is there a way to make the

./pants

command output the field values for a given target? or would i have to write a goal for that

Yes, ./pants target-types —details=my_tgt, but fix the dash because I’m on my phone

oh i meant the actual values for that field as defined in the BUILD file

Oh, there’s a long standing proposal for a peek goal! I’d like to have it. https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/4861 Let us know if you’d be interested in contributing and we’d be happy to add some instructions. I don’t expect it to be too challenging, especially since you’re familiar with plugins

yes, sure...i'm willing to contribute, as well as on some of the doc stuff

Awesome! No rush, we definitely won’t get

peek()

into 2.0.0. I’ll add some thoughts on two different approaches