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The change adds a chunked metadata format and transport for tracker metadata. Generated pull trackers can declare metadata schemas and expose metadata through C++, Python, and facade interfaces. Live trackers assemble and validate metadata chunks, then gate data publication on metadata verification. Recording writes metadata before the data it permits, and replay loads metadata alongside data. Python schema helpers, tests, and documentation cover the new support.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SchemaMetadataPusher
  participant MetadataCollection
  participant SchemaMetadataReader
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  participant SchemaTracker
  SchemaMetadataPusher->>MetadataCollection: publish metadata chunks
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Comment on lines +50 to +63
// Metadata first, so data drained on the tick it is verified is already recorded.
m_metadata_reader.update(monotonic_time_ns);
const bool present = m_schema_reader.update(m_received, m_metadata_reader.verified());
m_metadata_reader.set_data_present(present);
if (!m_metadata_reader.verified())
{
// Do not retain a sample received before this producer's metadata was verified.
m_received.reset();
}
m_tracked = m_metadata_reader.verified() ? m_received : Serialized<@FB_TABLE@>();
}
const Serialized<@FB_TABLE@>& @LIVE_IMPL@::get_data() const
{
return m_tracked;

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sed -n '98,114p' src/core/live_trackers/cpp/inc/live_trackers/schema_tracker_base.hpp
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rg -n -F --glob '*.hpp' --glob '*.cpp' --glob '*.template' --glob '*.py' -e 'McapReader' -e 'read_message' -e 'recording_channels' -e 'metadata_channels' -e 'Replay' -e 'mcap_channel' src/core src/python | head -240
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Gate metadata-path recording on collection presence.

read_all_samples can append samples and return false. The metadata template still passes the previous verification state as record, so SchemaTracker::update writes those samples to MCAP before set_data_present(false) clears publication. Live consumers discard the samples, but replay can read the extra records. Preserve existing non-metadata callers and enable the presence gate only for this metadata path.

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diff --git a/src/core/live_trackers/cpp/inc/live_trackers/schema_tracker.hpp b/src/core/live_trackers/cpp/inc/live_trackers/schema_tracker.hpp
@@
-     * @param record False skips MCAP for this tick's samples; a tracker with metadata
-     *               records only data it can publish.
+     * @param record False skips MCAP for this tick's samples.
+     * @param record_only_if_present When true, skip MCAP if the collection is absent.
@@
-    bool update(Serialized<DataTableT>& out, bool record = true)
+    bool update(Serialized<DataTableT>& out,
+                bool record = true,
+                bool record_only_if_present = false)
@@
-        if (mcap_channels_ && record)
+        if (mcap_channels_ && record && (!record_only_if_present || present))
diff --git a/src/core/codegen/templates/pull/live_metadata.cpp.template b/src/core/codegen/templates/pull/live_metadata.cpp.template
@@
-    const bool present = m_schema_reader.update(m_received, m_metadata_reader.verified());
+    const bool present =
+        m_schema_reader.update(m_received, m_metadata_reader.verified(), /*record_only_if_present=*/true);
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Review comment at @src/core/codegen/templates/pull/live_metadata.cpp.template
around lines 50 - 63:
Update SchemaTracker::update to optionally skip MCAP recording when the
collection is absent, defaulting that option off to preserve existing callers.
In the metadata pull path, pass the option as enabled at m_schema_reader.update
so samples from absent collections are not recorded.

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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.

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could this and other metadata-specific templates be folded into the existing templates like live.cpp.template, by adding some #if metadata blocks?

Comment thread src/core/codegen/manifest.py Outdated
raise ValueError("tracker entry missing required key 'name'")
if "table" not in raw:
raise ValueError(f"tracker '{raw['name']}': missing required key 'table'")
if "record_type" in raw:

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this seems unrelated to metadata? also a compat path for a key nobody sets, can just drop it. If kept, avoid "no longer" wording, describe the current state

Comment thread src/core/codegen/template_renderer.py Outdated
"TENSOR_IDENTIFIER_EXPR": _tensor_identifier_expr(ctx),
"HAS_TENSOR_IDENTIFIER": "1" if ctx.facade_tensor_constant else "0",
"HAS_METADATA": "1" if ctx.metadata else "0",
"METADATA": ctx.metadata or "",

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None -> "" round trip, the manifest already uses "" for unset. Lets pick one representation of "no metadata"

Comment thread src/core/codegen/templates.py Outdated
mcap_channels: tuple[str, ...] | None
replay_channels: tuple[str, ...] | None
# Metadata table, its .fbs stem and its MCAP sub-channel; metadata is None when unset.
metadata: str | None

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metadata_schema / metadata_channel still carry derived values like "x_metadata" when metadata is unset. Could the three be one optional struct so they only exist together?

