I wanted to put a note here that I can't get all of the tests to pass on my new machine running 10.7. It fails during the XSLTransform - I confirmed the xsl file exists in the same location in the ArcGIS install folder, and non FGDB tests work correctly. I can't export using XSLTransform outside of arcpy_metadata either, so this may be a wontfix even if it's occurring on other people's machines, but wanted to note it here in case it's happening to anyone else.

I was not able to use arcpy.metadata object to access the limitation property - it came out empty. I checked the XML structure and cannot see any reason why it wouldn't work.

CADASTRAL.PLSS_LN.txt

I have a simple shapefile I am trying to load into the MetadataEditor:

shp = "<C:/<...>/feature.shp"
metadata = md.MetadataEditor(shp)

When I run this, I get the following error:

TypeError: unhashable type: 'dict'

Any suggestions as to how to resolve this?

We can do a two step conversion to using logging - first, we can add a logging configuration using the logging module and convert logwrite and logwarning to use the logger, then we can actually comb the code for calls and remove those old loggers.

Hi Nick,
I noticed there was a bug with the logger. I fixed it, can you upload latest version to pypi?

Thanks

Thomas

It seems that the tags and place keywords properties overwrite each other, depending on which one is updated first. For example,

metadata = md.MetadataEditor(item)
metadata.place_keywords = ["Colorado","Arizona"]  #Place Keywords
metadata.tags = ['Lands','Veg1000','Mapping','Wetlands']  #Tags #overwrites place keywords
metadata.finish()

metadata = md.MetadataEditor(item)
metadata.tags = ['Lands','Veg1000','Mapping','Wetlands']  #Tags #overwrites place keywords
metadata.place_keywords = ["Colorado","Arizona"]  #Place Keywords #overwrites tags
metadata.finish()

Hi,
I wonder if I can setup the arcpy_metadata on my windows 7 machine as where ArcGIS 10.2.2 and python 2.7 32-bit installed ?
Please advise,

Thanks,
Sami

I want read n update existing metadata replacing some value from external csv file based on fc name as common id between Featureclasses and csv file(3 columns). but whenever I use dict in my code. it is throwing error

import arcpy_metadata as md
import datetime
import arcpy
import os

workspace ='C:\xxx\AssetID_to_Shapefile_Script_Output_V1'

csvpath=r"C:\xxx\test_metadata\test\meta_batch14.csv"


d = {}
with open(csvpath) as f:
    for line in f:
        (key, AccesWidth,drwgNo) = line.split(',')
        d[(key)] = AccesWidth  #EaseWidth
print d




walk = arcpy.da.Walk(workspace, datatype="FeatureClass")
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in walk:
    for filename in filenames:
        fc=(os.path.join(dirpath, filename))

        
        metadata = md.MetadataEditor(fc)
        print (fun_csvtodict(csvpath))
        fcname=filename[:-4]

        print fcname+'\n' +'\t'+ metadata.abstract



metadata.finish()  
print "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Finished~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"

NameError: name 'metadata' is not defined

Getting a ImportError: No module named 'version' error when running the tests.

May need to change arcpy_metadata__init__.py

from arcpy_metadata.version import author
from arcpy_metadata.version import version

Hey - One last question: Is there a way to add spatial reference or bounding box extent (coords) parameters to the xml?

Arcpy is actually only needed to extract metadata from GDB items. Everything else can be done without this module since metadata are access directly using the XML file.
If metadata for a feature class are edited, arcpy can be loaded on demand using importlib.
This way, users without an arcpy install can still make use of the core functionalities of this module.

from importlib import import_module
arcpy = import_module('arcpy')

Greetings. When I run setup.py in ArcGIS Pro using the command prompt, I get the following error. Any thoughts?
Thank you,
Lara

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 3, in
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'arcpy_metadata'

test_layer_file fails with the following traceback on Python 2.7:

Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\nrsantos\Code\arcpy_metadata\tests\test_metadata_editor.py", line 103, in test_layer_file
self._run_example(os.path.join(test_data_folder, r"layer.lyr"))
File "C:\Users\nrsantos\Code\arcpy_metadata\tests\test_metadata_editor.py", line 41, in _run_example
metadata = md.MetadataEditor(feature_class) # also has a feature_layer parameter if you're working with one, but edits get saved back to the source feature class
File "C:\Users\nrsantos\Code\arcpy_metadata\arcpy_metadata\metadata_editor.py", line 74, in init
self.data_type = desc.dataElement.dataType
AttributeError: DescribeData: Method dataElement does not exist

Hi, at first I would like to thanks for this very usefull tool in everyday issues. Unfortunately there are problems when using this tool for migrate, or multiple set of metadata when strings with metadata information contains symbols in different coding (for example ANSI1250 and symbols like "č", "ž", "é". etc.

Is there any solution for this problem?

Thank you very much!

Hi there and thank you for your work,

I am using arcpy_metadata to mainly fill the layers' abstract section, this is the part of my code that does the work

if ext == "shp":
    
    metadata = md.MetadataEditor(metadata_file = shp + ".xml")
    title = ""
    metadata.title = title

    if title == old_shp_name:
        metadata.title = shp

    metadata.abstract = MD_ABS
    metadata.save()

NB: arcpy_metadata has been imported as md and MD_ABS is the abstract parameter I fill beforehand

This works most of the time, but sometimes I get the abstract written with the same font as the subtitle Abstract in ArcCatalog as you can see below (French version)

while it should be displayed like this

I don't understand why at some point it occurs, but when it does looks like I have to reboot to correct this until it comes back again !

