See base class for details.

def save_metadata(self, data_dir, feature_name=None):
    """See base class for details."""
    filepath = _get_metadata_filepath(data_dir, feature_name)
    with tf.io.gfile.GFile(filepath, 'w') as f:
      json.dump({
          'shape': [-1 if d is None else d for d in self._shape],
          'encoding_format': self._encoding_format,
      }, f, sort_keys=True)