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<h1>The Bazel Query Reference</h1>
<p>
When you use <code>bazel query</code> to analyze build
dependencies, you use a little language, the <em>Bazel Query
Language</em>. This document is the reference manual for that
language. This document also describes the output
formats <code>bazel query</code> supports.
</p>
<h2>Examples</h2>
<p>
How do people use <code>bazel query</code>? Here are typical examples:
</p>
<p>
Why does the <code>//foo</code> tree depend on <code>//bar/baz</code>?
Show a path:</p>
<pre>somepath(foo/..., //bar/baz:all)</pre>
<p>
What C++ libraries do all the <code>foo</code> tests depend on that
the <code>foo_bin</code> target does not?</p>
<pre>kind("cc_library", deps(kind(".*test rule", foo/...)) except deps(//foo:foo_bin))</pre>
<h2>Tokens: the lexical syntax</h2>
<p>
Expressions in the query language are composed of the following
tokens:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
<b>Keywords</b>, such as <code>somepath</code> or
<code>let</code>. Keywords are the reserved words of the
language, and each of them is described below. The complete set
of keywords is:
</p>
<code><!-- keep this alphabetically sorted -->
<a href="#path-operators">allpaths</a><br/>
<a href="#attr">attr</a><br/>
<a href="#buildfiles">buildfiles</a><br/>
<a href="#deps">deps</a><br/>
<a href="#set-operations">except</a><br/>
<a href="#filter">filter</a><br/>
<a href="#variables">in</a><br/>
<a href="#set-operations">intersect</a><br/>
<a href="#kind">kind</a><br/>
<a href="#labels">labels</a><br/>
<a href="#variables">let</a><br/>
<a href="#rdeps">rdeps</a><br/>
<a href="#set">set</a><br/>
<a href="#some">some</a><br/>
<a href="#path-operators">somepath</a><br/>
<a href="#tests">tests</a><br/>
<a href="#set-operations">union</a><br/>
</code>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<b>Words</b>, such as <code>foo/...</code> or
<code>".*test rule"</code> or
<code>//bar/baz:all</code>.
If a character sequence is "quoted" (begins and ends with a
single-quote <code>'</code>, or begins and ends with a
double-quote <code>"</code>), it is a word.
If a character sequence is not quoted, it may still be parsed as a word.
Unquoted words are sequences of characters drawn from
the set of alphabet characters, numerals, slash <code>/</code>,
hyphen <code>-</code>, underscore <code>_</code>, star <code>*</code>, and
period <code>.</code>. Unquoted words may not start with a
hyphen or period.
</p>
<p>We chose this syntax so that quote marks aren't needed in most cases.
The (unusual) <code>".*test rule"</code> example needs quotes: it
starts with a period and contains a space.
Quoting <code>"cc_library"</code> is unnecessary but harmless.
</p>
<p>
Quoting <em>is</em> necessary when writing scripts that
construct Bazel query expressions from user-supplied values.
</p>
<pre>
//foo:bar+wiz # WRONG: scanned as //foo:bar + wiz.
//foo:bar=wiz # WRONG: scanned as //foo:bar = wiz.
"//foo:bar+wiz" # ok.
"//foo:bar=wiz" # ok.
</pre>
<p>
Note that this quoting is in addition to any quoting that may
be required by your shell. e.g.
</p>
<pre>% bazel query ' "//foo:bar=wiz" ' # single-quotes for shell, double-quotes for Bazel.</pre>
<p>
Keywords, when quoted, are treated as ordinary words, thus
<code>some</code> is a keyword but <code>"some"</code> is a word.
Both <code>foo</code> and <code>"foo"</code> are words.
</p>
<li><b>Punctuation</b>, such as parens <code>()</code>, period
<code>.</code> and comma <code>,</code>, etc. Words containing
punctuation (other than the exceptions listed above) must be quoted.
</ul>
<p>
Whitespace characters outside of a quoted word are ignored.
</p>
<h2 id='concepts'>Bazel Query Language Concepts</h2>
<p>
The Bazel query language is a language of expressions. Every
expression evaluates to a <b>partially-ordered set</b> of targets,
or equivalently, a <b>graph</b> (DAG) of targets. This is the only
datatype.
