handle_output_metadata

qcengine.util.handle_output_metadata(output_data, metadata, raise_error=False, return_dict=True)

Fuses general metadata and output together.

Parameters:

• output_data (Union[Dict[str, Any], AtomicResult, OptimizationResult, FailedOperation]) – The original output object to be fused with metadata

• metadata (Dict[str, Any]) – Metadata produced by the compute_wrapper context manager

• raise_error (bool) – Raise an exception if errors exist (True) or return FailedOperation (False)

• return_dict (bool) – Return dictionary or object representation of data

Returns:

result – Output type depends on return_dict or a dict if an error was generated in model construction

Return type:

AtomicResult, OptimizationResult, FailedOperation, or dict representation of any one.