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Currently metadata objects for all xtgeo objects are kept in the xtgeo.metadata.metadata
module. This module needs access to all the major xtgeo types to do instance checking which complicates the dependency chain.
For example, a RegularSurface
needs the MetaDataRegularSurface
object from xtgeo.metadata.metadata
to store in RegularSurface._metadata
. Thus the dependency chain looks like this
RegularSurface <- xtgeo.metadata.metadata <- Cube, Grid, Well, etc... <- RegularSurface
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The MetaData
objects in xtgeo.metadata
should be split either into their own submodules within the metadata package, or parceled out to the objects they represent respectively.
Not clear if the metadata package is relied upon elsewhere, but I don't think it is.