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package/python/Lib/site-packages/pip/_vendor/packaging/metadata.py

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+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import email.feedparser
+import email.header
+import email.message
+import email.parser
+import email.policy
+import keyword
+import pathlib
+import sys
+import typing
+from typing import (
+    Any,
+    Callable,
+    Generic,
+    Literal,
+    TypedDict,
+    cast,
+)
+
+from . import licenses, requirements, specifiers, utils
+from . import version as version_module
+
+if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from .licenses import NormalizedLicenseExpression
+
+T = typing.TypeVar("T")
+
+
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 11):  # pragma: no cover
+    ExceptionGroup = ExceptionGroup  # noqa: F821
+else:  # pragma: no cover
+
+    class ExceptionGroup(Exception):
+        """A minimal implementation of :external:exc:`ExceptionGroup` from Python 3.11.
+
+        If :external:exc:`ExceptionGroup` is already defined by Python itself,
+        that version is used instead.
+        """
+
+        message: str
+        exceptions: list[Exception]
+
+        def __init__(self, message: str, exceptions: list[Exception]) -> None:
+            self.message = message
+            self.exceptions = exceptions
+
+        def __repr__(self) -> str:
+            return f"{self.__class__.__name__}({self.message!r}, {self.exceptions!r})"
+
+
+class InvalidMetadata(ValueError):
+    """A metadata field contains invalid data."""
+
+    field: str
+    """The name of the field that contains invalid data."""
+
+    def __init__(self, field: str, message: str) -> None:
+        self.field = field
+        super().__init__(message)
+
+
+# The RawMetadata class attempts to make as few assumptions about the underlying
+# serialization formats as possible. The idea is that as long as a serialization
+# formats offer some very basic primitives in *some* way then we can support
+# serializing to and from that format.
+class RawMetadata(TypedDict, total=False):
+    """A dictionary of raw core metadata.
+
+    Each field in core metadata maps to a key of this dictionary (when data is
+    provided). The key is lower-case and underscores are used instead of dashes
+    compared to the equivalent core metadata field. Any core metadata field that
+    can be specified multiple times or can hold multiple values in a single
+    field have a key with a plural name. See :class:`Metadata` whose attributes
+    match the keys of this dictionary.
+
+    Core metadata fields that can be specified multiple times are stored as a
+    list or dict depending on which is appropriate for the field. Any fields
+    which hold multiple values in a single field are stored as a list.
+
+    """
+
+    # Metadata 1.0 - PEP 241
+    metadata_version: str
+    name: str
+    version: str
+    platforms: list[str]
+    summary: str
+    description: str
+    keywords: list[str]
+    home_page: str
+    author: str
+    author_email: str
+    license: str
+
+    # Metadata 1.1 - PEP 314
+    supported_platforms: list[str]
+    download_url: str
+    classifiers: list[str]
+    requires: list[str]
+    provides: list[str]
+    obsoletes: list[str]
+
+    # Metadata 1.2 - PEP 345
+    maintainer: str
+    maintainer_email: str
+    requires_dist: list[str]
+    provides_dist: list[str]
+    obsoletes_dist: list[str]
+    requires_python: str
+    requires_external: list[str]
+    project_urls: dict[str, str]
+
+    # Metadata 2.0
+    # PEP 426 attempted to completely revamp the metadata format
+    # but got stuck without ever being able to build consensus on
+    # it and ultimately ended up withdrawn.
+    #
+    # However, a number of tools had started emitting METADATA with
+    # `2.0` Metadata-Version, so for historical reasons, this version
+    # was skipped.
+
+    # Metadata 2.1 - PEP 566
+    description_content_type: str
+    provides_extra: list[str]
+
+    # Metadata 2.2 - PEP 643
+    dynamic: list[str]
+
+    # Metadata 2.3 - PEP 685
+    # No new fields were added in PEP 685, just some edge case were
+    # tightened up to provide better interoperability.
+
+    # Metadata 2.4 - PEP 639
+    license_expression: str
+    license_files: list[str]
+
+    # Metadata 2.5 - PEP 794
+    import_names: list[str]
+    import_namespaces: list[str]
+
+
+# 'keywords' is special as it's a string in the core metadata spec, but we
+# represent it as a list.
