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Makes both readers handle database metadata the same way. Stacked on #467; review only the commits in this PR.

  • Pure Python reader. It passed every decoded key to Metadata with no checks. It now ignores unknown keys, which a minor version of the format can add, and raises InvalidDatabaseError for a missing key, a value of the wrong type or out of range, an ip_version other than 4 or 6, a major format version other than 2, a build_epoch of 0, or metadata that does not decode, such as a string that is not UTF-8. These match libmaxminddb. It still accepts an empty search tree (node_count 0).
  • C extension. Reader.metadata() decoded the metadata map again and raised on an unknown key. It now passes only the nine known fields to Metadata. The numbers come from the metadata that libmaxminddb checked when it opened the database. database_type, description and languages come from the decoded map, because libmaxminddb's copies of these strings end at the first NUL.
  • C Metadata. It gains the node_byte_size and search_tree_size properties that the pure Python Metadata and the type hints already have.

The new checks can reject a database that the pure Python reader opened before. libmaxminddb already rejected those databases. The reader cannot check the width of an integer, because the decoder does not report it. ENG-5541 tracks the optional languages and description keys, which both libmaxminddb and this reader require although the spec does not.

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    • Added read-only metadata values for node size and total search tree size.
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    • Improved handling of unknown, repeated, and invalid database metadata, with clearer errors for invalid databases.
    • Fixed issues involving large unsigned values, invalid reader use, malformed metadata keys, and invalid text.
    • Improved reliability during memory cleanup and concurrent use, including iterator advancement and free-threaded Python.
    • Updated pure Python reader reinitialization and close behavior.

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The readers handle repeated metadata keys by retaining the first value. The pure-Python reader validates required metadata fields and values. The C extension reads required metadata strings and exposes node_byte_size and search_tree_size.

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Metadata Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Metadata map decoding
maxminddb/decoder.py, tests/decoder_test.py
The decoder supports first-value handling for metadata keys and converts malformed map data into InvalidDatabaseError. A test covers an unhashable map key.
Pure-Python metadata validation
maxminddb/reader.py, tests/reader_test.py
The reader validates required metadata fields, types, and ranges, and translates metadata decoding errors into InvalidDatabaseError. Tests cover unknown fields, embedded NULs, duplicate keys, malformed metadata, and reader closure during metadata construction.
C extension metadata and size properties
extension/maxminddb.c, maxminddb/extension.pyi, tests/reader_test.py, HISTORY.rst
The C extension reads required metadata strings and adds node_byte_size and search_tree_size. The type declarations, tests, and changelog record the properties and metadata handling.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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The change makes metadata validation consistent between the pure-Python reader and the C extension, and repeated metadata keys now resolve to the first value in both. No merge-blocking risk is evident from the supplied context.

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database_type = PyDict_GetItemString(map, "database_type");
description = PyDict_GetItemString(map, "description");
languages = PyDict_GetItemString(map, "languages");

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Reject duplicate known metadata keys before selecting string fields.

If a metadata map contains two database_type entries, libmaxminddb validates the first entry when it opens the database. from_map keeps the last entry, so these lookups can return a different value. For example, a valid first string followed by an integer makes metadata().database_type an integer even though the database opened successfully. Reject duplicate known keys during metadata decoding, or select the same entry that libmaxminddb validated. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Fixed in e456fa7, by using the entry that libmaxminddb checked. Reader_metadata now decodes the top-level metadata map with from_metadata_map, which keeps the first value of a repeated key, as libmaxminddb does. libmaxminddb checks the types of those first entries at open (database_type a string, languages an array of strings, description a map of strings to strings), so metadata() can no longer return a value of the wrong type. The pure Python reader also keeps the first value now (Decoder.decode_metadata), so the two readers agree.

Record maps are unchanged: both readers still keep the last value there, and from_map stays as it was, so lookup speed does not change. A shared test repeats node_count, ip_version, record_size and database_type, and checks that both readers use the first value.

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The reader passed every decoded metadata key to Metadata, with no check.
An unknown key or a missing key raised a bare TypeError. The spec says
that a new key is a minor version change, so a reader must accept keys
that it does not know. A value of the wrong type passed, so Metadata
held values that did not match its annotations. For example, a string
node_count failed later with TypeError, and a string languages value
opened with no error. libmaxminddb rejects a missing key or a wrong type
with InvalidDatabaseError.

Pass only the known keys to Metadata, after a check that each one is
present and has the expected type. This also removes the annotated local
that widened the unchecked metadata to dict[str, Any], and its comment,
which said that the spec fixes the metadata keys.

Also check that each integer is in the range that libmaxminddb accepts,
reject a key that is not a string at any depth, as the C extension
does, and raise InvalidDatabaseError for a metadata string that is not
UTF-8. For a repeated key, keep the first value, as libmaxminddb does,
because libmaxminddb walks the search tree with it. The new
Decoder.decode_metadata does this for the top-level map only, so
lookups decode maps as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The spec says that a new metadata key is a minor version change, so a
reader must accept keys that it does not know. Reader.metadata() decoded
the whole metadata map again and passed every key to the Metadata
constructor, which accepts only the nine known keys. A database with an
unknown key made metadata() raise TypeError. Before the segmentation
fault fix, it crashed the process.

Pass only the nine known fields to Metadata. Take the numbers from the
metadata that libmaxminddb parsed and checked when it opened the
database, which are the values that libmaxminddb uses for lookups. Take
database_type, description and languages from the decoded metadata map.
libmaxminddb stores its copies of these strings as C strings, which end
at the first NUL, so they would truncate a value and merge description
keys that differ only after a NUL. Invalid UTF-8 in a metadata string
still raises InvalidDatabaseError.

For a repeated key, libmaxminddb checked and used the first entry, so
the decoded map keeps the first entry too, as in the pure Python
reader. Create the Metadata after the read lock is released, because
creating it can run Python code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
open_database() declares the pure Python Reader as its return type,
even when it returns the extension Reader. Type checkers therefore
accepted metadata().node_byte_size and metadata().search_tree_size, but
the extension Metadata did not have them. In MODE_AUTO with the
extension, the code raised AttributeError.

Add both properties to the C type and to the stub.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A record map with a key that cannot be hashed, such as a list, made
Decoder.decode raise a bare TypeError, so a pure Python get() raised
TypeError where the C extension raises InvalidDatabaseError.

decode() already converts IndexError and struct.error. Convert TypeError
there too, so both paths raise InvalidDatabaseError. The extra clause
costs nothing on a successful lookup. The metadata decode now needs to
convert only UnicodeDecodeError, which lookups keep as it is.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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