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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def getMetadataId(self, metadata):
 """ Returns the id of a metadata """

        return str(datamodel.VariantSetMetadataCompoundId(
            self.getCompoundId(), 'metadata:' + metadata.key))