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<pre>public interface <span class="typeNameLabel">Metadata</span></pre>
<div class="block">Metadata about a relational expression.
<p>For particular types of metadata, a sub-class defines one of more methods
to query that metadata. Then a <a href="RelMetadataProvider.html" title="interface in org.apache.calcite.rel.metadata"><code>RelMetadataProvider</code></a> can offer those
kinds of metadata for particular sub-classes of <a href="../RelNode.html" title="interface in org.apache.calcite.rel"><code>RelNode</code></a>.
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<a href="../RelNode.html#computeSelfCost(org.apache.calcite.plan.RelOptPlanner,org.apache.calcite.rel.metadata.RelMetadataQuery)"><code>RelNode.computeSelfCost(org.apache.calcite.plan.RelOptPlanner, RelMetadataQuery)</code></a>)
acquires a <code>Metadata</code> instance by calling <a href="../RelNode.html#metadata(java.lang.Class,org.apache.calcite.rel.metadata.RelMetadataQuery)"><code>RelNode.metadata(java.lang.Class&lt;M&gt;, org.apache.calcite.rel.metadata.RelMetadataQuery)</code></a>.
<p>A <code>Metadata</code> instance already knows which particular <code>RelNode</code>
it is describing, so the methods do not pass in the <code>RelNode</code>. In fact,
quite a few metadata methods have no extra parameters. For instance, you can
get the row-count as follows:</p>
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RelNode rel;
double rowCount = rel.metadata(RowCount.class).rowCount();
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