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    :copyright: Copyright (c) 2014 ftrack

.. _example/metadata:

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Using metadata
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.. currentmodule:: ftrack_api.session

Key/value metadata can be written to entities using the metadata property
and also used to query entities.

The metadata property has a similar interface as a dictionary and keys can be
printed using the keys method::

    >>> print(new_sequence['metadata'].keys())
    ['frame_padding', 'focal_length']

or items::

    >>> print(new_sequence['metadata'].items())
    [('frame_padding': '4'), ('focal_length': '70')]

Read existing metadata::

    >>> print(new_sequence['metadata']['frame_padding'])
    '4'

Setting metadata can be done in a few ways where that later one will replace
any existing metadata::

    new_sequence['metadata']['frame_padding'] = '5'
    new_sequence['metadata'] = {
        'frame_padding': '4'
    }

Entities can also be queried using metadata::

    session.query(
        'Sequence where metadata any (key is "frame_padding" and value is "4")'
    )