</p>
<p>
In some expressions, the partial order of the graph is
not interesting; In this case, we call the values
"sets". In cases where the partial order of elements
is significant, we call values "graphs". Note
that both terms refer to the same datatype, but merely emphasize
different aspects of it.
</p>
<h3>Cycles in the dependency graph</h3>
<p>
Build dependency graphs should be acyclic, but in fact cycles do occur.
The algorithms used by the query language are intended for use in
acyclic graphs, but are robust against cycles. The details of how
cycles are treated are not specified and should not be relied upon.
</p>
<h3 id='implicit_deps'>Implicit dependencies</h3>
<p>
In addition to build dependencies that are defined explicitly in BUILD files,
Bazel adds additional <em>implicit</em> dependencies to rules. For example
every Java rule implicitly depends on the JavaBuilder. Implicit dependencies
are established using attributes that start with <code>$</code> and they
cannot overridden in BUILD files.
</p>
<p>
Per default <code>bazel query</code> takes implicit dependencies into account
when computing the query result. This behavior can be changed with
the <code>--[no]implicit_deps</code> option.
</p>
<h3 id='soundness'>Soundness</h3>
<p>
Bazel query language expressions operate over the build
dependency graph, which is the graph implicitly defined by all
rule declarations in all BUILD files. It is important to understand
that this graph is somewhat abstract, and does not constitute a
complete description of how to perform all the steps of a build. In
order to perform a build, a <em>configuration</em> is required too;
see the <a href='bazel-user-manual.html#configurations'>configurations</a>
section of the User's Guide for more detail.
</p>
<p>
The result of evaluating an expression in the Bazel query language
is true <em>for all configurations</em>, which means that it may be
a conservative over-approximation, and not exactly precise. If you
use the query tool to compute the set of all source files needed
during a build, it may report more than are actually necessary
because, for example, the query tool will include all the files
needed to support message translation, even though you don't intend
to use that feature in your build.
</p>
<h4 id='unsoundness'>Unsoundness</h4>
<p>
Beware, there are a few limited cases where the query tool
returns an under-approximation or is <em>unsound</em>. (You can find
them by comparing the results of a <code>bazel query</code> with the
set of files mentioned in the Makefile obtained
from <a href='bazel-user-manual.html#--dump_makefile'><code>bazel
build --dump_makefile</code></a>.
</p>
<h3 id='graph-order'>On the preservation of graph order</h3>
<p>
Operations preserve any ordering
constraints inherited from their subexpressions. You can think of
this as "the law of conservation of partial order". Consider an
example: if you issue a query to determine the transitive closure of
dependencies of a particular target, the resulting set is ordered
according to the dependency graph. If you filter that set to
include only the targets of <code>file</code> kind, the same
<em>transitive</em> partial ordering relation holds between every
pair of targets in the resulting subset—even though none of
these pairs is actually directly connected in the original graph.
(There are no file–file edges in the build dependency graph).
</p>
<p>
However, while all operators <em>preserve</em> order, some
operations, such as the <a href='#set-operations'>set operations</a>
don't <em>introduce</em> any ordering constraints of their own.
Consider this expression:
</p>
<pre>deps(x) union y</pre>
<p>
The order of the final result set is guaranteed to preserve all the
ordering constraints of its subexpressions, namely, that all the
transitive dependencies of <code>x</code> are correctly ordered with
respect to each other. However, the query guarantees nothing about
the ordering of the targets in <code>y</code>, nor about the
ordering of the targets in <code>deps(x)</code> relative to those in
<code>y</code> (except for those targets in
<code>y</code> that also happen to be in <code>deps(x)</code>).
</p>
<p>
Operators that introduce ordering constraints include:
<code>allpaths</code>,
<code>deps</code>,
<code>rdeps</code>,
<code>somepath</code>,
and the target pattern wildcards
<code>package:*</code>,
<code>dir/...</code>, etc.
