8. Metadata

This is a metadata handler class from the sed package

class sed.core.metadata.MetaHandler(meta=None)

Bases: object

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Parameters:

meta (typing.Optional[typing.Dict], default: None) –

property metadata: dict

Property returning the metadata dict.

Returns:

Dictionary of metadata.

Return type:

dict

add(entry, name, duplicate_policy='raise')

Add an entry to the metadata container

Parameters:

• entry (typing.Any) – dictionary containing the metadata to add.

• name (str) – name of the dictionary key under which to add entry.

• duplicate_policy (str, default: 'raise') –

  Control behaviour in case the ‘name’ key is already present in the metadata dictionary. Can be any of:

  • ”raise”: raises a DuplicateEntryError.

  • ”overwrite”: overwrites the previous data with the new one.

  • ”merge”: If entry is a dictionary, recursively merges it into the existing one, overwriting existing entries. Otherwise the same as “overwrite”.

  • ”append”: adds a trailing number, keeping both entries.

Raises:

DuplicateEntryError – Raised if an entry already exists.

Return type:

None

add_processing(method, **kwds)

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from_nexus(val)

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to_nexus(val)

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from_json(val)

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to_json(val)

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from_dict(val)

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to_dict(val)

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exception sed.core.metadata.DuplicateEntryError

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