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PURL Type Definition: nuget

  • Type Name: NuGet
  • Description: NuGet .NET packages
  • Schema ID: https://packageurl.org/types/nuget-definition.json

PURL Syntax​

The structure of a PURL for this package type is:

pkg:nuget/<name>@<version>?<qualifiers>#<subpath>

Repository Information​

Namespace definition​

  • Requirement: Prohibited
  • Note: there is no namespace

Name definition​

  • Requirement: Required
  • Case Sensitive: Yes
  • Native Label: version
  • Note: Technically the name is case-preserving, but case-insensitive, and NuGet packages archives are case-preserving, while some NuGet API calls demand to lowercase the package name.

Version definition​

  • Requirement: Optional
  • Native Label: version
  • Note: The NuGet version is semver-like but may contain more than three segments

Examples​

  • pkg:nuget/EnterpriseLibrary.Common@6.0.1304

Note​

There is no namespace per se even if the common convention is to use dot-separated package names where the first segment is namespace-like.