Fix passing of tub metadata

donkeycar/parts/datastore_v2.py

@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 import mmap
 import os
 import time
+import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 NEWLINE = '\n'
 NEWLINE_STRIP = '\r\n'
@@ -317,8 +320,13 @@ def _add_catalog(self):
 
     def _read_metadata(self, metadata=[]):
         self.metadata = dict()
-        for (key, value) in metadata:
-            self.metadata[key] = value
+        for kv in metadata:
+            kvs = kv.split(":")
+            if len(kvs) == 2:
+                self.metadata[kvs[0]] = kvs[1]
+            else:
+                logger.error(f'Metadata item needs to be a key value pair of '
+                             f'format key:value, ignore entry {kv}')
 
     def _read_contents(self):
         self.seekeable.seek_line_start(1)

donkeycar/templates/complete.py

@@ -811,6 +811,7 @@ def run(self, mode, recording):
     # do we want to store new records into own dir or append to existing
     tub_path = TubHandler(path=cfg.DATA_PATH).create_tub_path() if \
         cfg.AUTO_CREATE_NEW_TUB else cfg.DATA_PATH
+    meta += getattr(cfg, 'METADATA', [])
     tub_writer = TubWriter(tub_path, inputs=inputs, types=types, metadata=meta)
     V.add(tub_writer, inputs=inputs, outputs=["tub/num_records"], run_condition='recording')
 

setup.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def package_files(directory, strip_leading):
     long_description = fh.read()
 
 setup(name='donkeycar',
-      version="4.3.17",
+      version="4.3.18",
       long_description=long_description,
       description='Self driving library for python.',
       url='https://github.com/autorope/donkeycar',