</p>
<h2>Expressions: syntax and semantics of the grammar</h2>
<p>
This is the grammar of the Bazel query language, expressed in EBNF
notation:
</p>
<pre>expr ::= <var>word</var>
| let <var>name</var> = <var>expr</var> in <var>expr</var>
| (<var>expr</var>)
| <var>expr</var> intersect <var>expr</var>
| <var>expr</var> ^ <var>expr</var>
| <var>expr</var> union <var>expr</var>
| <var>expr</var> + <var>expr</var>
| <var>expr</var> except <var>expr</var>
| <var>expr</var> - <var>expr</var>
| deps(<var>expr</var>)
| deps(<var>expr</var>, <var>depth</var>)
| rdeps(<var>expr</var>, <var>expr</var>)
| rdeps(<var>expr</var>, <var>expr</var>, <var>depth</var>)
| some(<var>expr</var>)
| somepath(<var>expr</var>, <var>expr</var>)
| allpaths(<var>expr</var>, <var>expr</var>)
| kind(<var>word</var>, <var>expr</var>)
| labels(<var>word</var>, <var>expr</var>)
| filter(<var>word</var>, <var>expr</var>)
| set(<var>word</var> *)
| attr(<var>word</var>, <var>word</var>, <var>expr</var>)
</pre>
<p>
We will examine each of the productions of this grammar in order.
</p>
<h3 id="target-patterns">Target patterns</h3>
<pre>expr ::= <var>word</var></pre>
<p>
Syntactically, a <em>target pattern</em> is just a word. It
is interpreted as an (unordered) set of targets. The simplest
target pattern is a label,
which identifies a single target (file or rule). For example, the
target pattern <code>//foo:bar</code> evaluates to a set
containing one element, the target, the <code>bar</code>
rule.
</p>
<p>
Target patterns generalize labels to include wildcards over packages
and targets. For example, <code>foo/...:all</code> (or
just <code>foo/...</code>) is a target pattern that evaluates to a
set containing all <em>rules</em> in every package recursively
beneath the <code>foo</code> directory;
<code>bar/baz:all</code> is a target pattern that
evaluates to a set containing all the rules in the
<code>bar/baz</code> package, but not its subpackages.
</p>
<p>
Similarly, <code>foo/...:*</code> is a target pattern that evaluates
to a set containing all <em>targets</em> (rules <em>and</em> files) in
every package recursively beneath the <code>foo</code> directory;
<code>bar/baz:*</code> evaluates to a set containing
all the targets in the
<code>bar/baz</code> package, but not its subpackages.
</p>
<p>
Because the <code>:*</code> wildcard matches files as well as rules,
it is often more useful than <code>:all</code> for queries.
Conversely, the <code>:all</code> wildcard (implicit in target
patterns like <code>foo/...</code>) is typically more useful for
builds.
</p>
<p>
<code>bazel query</code> target patterns work the same as
<code>bazel build</code> build targets do;
refer to <a href='bazel-user-manual.html#target-patterns'>Target Patterns</a>
in the Bazel User Manual for further details, or type <code>bazel
help target-syntax</code>.
</p>
<p>
Target patterns may evaluate to a singleton set (in the case of a
label), to a set containing many elements (as in the case of
<code>foo/...</code>, which has thousands of elements) or to the
empty set, if the target pattern matches no targets.
</p>
<p>
All nodes in the result of a target pattern expression are correctly
ordered relative to each other according to the dependency relation.
So, the result of <code>foo:*</code> is not just the set of targets
in package <code>foo</code>, it is also the <em>graph</em> over
those targets. (No guarantees are made about the relative ordering
of the result nodes against other nodes.) See the section
on <a href='#graph-order'>graph order</a> for more details.
</p>
<h3 id="variables">Variables</h3>
<pre>expr ::= let <var>name</var> = <var>expr</var><sub>1</sub> in <var>expr</var><sub>2</sub>
| <var>$name</var></pre>
<p>
The Bazel query language allows definitions of and references to
variables. The
result of evaluation of a <code>let</code> expression is the same as
that of <var>expr</var><sub>2</sub>, with all free occurrences of
variable <var>name</var> replaced by the value of
<var>expr</var><sub>1</sub>.
</p>
<p>
For example, <code>let v = foo/... in allpaths($v, //common)
intersect $v</code> is equivalent to the <code>allpaths(foo/...,
//common) intersect foo/...</code>.
</p>
<p>
An occurrence of a variable reference <code>name</code> other than in
an enclosing <code>let <var>name</var> = ...</code> expression is an
error. In other words, toplevel query expressions cannot have free
variables.
</p>
<p>
In the above grammar productions, <code>name</code> is like
<em>word</em>, but with the additional constraint that it be a legal
identifier in the C programming language. References to the variable
must be prepended with the "$" character.
</p>
<p>
Each <code>let</code> expression defines only a single variable,
but you can nest them.
