Is there a way to get artifact metadata from the C# code?

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Got this question from a user per email. Though I would respond here so more could benefit from it.

Is there a way to get artifact metadata from the C# code?

Mender Artifacts are basically tar archives, which can be unpacked,

$ tar xvf test.mender 
version
manifest
header.tar
data/0000.tar

The various files inside the Mender Artifact contain the metadata. You can find the full description of the Mender Artifact structure here

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Very interesting read, thank you for this.
Now i understand technically how the mender-client was able to get the state scripts before installing the artifact itself