caterva2.File.vlmeta

property File.vlmeta

A mapping of metalayer names to their respective values.

Used to access variable-length metalayers (i.e. user attributes) for a file.

>>> import caterva2 as cat2
>>> root = cat2.Root('example', 'https://demo.caterva2.net')
>>> file = root['ds-sc-attr.b2nd']
>>> file.vlmeta
{'a': 1, 'b': 'foo', 'c': 123.456}