</p>
<p>
(Both <a
href='#target-patterns'>target patterns</a> and variable references
consist of just a single token, a word, creating a syntactic
ambiguity. However, there is no semantic ambiguity, because the
subset of words that are legal variable names is disjoint from the
subset of words that are legal target patterns.)
</p>
<p>
(Technically speaking, <code>let</code> expressions do not increase
the expressiveness of the query language: any query expressible in
the language can also be expressed without them. However, they
improve the conciseness of many queries, and may also lead to more
efficient query evaluation.)
</p>
<h3 id="parentheses">Parenthesized expressions</h3>
<pre>expr ::= (<var>expr</var>)</pre>
<p>
Parentheses associate subexpressions to force an
order of evaluation.
A parenthesized expression evaluates
to the value of its argument.
</p>
<h3 id="set-operations">Algebraic set operations:
intersection, union, set difference</h3>
<pre>expr ::= <var>expr</var> intersect <var>expr</var>
| <var>expr</var> ^ <var>expr</var>
| <var>expr</var> union <var>expr</var>
| <var>expr</var> + <var>expr</var>
| <var>expr</var> except <var>expr</var>
| <var>expr</var> - <var>expr</var>
</pre>
<p>
These three operators compute the usual set operations over their
arguments. Each operator has two forms, a nominal form such
as <code>intersect</code> and a symbolic form such
as <code>^</code>. Both forms are equivalent;
the symbolic forms are quicker to type. (For clarity, the rest of
this manual uses the nominal forms.) For example,
</p>
<pre>foo/... except foo/bar/...</pre>
evaluates to the set of targets that match
<code>foo/...</code> but not
<code>foo/bar/...</code> . Equivalently:
<pre>foo/... - foo/bar/...</pre>
The <code>intersect</code> (<code>^</code>)
and <code>union</code> (<code>+</code>) operations are commutative
(symmetric); <code>except</code> (<code>-</code>) is
asymmetric. The parser treats all three operators as
left-associative and of equal precedence, so you might want parentheses.
For example, the first two of these expressions are
equivalent, but the third is not:
<pre>x intersect y union z
(x intersect y) union z
x intersect (y union z)</pre>
<p>
(We strongly recommend that you use parentheses where there is
any danger of ambiguity in reading a query expression.)
</p>
<h3 id="set">Read targets from an external source: set</h3>
<pre>expr ::= set(<var>word</var> *) </pre>
<p>
The <code>set(<var>a</var> <var>b</var> <var>c</var> ...)</code>
operator computes the union of a set of zero or
more <a href='#target-patterns'>target patterns</a>, separated by
whitespace (no commas).
</p>
<p>
In conjunction with the Bourne shell's <code>$(...)</code>
feature, <code>set()</code> provides a means of saving the results
of one query in a regular text file, manipulating that text file
using other programs (e.g. standard UNIX shell tools), and then
introducing the result back into the query tool as a value for
further processing. For example:
</p>
<pre>
% bazel query deps(//my:target) --output=label | grep ... | sed ... | awk ... > foo
% bazel query "kind(cc_binary, set($(<foo)))"
</pre>
<p>
In the next example, <code>kind(cc_library,
deps(//some_dir/foo:main, 5))</code> is effectively computed
by filtering on the <code>maxrank</code> values using
an <code>awk</code> program.
</p>
<pre>
% bazel query 'deps(//some_dir/foo:main)' --output maxrank |
awk '($1 < 5) { print $2;} ' > foo
% bazel query "kind(cc_library, set($(<foo)))"
</pre>
<p>
In these examples, <code>$(<foo)</code> is a shorthand
for <code>$(cat foo)</code>, but shell commands other
than <code>cat</code> may be used too—such as
the previous <code>awk</code> command.
</p>
<p>
Note, <code>set()</code> introduces no graph ordering constraints,
so path information may be lost when saving and reloading sets of
nodes using it. See the <a href='#graph-order'>graph order</a>
section below for more detail.
</p>
<h3 id="deps">Transitive closure of dependencies: deps</h3>
<pre>expr ::= deps(<var>expr</var>)
| deps(<var>expr</var>, <var>depth</var>)</pre>
<p>
The <code>deps(<var>x</var>)</code> operator evaluates to the graph
formed by the transitive closure of dependencies of its argument set
<var>x</var>. For example, the value of <code>deps(//foo)</code> is
the dependency graph rooted at the single node <code>foo</code>,
including all its dependencies. The value of
<code>deps(foo/...)</code> is the dependency graphs whose roots are
all rules in every package beneath the <code>foo</code> directory.
