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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 metadata(self):
 """Access process configuarion values as attributes. """

        from ambry.metadata.schema import Top  # cross-module import
        top = Top()
        top.build_from_db(self.dataset)
        return top