dfx schema

Reference

The dfx schema command prints the schema for dfx.json.

Basic usage

dfx schema [option] [flag]

You can use the following option with the dfx schema command.

Option	Description
`--for <dfx/networks>`	Display schema for which JSON file. (default: dfx, possible values: dfx, networks, dfx-metadata)
`--outfile <outfile>`	Specifies a file to output the schema to instead of printing it to stdout.

You can print the schema for dfx.json by running the following command:

dfx schema

You can print the schema for networks.json by running the following command:

dfx schema --for networks

You can print the schema for the "dfx" metadata JSON (which contains fields such as "pullable", "tech_stack", etc) by running the following command:

dfx schema --for dfx-metadata

If you want to write the schema for dfx.json to path/to/file/schema.json, you can do so by running the following command:

dfx schema --outfile path/to/file/schema.json