[RFC PATCH v1 23/23] treewide: Use `Request::metadata2()`

Barnabás Pőcze barnabas.pocze at ideasonboard.com
Fri Jun 6 18:41:56 CEST 2025


Apart from a few exceptions, make everything use the new metadata list
of a request to access metadata items. After this change the only
thing remaining is to remove the exceptional uses, remove `Request::metadata()`
altogether, and finally rename `Request::metadata2()`.

Signed-off-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze at ideasonboard.com>
---
 src/android/camera_device.cpp              | 4 ++--
 src/apps/cam/file_sink.cpp                 | 4 ++--
 src/apps/cam/file_sink.h                   | 4 ++--
 src/apps/common/dng_writer.cpp             | 2 +-
 src/apps/common/dng_writer.h               | 4 ++--
 src/apps/qcam/main_window.cpp              | 4 ++--
 src/apps/qcam/main_window.h                | 4 ++--
 src/gstreamer/gstlibcamera-controls.cpp.in | 4 ++--
 src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp          | 2 +-
 src/libcamera/pipeline/ipu3/ipu3.cpp       | 2 +-
 10 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/android/camera_device.cpp b/src/android/camera_device.cpp
index 80ff248c2..b8c6ddf84 100644
--- a/src/android/camera_device.cpp
+++ b/src/android/camera_device.cpp
@@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ void CameraDevice::requestComplete(Request *request)
 	 * \todo The shutter event notification should be sent to the framework
 	 * as soon as possible, earlier than request completion time.
 	 */
-	uint64_t sensorTimestamp = static_cast<uint64_t>(request->metadata()
+	uint64_t sensorTimestamp = static_cast<uint64_t>(request->metadata2()
 								 .get(controls::SensorTimestamp)
 								 .value_or(0));
 	notifyShutter(descriptor->frameNumber_, sensorTimestamp);
@@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ void CameraDevice::notifyError(uint32_t frameNumber, camera3_stream_t *stream,
 std::unique_ptr<CameraMetadata>
 CameraDevice::getResultMetadata(const Camera3RequestDescriptor &descriptor) const
 {
-	const ControlList &metadata = descriptor.request_->metadata();
+	const MetadataList &metadata = descriptor.request_->metadata2();
 	const CameraMetadata &settings = descriptor.settings_;
 	camera_metadata_ro_entry_t entry;
 	bool found;
diff --git a/src/apps/cam/file_sink.cpp b/src/apps/cam/file_sink.cpp
index 65794a2f9..1cc1b2b12 100644
--- a/src/apps/cam/file_sink.cpp
+++ b/src/apps/cam/file_sink.cpp
@@ -96,13 +96,13 @@ void FileSink::mapBuffer(FrameBuffer *buffer)
 bool FileSink::processRequest(Request *request)
 {
 	for (auto [stream, buffer] : request->buffers())
-		writeBuffer(stream, buffer, request->metadata());
+		writeBuffer(stream, buffer, request->metadata2());
 
 	return true;
 }
 
 void FileSink::writeBuffer(const Stream *stream, FrameBuffer *buffer,
-			   [[maybe_unused]] const ControlList &metadata)
+			   [[maybe_unused]] const MetadataList &metadata)
 {
 	std::string filename = pattern_;
 	size_t pos;
diff --git a/src/apps/cam/file_sink.h b/src/apps/cam/file_sink.h
index 26cd61b36..1f973f2e6 100644
--- a/src/apps/cam/file_sink.h
+++ b/src/apps/cam/file_sink.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #include <memory>
 #include <string>
 
-#include <libcamera/controls.h>
+#include <libcamera/metadata_list.h>
 #include <libcamera/stream.h>
 
 #include "frame_sink.h"
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ private:
 
 	void writeBuffer(const libcamera::Stream *stream,
 			 libcamera::FrameBuffer *buffer,
-			 const libcamera::ControlList &metadata);
+			 const libcamera::MetadataList &metadata);
 
 #ifdef HAVE_TIFF
 	const libcamera::Camera *camera_;
diff --git a/src/apps/common/dng_writer.cpp b/src/apps/common/dng_writer.cpp
index ac4619511..d8884548c 100644
--- a/src/apps/common/dng_writer.cpp
+++ b/src/apps/common/dng_writer.cpp
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ const std::map<PixelFormat, FormatInfo> formatInfo = {
 
 int DNGWriter::write(const char *filename, const Camera *camera,
 		     const StreamConfiguration &config,
-		     const ControlList &metadata,
+		     const MetadataList &metadata,
 		     [[maybe_unused]] const FrameBuffer *buffer,
 		     const void *data)
 {
diff --git a/src/apps/common/dng_writer.h b/src/apps/common/dng_writer.h
index aaa8a852b..741f78a75 100644
--- a/src/apps/common/dng_writer.h
+++ b/src/apps/common/dng_writer.h
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 #ifdef HAVE_TIFF
 