Problem (beside the font) : when I try to update the metadata directly from ArcCatalog it crashes every time

Should I add something in my code to prevent the font from changing ?
Any thoughts are very welcome

Thank you again

Max

Edit : I add 2 xml, one good and one evil, to me I don't see any difference but it might help

abstract_font_issue.zip

rewrite test module to do some actual testing.

I want to put hyperlink on some text in abstract section. I tried choosing html tags for hyperlink but didnt work. pls show pointers how can I achieve

example:
Abstract: This Layer has bee downloaded from here

Add locals metadata element to allow storing translated title and abstract

I keep on getting the following error:
AttributeError: module 'arcpy' has no attribute 'XSLTransform_conversion'

any ideas?

Hi,

During running the following simple test below, I ran into the following errors:

import arcpy_metadata as md
import datetime
import unittest
import os
import shutil
import arcpy
import gc

feaure_class =r"C:\Temp\arcpy_metadata-master\tests\test_data_temp_folder\test.gdb\root_poly"
metadata = md.MetadataEditor(feaure_class)
metadata.title.set("The metadata title!")

generated_time = "This layer was generated on {0:s}".format(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p"))

metadata.purpose.set = ("Layer represents locations of the rare Snipe.")

metadata.abstract.append("generated by ___ software")
metadata.abstract.append(generated_time)
metadata.tags.add(["foo", "bar", "baz"])

metadata.finish() # save the metadata back to the original source feature class and cleanup
gc.collect()

At:
metadata.title.set(..)
metadata.purpose.set (..)

Error encountered:
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'set'

also for:
metadata.abstract.append(..)

Error encountered:
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'append'

Also for:
metadata.tags.add([..])

Error encountered:
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'add'

I'm using:
python 2.7.5
ArcGIS 10.2.2

Please advise,
Thanks,

Allow to also point directly to an XML file, not just shp or other files

Instead of using Java-style getter and setter methods use Python's builtin getter/setter support through the @Property decorator.

Afterwards, .get() and .set() methods will have to be marked as deprecated

I am finding that when I use MetadataEditor it changes the exit codes emitted by my scripts.

For example when this python script:

#exittest-metadata.py
import arcpy_metadata as md;

if sys.argv[1] == "true":
    print("Editing  metadata")
    table = "sde\\connection.sde\\OWNER.TABLE"
    editor = md.MetadataEditor(table)
    editor.finish()
else:
    print("Skipping metadata")

sys.exit(0)

is called by this batch file:

python exittest-metadata.py false
@echo Returns %ERRORLEVEL%

python exittest-metadata.py true
@echo Returns %ERRORLEVEL%

they produce this output:

>python exittest-metadata.py false
Skipping metadata
Returns 0

>python exittest-metadata.py true
Editing metadata
Exporting metadata to temporary file C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp\scratch\OWNER.TABLE.xml
Saving metadata
cleaning up from metadata operation
Returns -2146234327    

As you can see on the second run a non-zero exit code is emitted despite calling sys.exit(0).

Is this a known gotcha?
Is there a workaround I should be using?

Hey Nick,

would you feel comfortable if I merge my current pull request into your repo?
Latest changes are not backwards compatible and the way you interact with the API a little bit different, but way easier.

It will also be much easier to add new items if needed.

I updated the documentation on our current fork
https://github.com/wri/arcpy_metadata

Thomas

A quick glance makes it look like this code base should be ready for Python 3, but with ArcGIS Pro running Python 3.4 it's probably time to verify. I have a project that will need this library running in ArcGIS Pro, so I'll give it a test and run the test suite (such as it is) to check it.

Using ArcMap version 10.3.0.4322
Windows 7 Enterprise version 6.1.7601 SP1 Build 7601

md.version

'0.2.5'

I am unable to pull the values from the metadata items through the library functions. I have tried on .shp files as well as feature classes located in .gdbs. Unsure of how to attach the data I'm using, but if you let me know how I would be happy to include it with this issue. Below is from my ArcMap Python window

import arcpy_metadata as md
data = md.MetadataEditor(r'C:\Temp\Example.shp')
Exporting metadata to temporary file c:\users\gpopulis\appdata\local\temp\arcd9b3\tmpmfsqivarcpy_metadata\pisces0metadata
data.items
[<arcpy_metadata.MetadataAbstract object at 0x349DC250>, <arcpy_metadata.MetadataPurpose object at 0x349DC270>, <arcpy_metadata.MetadataTags object at 0x349DC2F0>, <arcpy_metadata.MetadataTitle object at 0x349DC490>]
for item in data.items:
... print item.name, item.value
...
abstract
purpose
tags
title

Seems to be an ESRI bug with the XML export tool. Opened a case at myESRI

I have a script that uses arcpy_metadata and writes the title, tags, purpose (summary) and description (abstract) to a text file. In general, it works great, but it looks like some XML code is being written along with the text. It's not causing any errors, only it interferes with the readability of the text file content.
Here's a zip that has the script I created and the text file:
Metadata2Txt.zip

Thanks,
Jared

Test case fails for file_identifier element with fGDB

I would like to see an enhancement that would allow for suppression of the messages to the console for use of this module in a scripting environment. I have been able to control it by redirecting sys.stdout, but it would be a nice feature to have added to the MetadataEditor module as a flag.

I noticed in the code that all of the drop down types have been commented out. And when trying these out the coded values appear within the XML tag, which is incorrect and not read properly. Are there plans to fix this?

I can help if I got some help on how the process of changing the tags works in the module.