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<section id="metadata-api">
<span id="id1"></span><h1>Metadata API<a class="headerlink" href="#metadata-api" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>Metadata is additional information or generic data that can be attached to a
task, a thread, a process, etc. Metadata has a type, name, and value.
The value encoding depends on the metadata type. The encoding may contain
either string data or a number of integer or floating point values.</p>
<p>To create metadata, use the following primitives:</p>
<div class="highlight-cpp notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">__itt_metadata_add</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_domain</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">domain</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_id</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">id</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_string_handle</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_metadata_type</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">type</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">size_t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">count</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">__itt_metadata_str_addA</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_domain</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">domain</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_id</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">id</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_string_handle</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">char</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">size_t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">length</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">__itt_metadata_str_addW</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_domain</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">domain</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_id</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">id</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_string_handle</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">wchar_t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">size_t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">length</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">__itt_metadata_add_with_scope</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_domain</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">domain</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_scope</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">scope</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_string_handle</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_metadata_type</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">type</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">size_t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">count</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">__itt_metadata_str_add_with_scopeA</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_domain</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">domain</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_scope</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">scope</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_string_handle</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">char</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">size_t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">length</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">__itt_metadata_str_add_with_scopeW</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_domain</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">domain</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_scope</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">scope</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">__itt_string_handle</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">wchar_t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">size_t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">length</span><span class="p">);</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The following table defines the parameters used in the Metadata API primitives.</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Type</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Parameter</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Description</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>[in]</p></td>
<td><div class="highlight-cpp notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">__itt_domain</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">domain</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>Metadata domain</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>[in]</p></td>
<td><div class="highlight-cpp notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">__itt_scope</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">scope</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>Metadata scope: task, thread, process, and global.
If a scope is undefined, metadata belongs to the
last task in the thread.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>[in]</p></td>
<td><div class="highlight-cpp notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">__itt_string_handle</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">name</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>Metadata name</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>[in]</p></td>
<td><div class="highlight-cpp notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">__itt_metadata_type</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">type</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>Metadata type; used only for numeric metadata</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>[in]</p></td>
<td><div class="highlight-cpp notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kt">size_t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">count</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>Number of numeric metadata items
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">[in]</span> <span class="pre">size_t</span></code> length</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>[in]</p></td>
<td><div class="highlight-cpp notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kt">size_t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">length</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>Number of symbols a metadata string</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>[in]</p></td>
<td><div class="highlight-cpp notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">data</span>
<span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">char</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">data</span>
<span class="k">const</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">wchar_t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">data</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>Actual metadata (array of numerics or string)</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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