# ComponentCandidate
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Contains information about a component that is a candidate to deploy to a Greengrass core device.

## Contents
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 ** componentName **   <a name="greengrassv2-Type-ComponentCandidate-componentName"></a>
The name of the component.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.  
Required: No

 ** componentVersion **   <a name="greengrassv2-Type-ComponentCandidate-componentVersion"></a>
The version of the component.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.  
Required: No

 ** versionRequirements **   <a name="greengrassv2-Type-ComponentCandidate-versionRequirements"></a>
The version requirements for the component's dependencies. Greengrass core devices get the version requirements from component recipes.  
 AWS IoT Greengrass V2 uses semantic version constraints. For more information, see [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).  
Type: String to string map  
Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.  
Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.  
Required: No

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/greengrassv2-2020-11-30/ComponentCandidate) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/greengrassv2-2020-11-30/ComponentCandidate) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/greengrassv2-2020-11-30/ComponentCandidate)