From fe6cecde0017ccbc82fd0a35b8aa47c0b23e358b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christophe Haen <christophe.haen@cern.ch>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 10:16:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: wrong default type for metadata container

---
 src/DIRAC/DataManagementSystem/Client/ConsistencyInspector.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/DIRAC/DataManagementSystem/Client/ConsistencyInspector.py b/src/DIRAC/DataManagementSystem/Client/ConsistencyInspector.py
index 1865c737dd3..44d93ce8f72 100644
--- a/src/DIRAC/DataManagementSystem/Client/ConsistencyInspector.py
+++ b/src/DIRAC/DataManagementSystem/Client/ConsistencyInspector.py
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ def _getCatalogReplicas(self, lfns):
 
     def _getCatalogMetadata(self, lfns):
         """Obtain the file metadata from the catalog while checking they exist"""
-        allMetadata = []
+        allMetadata = {}
         missingCatalogFiles = []
         zeroSizeFiles = []