+_STRING_FIELDS = {
+    "author",
+    "author_email",
+    "description",
+    "description_content_type",
+    "download_url",
+    "home_page",
+    "license",
+    "license_expression",
+    "maintainer",
+    "maintainer_email",
+    "metadata_version",
+    "name",
+    "requires_python",
+    "summary",
+    "version",
+}
+
+_LIST_FIELDS = {
+    "classifiers",
+    "dynamic",
+    "license_files",
+    "obsoletes",
+    "obsoletes_dist",
+    "platforms",
+    "provides",
+    "provides_dist",
+    "provides_extra",
+    "requires",
+    "requires_dist",
+    "requires_external",
+    "supported_platforms",
+    "import_names",
+    "import_namespaces",
+}
+
+_DICT_FIELDS = {
+    "project_urls",
+}
+
+
+def _parse_keywords(data: str) -> list[str]:
+    """Split a string of comma-separated keywords into a list of keywords."""
+    return [k.strip() for k in data.split(",")]
+
+
+def _parse_project_urls(data: list[str]) -> dict[str, str]:
+    """Parse a list of label/URL string pairings separated by a comma."""
+    urls = {}
+    for pair in data:
+        # Our logic is slightly tricky here as we want to try and do
+        # *something* reasonable with malformed data.
+        #
+        # The main thing that we have to worry about, is data that does
+        # not have a ',' at all to split the label from the Value. There
+        # isn't a singular right answer here, and we will fail validation
+        # later on (if the caller is validating) so it doesn't *really*
+        # matter, but since the missing value has to be an empty str
+        # and our return value is dict[str, str], if we let the key
+        # be the missing value, then they'd have multiple '' values that
+        # overwrite each other in a accumulating dict.
+        #
+        # The other potential issue is that it's possible to have the
+        # same label multiple times in the metadata, with no solid "right"
+        # answer with what to do in that case. As such, we'll do the only
+        # thing we can, which is treat the field as unparsable and add it
+        # to our list of unparsed fields.
+        #
+        # TODO: The spec doesn't say anything about if the keys should be
+        #       considered case sensitive or not... logically they should
+        #       be case-preserving and case-insensitive, but doing that
+        #       would open up more cases where we might have duplicate
+        #       entries.
+        label, _, url = (s.strip() for s in pair.partition(","))
+
+        if label in urls:
+            # The label already exists in our set of urls, so this field
+            # is unparsable, and we can just add the whole thing to our
+            # unparsable data and stop processing it.
+            raise KeyError("duplicate labels in project urls")
+        urls[label] = url
+
+    return urls
+
+
+def _get_payload(msg: email.message.Message, source: bytes | str) -> str:
+    """Get the body of the message."""
+    # If our source is a str, then our caller has managed encodings for us,
+    # and we don't need to deal with it.
+    if isinstance(source, str):
+        payload = msg.get_payload()
+        assert isinstance(payload, str)
+        return payload
+    # If our source is a bytes, then we're managing the encoding and we need
+    # to deal with it.
+    else:
+        bpayload = msg.get_payload(decode=True)
+        assert isinstance(bpayload, bytes)
+        try:
+            return bpayload.decode("utf8", "strict")
+        except UnicodeDecodeError as exc:
+            raise ValueError("payload in an invalid encoding") from exc
+
+
+# The various parse_FORMAT functions here are intended to be as lenient as
+# possible in their parsing, while still returning a correctly typed
+# RawMetadata.
+#
+# To aid in this, we also generally want to do as little touching of the
+# data as possible, except where there are possibly some historic holdovers
+# that make valid data awkward to work with.
+#
+# While this is a lower level, intermediate format than our ``Metadata``
+# class, some light touch ups can make a massive difference in usability.
+
+# Map METADATA fields to RawMetadata.
+_EMAIL_TO_RAW_MAPPING = {
+    "author": "author",
+    "author-email": "author_email",
+    "classifier": "classifiers",
+    "description": "description",
+    "description-content-type": "description_content_type",
+    "download-url": "download_url",
+    "dynamic": "dynamic",
+    "home-page": "home_page",
+    "import-name": "import_names",
+    "import-namespace": "import_namespaces",
+    "keywords": "keywords",
+    "license": "license",
+    "license-expression": "license_expression",
+    "license-file": "license_files",
+    "maintainer": "maintainer",
+    "maintainer-email": "maintainer_email",
+    "metadata-version": "metadata_version",
+    "name": "name",
+    "obsoletes": "obsoletes",
+    "obsoletes-dist": "obsoletes_dist",
+    "platform": "platforms",
+    "project-url": "project_urls",
+    "provides": "provides",
+    "provides-dist": "provides_dist",
+    "provides-extra": "provides_extra",
+    "requires": "requires",
+    "requires-dist": "requires_dist",
+    "requires-external": "requires_external",
+    "requires-python": "requires_python",
+    "summary": "summary",
+    "supported-platform": "supported_platforms",
+    "version": "version",
+}
+_RAW_TO_EMAIL_MAPPING = {raw: email for email, raw in _EMAIL_TO_RAW_MAPPING.items()}
+
+
+# This class is for writing RFC822 messages
+class RFC822Policy(email.policy.EmailPolicy):
+    """
+    This is :class:`email.policy.EmailPolicy`, but with a simple ``header_store_parse``
+    implementation that handles multi-line values, and some nice defaults.
