def get_metadata(self, engine, noisy=False, force=False, do_reflection=True):
        db_key, ipydb_engine = get_metadata_engine(engine)
        create_schema(ipydb_engine)
        db = self.databases[db_key]
        if db.reflecting:
            log.debug('Is already reflecting')
            # we're already busy
            return db
        if not do_reflection:
            return db
        if force:
            log.debug('was foreced to re-reflect')
            # return sqlite data, re-reflect
            db = self.read_expunge(ipydb_engine)
            self.databases[db_key] = db
            if noisy:
                print("ipydb is fetching database metadata")
            self.spawn_reflection_thread(db_key, db, engine.url)
            return db
        if db.age > MAX_CACHE_AGE:
            log.debug('Cache expired age:%s reading from sqlite', db.age)
            # read from sqlite, should be fast enough to do synchronously
            db = self.read_expunge(ipydb_engine)
            self.databases[db_key] = db
            if db.age > MAX_CACHE_AGE:
                log.debug('Sqlite data too old: %s, re-reflecting', db.age)
                # Metadata is empty or too old.
                # Spawn a thread to do the slow sqlalchemy reflection,
                # return whatever we have
                if noisy:
                    print("ipydb is fetching database metadata")
                self.spawn_reflection_thread(db_key, db, engine.url)
        return db
Fetch metadata for an sqlalchemy engine
dataset/ETHPy150Open jaysw/ipydb/ipydb/metadata/__init__.py/MetaDataAccessor.get_metadata