path
in aper-user configuration file).
(Note: On Windows the path separator is;
).
--format=<fmt>
Select output format. Choices include:
text
(default): Print the paths to extractor packs to standardoutput.
json
: Print the paths to extractor packs as a JSON string.
betterjson
: Print details about extractor packs as a JSON string.
Common options
-h, --help
Show this help text.
-J=<opt>
[Advanced] Give option to the JVM running the command.
(Beware that options containing spaces will not be handled correctly.)
-v, --verbose
Incrementally increase the number of progress messages printed.
-q, --quiet
Incrementally decrease the number of progress messages printed.
--verbosity=<level>
[Advanced] Explicitly set the verbosity level to one of errors,warnings, progress, progress+, progress++, progress+++. Overrides-v
and-q
.
--logdir=<dir>
[Advanced] Write detailed logs to one or more files in the givendirectory, with generated names that include timestamps and the name ofthe running subcommand.
(To write a log file with a name you have full control over, insteadgive--log-to-stderr
and redirect stderr as desired.)
--common-caches=<dir>
[Advanced] Controls the location of cached data on disk that willpersist between several runs of the CLI, such as downloaded QL packs andcompiled query plans. If not set explicitly, this defaults to adirectory named.codeql
in the user's home directory; it will becreated if it doesn't already exist.
Available sincev2.15.2
.