+    """
+
+    utf8 = True
+    mangle_from_ = False
+    max_line_length = 0
+
+    def header_store_parse(self, name: str, value: str) -> tuple[str, str]:
+        size = len(name) + 2
+        value = value.replace("\n", "\n" + " " * size)
+        return (name, value)
+
+
+# This class is for writing RFC822 messages
+class RFC822Message(email.message.EmailMessage):
+    """
+    This is :class:`email.message.EmailMessage` with two small changes: it defaults to
+    our `RFC822Policy`, and it correctly writes unicode when being called
+    with `bytes()`.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        super().__init__(policy=RFC822Policy())
+
+    def as_bytes(
+        self, unixfrom: bool = False, policy: email.policy.Policy | None = None
+    ) -> bytes:
+        """
+        Return the bytes representation of the message.
+
+        This handles unicode encoding.
+        """
+        return self.as_string(unixfrom, policy=policy).encode("utf-8")
+
+
+def parse_email(data: bytes | str) -> tuple[RawMetadata, dict[str, list[str]]]:
+    """Parse a distribution's metadata stored as email headers (e.g. from ``METADATA``).
+
+    This function returns a two-item tuple of dicts. The first dict is of
+    recognized fields from the core metadata specification. Fields that can be
+    parsed and translated into Python's built-in types are converted
+    appropriately. All other fields are left as-is. Fields that are allowed to
+    appear multiple times are stored as lists.
+
+    The second dict contains all other fields from the metadata. This includes
+    any unrecognized fields. It also includes any fields which are expected to
+    be parsed into a built-in type but were not formatted appropriately. Finally,
+    any fields that are expected to appear only once but are repeated are
+    included in this dict.
+
+    """
+    raw: dict[str, str | list[str] | dict[str, str]] = {}
+    unparsed: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
+
+    if isinstance(data, str):
+        parsed = email.parser.Parser(policy=email.policy.compat32).parsestr(data)
+    else:
+        parsed = email.parser.BytesParser(policy=email.policy.compat32).parsebytes(data)
+
+    # We have to wrap parsed.keys() in a set, because in the case of multiple
+    # values for a key (a list), the key will appear multiple times in the
+    # list of keys, but we're avoiding that by using get_all().
+    for name_with_case in frozenset(parsed.keys()):
+        # Header names in RFC are case insensitive, so we'll normalize to all
+        # lower case to make comparisons easier.
+        name = name_with_case.lower()
+
+        # We use get_all() here, even for fields that aren't multiple use,
+        # because otherwise someone could have e.g. two Name fields, and we
+        # would just silently ignore it rather than doing something about it.
+        headers = parsed.get_all(name) or []
+
+        # The way the email module works when parsing bytes is that it
+        # unconditionally decodes the bytes as ascii using the surrogateescape
+        # handler. When you pull that data back out (such as with get_all() ),
+        # it looks to see if the str has any surrogate escapes, and if it does
+        # it wraps it in a Header object instead of returning the string.
+        #
+        # As such, we'll look for those Header objects, and fix up the encoding.
+        value = []
+        # Flag if we have run into any issues processing the headers, thus
+        # signalling that the data belongs in 'unparsed'.
+        valid_encoding = True
+        for h in headers:
+            # It's unclear if this can return more types than just a Header or
+            # a str, so we'll just assert here to make sure.
+            assert isinstance(h, (email.header.Header, str))
+
+            # If it's a header object, we need to do our little dance to get
+            # the real data out of it. In cases where there is invalid data
+            # we're going to end up with mojibake, but there's no obvious, good
+            # way around that without reimplementing parts of the Header object
+            # ourselves.
+            #
+            # That should be fine since, if mojibacked happens, this key is
+            # going into the unparsed dict anyways.
