From 19394d7b471ac0e3adc9f5698439202e4b1baa60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Crichton <alex@alexcrichton.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:56:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Preserve `package.metadata` when packaging

Now that we use Serde this is actually trivial to implement!

Closes #4142
---
 src/cargo/util/toml.rs | 5 ++---
 tests/package.rs       | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cargo/util/toml.rs b/src/cargo/util/toml.rs
index 57fe72abb5a..34ab86a3143 100644
--- a/src/cargo/util/toml.rs
+++ b/src/cargo/util/toml.rs
@@ -109,9 +109,7 @@ pub fn to_manifest(contents: &str,
     let manifest: TomlManifest = serde_ignored::deserialize(root, |path| {
         let mut key = String::new();
         stringify(&mut key, &path);
-        if !key.starts_with("package.metadata") {
-            unused.insert(key);
-        }
+        unused.insert(key);
     })?;
 
     let manifest = Rc::new(manifest);
@@ -459,6 +457,7 @@ pub struct TomlProject {
     #[serde(rename = "license-file")]
     license_file: Option<String>,
     repository: Option<String>,
+    metadata: Option<toml::Value>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Deserialize, Serialize)]
diff --git a/tests/package.rs b/tests/package.rs
index 1777235e1cf..d54fdc2375a 100644
--- a/tests/package.rs
+++ b/tests/package.rs
@@ -604,6 +604,9 @@ fn generated_manifest() {
             license = "MIT"
             description = "foo"
 
+            [project.metadata]
+            foo = 'bar'
+
             [workspace]
 
             [dependencies]
@@ -652,6 +655,9 @@ authors = []
 exclude = ["*.txt"]
 description = "foo"
 license = "MIT"
+
+[package.metadata]
+foo = "bar"
 [dependencies.bar]
 version = "0.1"
 "#));