Get Wrapper Metadata
Some application developers may be interested adding or retrieving wrapper metadata. Wrapper developers can add metadata to their wrappers by writing a Meta Manifest file. Application developers can obtain the Meta Manifest as an object or class in the client's native language.
More information about the contents of the Meta Manifest can be found in Add Metadata.
The client's getFile
method can be used to retrieve a file from a wrapper. It uses the wrapper URI as the root path.
To obtain icons from paths listed in a wrapper's Meta Manifest, use getFile
again.
The return type of getFile
will be a string if the encoding
option is used, and an ArrayBuffer otherwise.
We wrote a React app to demo fetching and displaying wrapper metadata. You can view the source code here.