Even better we could have the backend not expect two separate external metadata and metadata dictionaries but one metadata dictionary with this field.
Excellent, that's exactly what I was thinking of! Make externality an optional extra of a metadata fields. We should probably do this in a separate PR - it should be pretty straightforward!
Excellent, that's exactly what I was thinking of! Make externality an optional extra of a metadata fields. We should probably do this in a separate PR - it should be pretty straightforward!
Originally posted by @corneliusroemer in https://github.com/loculus-project/loculus/issues/3232#issuecomment-2485758447