+            if isinstance(h, email.header.Header):
+                # The Header object stores it's data as chunks, and each chunk
+                # can be independently encoded, so we'll need to check each
+                # of them.
+                chunks: list[tuple[bytes, str | None]] = []
+                for binary, _encoding in email.header.decode_header(h):
+                    try:
+                        binary.decode("utf8", "strict")
+                    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                        # Enable mojibake.
+                        encoding = "latin1"
+                        valid_encoding = False
+                    else:
+                        encoding = "utf8"
+                    chunks.append((binary, encoding))
+
+                # Turn our chunks back into a Header object, then let that
+                # Header object do the right thing to turn them into a
+                # string for us.
+                value.append(str(email.header.make_header(chunks)))
+            # This is already a string, so just add it.
+            else:
+                value.append(h)
+
+        # We've processed all of our values to get them into a list of str,
+        # but we may have mojibake data, in which case this is an unparsed
+        # field.
+        if not valid_encoding:
+            unparsed[name] = value
+            continue
+
+        raw_name = _EMAIL_TO_RAW_MAPPING.get(name)
+        if raw_name is None:
+            # This is a bit of a weird situation, we've encountered a key that
+            # we don't know what it means, so we don't know whether it's meant
+            # to be a list or not.
+            #
+            # Since we can't really tell one way or another, we'll just leave it
+            # as a list, even though it may be a single item list, because that's
+            # what makes the most sense for email headers.
+            unparsed[name] = value
+            continue
+
+        # If this is one of our string fields, then we'll check to see if our
+        # value is a list of a single item. If it is then we'll assume that
+        # it was emitted as a single string, and unwrap the str from inside
+        # the list.
+        #
+        # If it's any other kind of data, then we haven't the faintest clue
+        # what we should parse it as, and we have to just add it to our list
+        # of unparsed stuff.
+        if raw_name in _STRING_FIELDS and len(value) == 1:
+            raw[raw_name] = value[0]
+        # If this is import_names, we need to special case the empty field
+        # case, which converts to an empty list instead of None. We can't let
+        # the empty case slip through, as it will fail validation.
+        elif raw_name == "import_names" and value == [""]:
+            raw[raw_name] = []
+        # If this is one of our list of string fields, then we can just assign
+        # the value, since email *only* has strings, and our get_all() call
+        # above ensures that this is a list.
+        elif raw_name in _LIST_FIELDS:
+            raw[raw_name] = value
+        # Special Case: Keywords
+        # The keywords field is implemented in the metadata spec as a str,
+        # but it conceptually is a list of strings, and is serialized using
+        # ", ".join(keywords), so we'll do some light data massaging to turn
+        # this into what it logically is.
+        elif raw_name == "keywords" and len(value) == 1:
+            raw[raw_name] = _parse_keywords(value[0])
+        # Special Case: Project-URL
+        # The project urls is implemented in the metadata spec as a list of
+        # specially-formatted strings that represent a key and a value, which
+        # is fundamentally a mapping, however the email format doesn't support
+        # mappings in a sane way, so it was crammed into a list of strings
+        # instead.
+        #
+        # We will do a little light data massaging to turn this into a map as
+        # it logically should be.
+        elif raw_name == "project_urls":
+            try:
+                raw[raw_name] = _parse_project_urls(value)
+            except KeyError:
+                unparsed[name] = value
+        # Nothing that we've done has managed to parse this, so it'll just
+        # throw it in our unparsable data and move on.
+        else:
+            unparsed[name] = value
+
+    # We need to support getting the Description from the message payload in
+    # addition to getting it from the the headers. This does mean, though, there
+    # is the possibility of it being set both ways, in which case we put both
+    # in 'unparsed' since we don't know which is right.
+    try:
+        payload = _get_payload(parsed, data)
+    except ValueError:
+        unparsed.setdefault("description", []).append(
+            parsed.get_payload(decode=isinstance(data, bytes))  # type: ignore[call-overload]
+        )
+    else:
+        if payload:
+            # Check to see if we've already got a description, if so then both
+            # it, and this body move to unparsable.
+            if "description" in raw:
+                description_header = cast("str", raw.pop("description"))
+                unparsed.setdefault("description", []).extend(
+                    [description_header, payload]
+                )
+            elif "description" in unparsed:
+                unparsed["description"].append(payload)
+            else:
+                raw["description"] = payload
+
+    # We need to cast our `raw` to a metadata, because a TypedDict only support
+    # literal key names, but we're computing our key names on purpose, but the
+    # way this function is implemented, our `TypedDict` can only have valid key
+    # names.
