Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parsing extra metadata

[Tom Rondeau]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Daniel Marlow <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

   I am trying to add some extra information to the standard metadata file header.    

   Following the information posted on http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/page_metadata.html , I am able to write and read the standard metadata.    I have attempted to add extra metadata with the following lines in my flowgraph:

                # add some extra meta data

key = pmt.pmt_intern("dummy")

val = pmt.pmt_from_long(77) 

extras = pmt.pmt_make_dict()

extras = pmt.pmt_dict_add(extras, key, val)

extras_str = pmt.pmt_serialize_str(extras)

                nItems = 1024*size

self.blocks_file_meta_sink_0 =  blocks.file_meta_sink(gr.sizeof_float*1,"./meta_test.dat",

  samp_rate, 1, blocks.GR_FILE_FLOAT, False, nItems, extras_str, True)

self.blocks_file_meta_sink_0.set_unbuffered(False)

  I think that the writing is going OK, since the length of the header increases by a reasonable amount and a Unix hexdump indicates that the "dummy" data is present.   However, I am stuck when it comes to getting at the extra data using the parse_file_metadata functions.  In particular, when I try to read the data using:

        cHeader = c[0:185]   # character array read from file 

    pmt_dict = pmt.pmt_deserialize_str(cHeader) 

    p = parse_file_metadata.parse_header(pmt_dict,False)

    p_extra = parse_file_metadata.parse_extra_dict(pmt_dict,info,True)

    

The first parse_file_metadata line successfully provides the standard metadata, but the second parse_file_metadata does not provide the extra "dummy" data.   I suspect that it has to do with my poor understanding of what should go in the info argument.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Dan Marlow

Dan,

What happens when you run gr_read_metadata on the file that's created? Does that show your extra header info?

Tom