Writing extended update metadata to the query result JSON is now optional. This greatly reduces the JSON size when update applicability rules not required in the output.

src/tools/upsync/CommandLineOptions.cs

@@ -283,6 +283,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.PackageGraph.Utilitites.Upsync
 
         [Option("json-out-path", Required = false, HelpText = "Save results as JSON to the specified path")]
         public string JsonOutPath { get; set; }
+
+        [Option("include-extended-metadata", Required = false, Default = false, HelpText = "Include extended metadata when saving to JSON query result.")]
+        public bool IncludeExtendedMetadata { get; set; }
     }
 
     [Verb("match-driver", HelpText = "Find drivers")]

src/tools/upsync/PackageMetadataPrint/MicrosoftUpdateMetadata.cs

@@ -65,9 +65,18 @@ namespace Microsoft.PackageGraph.Utilitites.Upsync
             {
                 var packagesList = filteredPackages.ToList();
 
+                if (!options.IncludeExtendedMetadata)
+                {
+                    // Remove extended metadata unless explicitly requested.
+                    // Applicability rules can be very large but of little interest
+                    packagesList.ForEach(p => p.ApplicabilityRules.Clear());
+                }
+
                 Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------");
                 Console.WriteLine($"Query returned {packagesList.Count} entries.");
 
+                if (!options.CountOnly)
+                {
                     Console.WriteLine($"Writing results to {options.JsonOutPath}.");
 
                     using (var targetJsonFile = File.Create(options.JsonOutPath))
@@ -80,9 +89,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.PackageGraph.Utilitites.Upsync
 
                     }
 
-                
                     Console.WriteLine($"Query result saved to {options.JsonOutPath}.");
                 }
+            }
             else
             {
                 var categoriesLookup = allCategories.ToLookup(package => package.Id.ID);

src/tools/upsync/upsync.csproj

@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
     <Description></Description>
     <BaseOutputPath>..\..\..\out\upsync</BaseOutputPath>
     <ProduceReferenceAssembly>False</ProduceReferenceAssembly>
-    <FileVersion>3.0.2.0</FileVersion>
+    <FileVersion>3.0.3.0</FileVersion>
-    <AssemblyVersion>3.0.2.0</AssemblyVersion>
+    <AssemblyVersion>3.0.3.0</AssemblyVersion>
-    <ProductVersion>3.0.2.0</ProductVersion>
+    <ProductVersion>3.0.3.0</ProductVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>