# Authoritative match\_join\_attempt empty metadata

**URL:** https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/authoritative-match-join-attempt-empty-metadata/1411
**Category:** Local Setup
**Tags:** sdk-godot
**Created:** [March 2, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/authoritative-match-join-attempt-empty-metadata/1411 "2021-03-02T12:33:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![ceceppa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.heroiclabs.com/ceceppa/32/527_2.png) [@ceceppa](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/u/ceceppa)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/authoritative-match-join-attempt-empty-metadata/1411/1 "2021-03-02T12:33:55Z")

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Hi all,  
I’m trying to send some custom metadata from Godot when using the `join_match_async` method. From the log I can see that is sent:

`=== Nakama : DEBUG === Sending async request: MatchJoin<match_id=... token=Null, metadata={test:field}>`

But when I log the `metadata` parameter from the Lua file, I always get an empty table.  
Am I doing something wrong?

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### Author: ![zyro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.heroiclabs.com/zyro/32/14_2.png) [@zyro](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/u/zyro)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/authoritative-match-join-attempt-empty-metadata/1411/2 "2021-03-06T13:45:36Z")

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@ceceppa Sounds like you might be running into [this issue](https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama-godot/issues/59) which has already been resolved. Can you double-check you’re running the most recent version of the Nakama Godot client and try again?

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### Author: ![ceceppa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.heroiclabs.com/ceceppa/32/527_2.png) [@ceceppa](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/u/ceceppa)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/authoritative-match-join-attempt-empty-metadata/1411/3 "2021-03-07T16:59:56Z")

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I already have the latest version of the add-on and nakama image in my docker file.  
As you can see from my log the data is sent to Nakama, but form my lua file when I print “data” is an empty table.