+    return cast("RawMetadata", raw), unparsed
+
+
+_NOT_FOUND = object()
+
+
+# Keep the two values in sync.
+_VALID_METADATA_VERSIONS = ["1.0", "1.1", "1.2", "2.1", "2.2", "2.3", "2.4", "2.5"]
+_MetadataVersion = Literal["1.0", "1.1", "1.2", "2.1", "2.2", "2.3", "2.4", "2.5"]
+
+_REQUIRED_ATTRS = frozenset(["metadata_version", "name", "version"])
+
+
+class _Validator(Generic[T]):
+    """Validate a metadata field.
+
+    All _process_*() methods correspond to a core metadata field. The method is
+    called with the field's raw value. If the raw value is valid it is returned
+    in its "enriched" form (e.g. ``version.Version`` for the ``Version`` field).
+    If the raw value is invalid, :exc:`InvalidMetadata` is raised (with a cause
+    as appropriate).
+    """
+
+    name: str
+    raw_name: str
+    added: _MetadataVersion
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        *,
+        added: _MetadataVersion = "1.0",
+    ) -> None:
+        self.added = added
+
+    def __set_name__(self, _owner: Metadata, name: str) -> None:
+        self.name = name
+        self.raw_name = _RAW_TO_EMAIL_MAPPING[name]
+
+    def __get__(self, instance: Metadata, _owner: type[Metadata]) -> T:
+        # With Python 3.8, the caching can be replaced with functools.cached_property().
+        # No need to check the cache as attribute lookup will resolve into the
+        # instance's __dict__ before __get__ is called.
+        cache = instance.__dict__
+        value = instance._raw.get(self.name)
+
+        # To make the _process_* methods easier, we'll check if the value is None
+        # and if this field is NOT a required attribute, and if both of those
+        # things are true, we'll skip the the converter. This will mean that the
+        # converters never have to deal with the None union.
+        if self.name in _REQUIRED_ATTRS or value is not None:
+            try:
+                converter: Callable[[Any], T] = getattr(self, f"_process_{self.name}")
+            except AttributeError:
+                pass
+            else:
+                value = converter(value)
+
+        cache[self.name] = value
+        try:
+            del instance._raw[self.name]  # type: ignore[misc]
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
+        return cast("T", value)
+
+    def _invalid_metadata(
+        self, msg: str, cause: Exception | None = None
+    ) -> InvalidMetadata:
+        exc = InvalidMetadata(
+            self.raw_name, msg.format_map({"field": repr(self.raw_name)})
+        )
+        exc.__cause__ = cause
+        return exc
+
+    def _process_metadata_version(self, value: str) -> _MetadataVersion:
+        # Implicitly makes Metadata-Version required.
+        if value not in _VALID_METADATA_VERSIONS:
+            raise self._invalid_metadata(f"{value!r} is not a valid metadata version")
+        return cast("_MetadataVersion", value)
+
+    def _process_name(self, value: str) -> str:
+        if not value:
+            raise self._invalid_metadata("{field} is a required field")
+        # Validate the name as a side-effect.
+        try:
+            utils.canonicalize_name(value, validate=True)
+        except utils.InvalidName as exc:
+            raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                f"{value!r} is invalid for {{field}}", cause=exc
+            ) from exc
+        else:
+            return value
+
+    def _process_version(self, value: str) -> version_module.Version:
+        if not value:
+            raise self._invalid_metadata("{field} is a required field")
+        try:
+            return version_module.parse(value)
+        except version_module.InvalidVersion as exc:
+            raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                f"{value!r} is invalid for {{field}}", cause=exc
+            ) from exc
+
+    def _process_summary(self, value: str) -> str:
+        """Check the field contains no newlines."""
+        if "\n" in value:
+            raise self._invalid_metadata("{field} must be a single line")
+        return value
+
+    def _process_description_content_type(self, value: str) -> str:
+        content_types = {"text/plain", "text/x-rst", "text/markdown"}
+        message = email.message.EmailMessage()
+        message["content-type"] = value
+
+        content_type, parameters = (
+            # Defaults to `text/plain` if parsing failed.
+            message.get_content_type().lower(),
+            message["content-type"].params,
+        )
+        # Check if content-type is valid or defaulted to `text/plain` and thus was
+        # not parseable.
