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Metadata Overview

metadata provides configuration options that control model behavior and organization.

Overview

Section titled “Overview”

The metadata section is defined within a model and supports configuration options:

example.dg
model example {
  metadata {
    count: 10
    tags: {
      "service": "user",
      "team": "backend"
    }
  }


  fields {
    // field definitions
  }


  gens {
    // generator implementations
  }
}

Count

Section titled “Count”

Sets a default number of records that will be generated when no explicit count is provided.

Basic Usage

Section titled “Basic Usage”
metadata {
  count: 5
}

Command Behavior

Section titled “Command Behavior”

Tags

Section titled “Tags”

Allows you to label models with string key-value pairs, which can be used to filter the models to generate the data for.

Basic Usage

Section titled “Basic Usage”
metadata {
  tags: {
    "service": "delivery",
    "team": "backend",
    "environment": "production"
  }
}

Filtering Rules

Section titled “Filtering Rules”