Ah, didn't know that the schema class had a metadata member, thank you! Just tried it out using the demo client and server provided in the python/examples, and it worked like a charm. (Looks like `add_metadata` is deprecated, and `with_metadata
On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 12:09 PM Wes McKinney <[email protected]> wrote: > You can put that metadata in the data schema, is there a reason that > won't work? > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 10:43 AM sozin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello! I'm using the Python client library, and would like to include > some additional meta-data to the server during the do_put call. For example, > > > > `lineage = dict(id=id, > > created_by=user_name, > > created_on=creation_date, > > derived_from=[derived_from_id], > > git_sha=git_sha) > > client.do_put(flight_descriptor, schema, lineage) > > ` > > (I have a requirement to track the data lineage for columnar-oriented > data, hence the meta-data contains things like who made the df, when they > made it, the gitsha of the program that made the data, etc). > > > > I have gone through the flight descriptor code to see if it had anything > to help me (hoping for something generic like > `fight_descriptor.set_property("meta_data", meta_data)` that I could use > during the server's `do_put`), but found nothing :-( > > > > Any thoughts on how I might accomplish this? Thanks in advance! >
