How do we load metadata?

[amanpatel]

It seems that the tables provided with the reference implementation of elixir do not support metadata. Is this something being considered for a future version? Or am I missing something?

[sdelatorrep]

What do you mean with "metadata"? Could you elaborate, please? Thanks!

[amanpatel]

Its in the response schema here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdelatorrep/beacon-team/openapi_v2.0/beacon.yaml#/definitions/BeaconAlleleResponse

The field is called 'info', here is the relevant spec:

      info:
        description: Additional structured metadata, key-value pairs.
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: "#/definitions/KeyValuePair"

-- UPDATE --
It looks as if the info field is only part of BeaconDatasetAlleleResponse, and not BeaconAlleleResponse. I am a bit confused about the difference between the two. Really my goal is to provide additional information about the variant (things like origin, pathogenicity etc). This is actually being shown in the Beacon-network website. See the screenshot below.

[sdelatorrep]

Hi @amanpatel , you're right. The infofield only exists in the BeaconDatasetResponse, the aim of it is to provide more information about the dataset if needed. I think it's a good point to add it to the BeaconAlleleResponse too, so you can provide further information as you said. Please, open an issue in the specification repo so we can add it to next releases.
It's also true that the current database schema doesn't allow you to dynamically load this information (you can only do it hardcoding). I think this can be a nice improvement.

[sdelatorrep]

The info field is present in BeaconAlleleResponse since some time ago but it's still pending to implement a dynamic load of this information.