 #include <libcamera/camera.h>
-#include <libcamera/controls.h>
 #include <libcamera/framebuffer.h>
+#include <libcamera/metadata_list.h>
 #include <libcamera/stream.h>
 
 class DNGWriter
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class DNGWriter
 public:
 	static int write(const char *filename, const libcamera::Camera *camera,
 			 const libcamera::StreamConfiguration &config,
-			 const libcamera::ControlList &metadata,
+			 const libcamera::MetadataList &metadata,
 			 const libcamera::FrameBuffer *buffer, const void *data);
 };
 
diff --git a/src/apps/qcam/main_window.cpp b/src/apps/qcam/main_window.cpp
index 7e3f3da60..46dfbb198 100644
--- a/src/apps/qcam/main_window.cpp
+++ b/src/apps/qcam/main_window.cpp
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ void MainWindow::captureRaw()
 }
 
 void MainWindow::processRaw(FrameBuffer *buffer,
-			    [[maybe_unused]] const ControlList &metadata)
+			    [[maybe_unused]] const MetadataList &metadata)
 {
 #ifdef HAVE_TIFF
 	QString defaultPath = QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::PicturesLocation);
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ void MainWindow::processCapture()
 		processViewfinder(request->buffers().at(vfStream_));
 
 	if (request->buffers().count(rawStream_))
-		processRaw(request->buffers().at(rawStream_), request->metadata());
+		processRaw(request->buffers().at(rawStream_), request->metadata2());
 
 	request->reuse();
 	QMutexLocker locker(&mutex_);
diff --git a/src/apps/qcam/main_window.h b/src/apps/qcam/main_window.h
index 81fcf915a..eb1e4ce58 100644
--- a/src/apps/qcam/main_window.h
+++ b/src/apps/qcam/main_window.h
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
 
 #include <libcamera/camera.h>
 #include <libcamera/camera_manager.h>
-#include <libcamera/controls.h>
 #include <libcamera/framebuffer.h>
 #include <libcamera/framebuffer_allocator.h>
+#include <libcamera/metadata_list.h>
 #include <libcamera/request.h>
 #include <libcamera/stream.h>
 
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ private Q_SLOTS:
 	void saveImageAs();
 	void captureRaw();
 	void processRaw(libcamera::FrameBuffer *buffer,
-			const libcamera::ControlList &metadata);
+			const libcamera::MetadataList &metadata);
 
 	void renderComplete(libcamera::FrameBuffer *buffer);
 
diff --git a/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamera-controls.cpp.in b/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamera-controls.cpp.in
index 89c530da0..f5bd2885c 100644
--- a/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamera-controls.cpp.in
+++ b/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamera-controls.cpp.in
@@ -322,6 +322,6 @@ void GstCameraControls::applyControls(std::unique_ptr<libcamera::Request> &reque
 
 void GstCameraControls::readMetadata(libcamera::Request *request)
 {
-	controls_acc_.merge(request->metadata(),
-			    ControlList::MergePolicy::OverwriteExisting);
+	for (const auto &[k, v] : request->metadata2())
+		controls_acc_.set(k, ControlValue(v));
 }
diff --git a/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp b/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
index b34f08977..5b570e86f 100644
--- a/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
+++ b/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ GstLibcameraSrcState::requestCompleted(Request *request)
 	}
 
 	if (GST_ELEMENT_CLOCK(src_)) {
-		int64_t timestamp = request->metadata().get(controls::SensorTimestamp).value_or(0);
+		int64_t timestamp = request->metadata2().get(controls::SensorTimestamp).value_or(0);
 
 		GstClockTime gst_base_time = GST_ELEMENT(src_)->base_time;
 		GstClockTime gst_now = gst_clock_get_time(GST_ELEMENT_CLOCK(src_));
diff --git a/src/libcamera/pipeline/ipu3/ipu3.cpp b/src/libcamera/pipeline/ipu3/ipu3.cpp
index 0f59d0727..5bc8b5ed8 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/pipeline/ipu3/ipu3.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/pipeline/ipu3/ipu3.cpp
@@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ void IPU3CameraData::statBufferReady(FrameBuffer *buffer)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	ipa_->processStats(info->id, request->metadata().get(controls::SensorTimestamp).value_or(0),
+	ipa_->processStats(info->id, request->metadata2().get(controls::SensorTimestamp).value_or(0),
 			   info->statBuffer->cookie(), info->effectiveSensorControls);
 }
 
-- 
2.49.0



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