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 <sozin...@gmail.com> 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!