.def(
"get_metadata",
[](const core::@CLASS@& self, const core::ITrackerSession& session)
{ return to_python(self.get_metadata(session)); },

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nothing makes sure the metadata table has a caster registered in _schema, so a tracker that sets metadata without hand written bindings compiles and then throws "unregistered type" on the first get_metadata() from python. Could the manifest check reject it, or codegen emit the binding?

{

//! Sample size of a metadata collection, and the largest one consumers accept. 128 KiB samples
//! failed in the CloudXR runtime's IPC; 16 KiB is the largest size in use (noitom_mocap).

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note: comments like this will get stale with no chance of detecting, lets drop the noitom_mocap / IPC history

core::HeadPoseT native;
native.is_valid = true;
native.pose = std::make_shared<core::Pose>(core::Point(1.0f, 2.0f, 3.0f), core::Quaternion(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f));
const auto metadata = core::pack_record<core::HeadPoseRecord>(&native, core::DeviceDataTimestamp(5, 5, 5));

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this writes a HeadPoseRecord that has a timestamp, so the table-without-timestamp path the new write overload exists for is not exercised

return;
}

// A complete candidate supersedes the previous verification result. Restore it only

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Are we supposed to receive the metadata only once? What is a "candidate" candidate here?

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This part seems to be against the design. The design is the metadata will be sent sparsely, like once every 30 seconds. When the tracker receives a new metadata that differs from the archived one, it's considered a breakage and it will become invalid, stops recording or piping data

{
}

void SchemaMetadataPusher::push(int64_t sample_time_local_common_clock_ns)

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should be a once in a life time push, probably don't need a clas for this. Also I don't see where the class is being instantiated


//! Sample size of a metadata collection, and the largest one consumers accept. 128 KiB samples
//! failed in the CloudXR runtime's IPC; 16 KiB is the largest size in use (noitom_mocap).
inline constexpr size_t TRACKER_METADATA_SAMPLE_SIZE = 16384;

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can this be computed from the metadata payload?

lotusl-code and others added 3 commits October 16, 2026 16:28
Codegen:
- Fold the metadata live/replay impls and replay factory into the existing
  pull templates as #if @HAS_METADATA@ blocks.
- Make `metadata` an optional manifest key with one representation of
  "unset": templates.py derives its .fbs stem and MCAP channel into an
  optional MetadataGenContext, so defaults.toml and the placeholder
  transforms are unchanged.
- Drop the record_type rejection, which is unrelated to metadata.

Live:
- SchemaMetadataReader holds its SchemaTrackerBase as a member and answers
  in one call whether the data may be published and recorded this tick.
  The live impl decides that before reading the data and passes it as
  SchemaTracker::update's `record`, so MCAP holds exactly what is
  published.
- A sample that is not a valid table throws; a sample that differs from the
  adopted one withholds the data for the rest of the session. Both name
  the collection.
- Confirmation follows the metadata collection, not the data collection.

Wire contract:
- A producer sizes its metadata collection to its table, so the constant
  becomes TRACKER_METADATA_MAX_SIZE and samples compare without their zero
  padding. The identifier check lives in the reader only.
- Remove SchemaMetadataPusher, which nothing instantiated.

Replay: the factory reads the metadata and passes it to the impl.

Tests: replace the template-text assertions with tests/cpp/core/
tracker_metadata, which generates a tracker with metadata, compiles it, and
covers recording the timestamp-less metadata table and replaying it.

Signed-off-by: Lotus Li <lotusl@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review findings beyond the PR comments:

- Nothing ran the live gating. tracker_metadata_tests now drives the
  generated live impl through a fake tensor runtime (timespec platforms):
  data waits for the producer's metadata and is recorded only when
  published; metadata that arrives before the data collection lets the
  first sample through; a restarted producer's data waits for its own
  metadata, however it is padded; a different sample withholds the data
  for the session, also when the adopted one follows it in the same tick;
  an invalid sample throws with the collection name. The live recording
  replays the same values.
- The Python helpers had no test.
- Nothing documented the manifest key, the producer contract, or that the
  metadata table needs its own schema file and Python binding:
  generated_trackers.rst gains "Trackers with metadata", linked from
  add_device.rst.

Signed-off-by: Lotus Li <lotusl@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- get_metadata() returns the first metadata received, which is not the
  first one sent when the tracker starts after the producer; say so in the
  facade and pybind docs.
- The producer contract asks for the same encoded table, since the reader
  compares bytes.
- McapTrackerViewers documents the metadata table as a root it reads.
- deviceio_trackers/AGENTS.md: `metadata`, like `header`, is an optional
  key without a default.
- SchemaMetadataReader: document collection_id; drop a write to
  m_confirmed that nothing reads once the metadata mismatches.
- tracker_metadata_tests: define the helpers only the timespec tests use
  inside their guard, so other platforms compile no unused functions; take
  the metadata topic from the generated traits; initialize every field of
  the fake runtime's collections.

Signed-off-by: Lotus Li <lotusl@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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