Inspect daml packages using the grpc/json API

[Luciano]

There are a couple of existing posts that talk about inspecting dar files - perhaps you can start here:

Given a DAR file, is there a good way to list the templates defined within that file?

Given a DAR file, is there a way from the command line to get a list of the templates (including package ID’s) defined within that DAR file? Alternatively, can damlc produce such a list while building a DAR? I’m using DAZL and looking for a way to more easily bind symbolic template names to fully qualified (with package ID) template names.

Converting GetPackageResponse to local dar file

Hi team, So I’m interacting with a remote ledger and wish to download all the deployed packages on the remote node. Then I wish to run Java Codegen locally using the downloaded package. Then I wish to be able to upload that package again and interact with it using my Java Codegen/Bindings. I’ve used the PackageClient to receive the GetPackageResponse. However, I’m unsure as to how I can convert this to a local dar file. I tried writing the GetPackageResponse.archivePayload byte array to a loca…