# Gimp.ProcedureConfig.prototype.save_metadata

    function save_metadata(exported_image: Gimp.Image, file: Gio.File): void {
        // Gjs wrapper for gimp_procedure_config_save_metadata()
    }

*Note: There is normally no need to call this function because it's already called by [class@ExportProcedure] after the `run()` callback.*

*Only use this function if the [class@Metadata] passed as argument of a [class@ExportProcedure]'s run() method needs to be written at a specific point of the export, other than its end.*

This function syncs back config's export properties to the metadata's [flags@MetadataSaveFlags] and writes the metadata to file.

The metadata is only ever written once. If this function has been called explicitly, it will do nothing when called a second time at the end of the `run()` callback.

Since 3.0

exported_image

  the image that was actually exported

file

  the file exported_image was written to