Please note that 'dependencies' means only rule and file targets
in this context, therefore the BUILD, Skylark and EBL files needed to
create these targets are not included here. For that you should use the
<a href="#buildfiles"><code>buildfiles</code></a> operator.
</p>
<p>
The resulting graph is ordered according to the dependency relation.
See the section on <a href='#graph-order'>graph order</a> for more
details.
</p>
<p>
The <code>deps</code> operator accepts an optional second argument,
which is an integer literal specifying an upper bound on the depth
of the search. So <code>deps(foo:*, 1)</code> evaluates to all the
direct prerequisites of any target in the <code>foo</code> package,
and <code>deps(foo:*, 2)</code> further includes the nodes directly
reachable from the nodes in <code>deps(foo:*, 1)</code>, and so on.
(These numbers correspond to the ranks shown in
the <a href='#output-ranked'><code>minrank</code></a> output
format.) If the <var>depth</var> parameter is omitted, the search
is unbounded, i.e. it computes the reflexive transitive closure of
prerequsites.
</p>
<h3 id="rdeps">Transitive closure of reverse dependencies: rdeps</h3>
<pre>expr ::= rdeps(<var>expr</var>, <var>expr</var>)
| rdeps(<var>expr</var>, <var>expr</var>, <var>depth</var>)</pre>
<p>
The <code>rdeps(<var>u</var>, <var>x</var>)</code> operator evaluates
to the reverse dependencies of the argument set <var>x</var> within the
transitive closure of the universe set <var>u</var>.
</p>
<p>
The resulting graph is ordered according to the dependency relation. See the
section on <a href='#graph-order'>graph order</a> for more details.
</p>
<p>
The <code>rdeps</code> operator accepts an optional third argument,
which is an integer literal specifying an upper bound on the depth of the
search. The resulting graph will only include nodes within a distance of the
specified depth from any node in the argument set. So
<code>rdeps(//foo, //common, 1)</code> evaluates to all nodes in the
transitive closure of <code>//common</code> that directly depend on
<code>//common</code>. (These numbers correspond to the ranks shown in the
<a href='#output-ranked'><code>minrank</code></a> output format.) If the
<var>depth</var> parameter is omitted, the search is unbounded.
</p>
<h3 id="some">Arbitrary choice: some</h3>
<pre>expr ::= some(<var>expr</var>)</pre>
<p>
The <code>some(<var>x</var>)</code> operator selects one target
arbitrarily from its argument set <var>x</var>, and evaluates to a
singleton set containing only that target. For example, the
expression <code>some(//foo:main union //bar:baz)</code>
evaluates to a set containing either <code>//foo:main</code> or
<code>//bar:baz</code>—though which one is not defined.
</p>
<p>
If the argument is a singleton, then <code>some</code>
computes the identity function: <code>some(//foo:main)</code> is
equivalent to <code>//foo:main</code>.
It is an error if the specified argument set is empty, as in the
expression <code>some(//foo:main intersect //bar:baz)</code>.
</p>
<h3 id="path-operators">Path operators: somepath, allpaths</h3>
<pre>expr ::= somepath(<var>expr</var>, <var>expr</var>)
| allpaths(<var>expr</var>, <var>expr</var>)</pre>
<p>
The <code>somepath(<var>S</var>, <var>E</var>)</code> and
<code>allpaths(<var>S</var>, <var>E</var>)</code> operators compute
paths between two sets of targets. Both queries accept two
arguments, a set <var>S</var> of starting points and a set
<var>E</var> of ending points. <code>somepath</code> returns the
graph of nodes on <em>some</em> arbitrary path from a target in
<var>S</var> to a target in <var>E</var>; <code>allpaths</code>
returns the graph of nodes on <em>all</em> paths from any target in
<var>S</var> to any target in <var>E</var>.
</p>
<p>
The resulting graphs are ordered according to the dependency relation.
See the section on <a href='#graph-order'>graph order</a> for more
details.
</p>
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<p><code>somepath(S1 + S2, E)</code>,<br/>another possible result.</p>
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