+        if content_type not in content_types or content_type not in value.lower():
+            raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                f"{{field}} must be one of {list(content_types)}, not {value!r}"
+            )
+
+        charset = parameters.get("charset", "UTF-8")
+        if charset != "UTF-8":
+            raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                f"{{field}} can only specify the UTF-8 charset, not {list(charset)}"
+            )
+
+        markdown_variants = {"GFM", "CommonMark"}
+        variant = parameters.get("variant", "GFM")  # Use an acceptable default.
+        if content_type == "text/markdown" and variant not in markdown_variants:
+            raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                f"valid Markdown variants for {{field}} are {list(markdown_variants)}, "
+                f"not {variant!r}",
+            )
+        return value
+
+    def _process_dynamic(self, value: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+        for dynamic_field in map(str.lower, value):
+            if dynamic_field in {"name", "version", "metadata-version"}:
+                raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                    f"{dynamic_field!r} is not allowed as a dynamic field"
+                )
+            elif dynamic_field not in _EMAIL_TO_RAW_MAPPING:
+                raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                    f"{dynamic_field!r} is not a valid dynamic field"
+                )
+        return list(map(str.lower, value))
+
+    def _process_provides_extra(
+        self,
+        value: list[str],
+    ) -> list[utils.NormalizedName]:
+        normalized_names = []
+        try:
+            for name in value:
+                normalized_names.append(utils.canonicalize_name(name, validate=True))
+        except utils.InvalidName as exc:
+            raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                f"{name!r} is invalid for {{field}}", cause=exc
+            ) from exc
+        else:
+            return normalized_names
+
+    def _process_requires_python(self, value: str) -> specifiers.SpecifierSet:
+        try:
+            return specifiers.SpecifierSet(value)
+        except specifiers.InvalidSpecifier as exc:
+            raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                f"{value!r} is invalid for {{field}}", cause=exc
+            ) from exc
+
+    def _process_requires_dist(
+        self,
+        value: list[str],
+    ) -> list[requirements.Requirement]:
+        reqs = []
+        try:
+            for req in value:
+                reqs.append(requirements.Requirement(req))
+        except requirements.InvalidRequirement as exc:
+            raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                f"{req!r} is invalid for {{field}}", cause=exc
+            ) from exc
+        else:
+            return reqs
+
+    def _process_license_expression(self, value: str) -> NormalizedLicenseExpression:
+        try:
+            return licenses.canonicalize_license_expression(value)
+        except ValueError as exc:
+            raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                f"{value!r} is invalid for {{field}}", cause=exc
+            ) from exc
+
+    def _process_license_files(self, value: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+        paths = []
+        for path in value:
+            if ".." in path:
+                raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                    f"{path!r} is invalid for {{field}}, "
+                    "parent directory indicators are not allowed"
+                )
+            if "*" in path:
+                raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                    f"{path!r} is invalid for {{field}}, paths must be resolved"
+                )
+            if (
+                pathlib.PurePosixPath(path).is_absolute()
+                or pathlib.PureWindowsPath(path).is_absolute()
+            ):
+                raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                    f"{path!r} is invalid for {{field}}, paths must be relative"
+                )
+            if pathlib.PureWindowsPath(path).as_posix() != path:
+                raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                    f"{path!r} is invalid for {{field}}, paths must use '/' delimiter"
+                )
+            paths.append(path)
+        return paths
+
+    def _process_import_names(self, value: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+        for import_name in value:
+            name, semicolon, private = import_name.partition(";")
+            name = name.rstrip()
+            for identifier in name.split("."):
+                if not identifier.isidentifier():
+                    raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                        f"{name!r} is invalid for {{field}}; "
+                        f"{identifier!r} is not a valid identifier"
+                    )
+                elif keyword.iskeyword(identifier):
+                    raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                        f"{name!r} is invalid for {{field}}; "
+                        f"{identifier!r} is a keyword"
+                    )
+            if semicolon and private.lstrip() != "private":
+                raise self._invalid_metadata(
+                    f"{import_name!r} is invalid for {{field}}; "
+                    "the only valid option is 'private'"
+                )
+        return value
+
+    _process_import_namespaces = _process_import_names
+
+
+class Metadata:
+    """Representation of distribution metadata.
+
+    Compared to :class:`RawMetadata`, this class provides objects representing
+    metadata fields instead of only using built-in types. Any invalid metadata
+    will cause :exc:`InvalidMetadata` to be raised (with a
+    :py:attr:`~BaseException.__cause__` attribute as appropriate).
+    """
+
+    _raw: RawMetadata
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_raw(cls, data: RawMetadata, *, validate: bool = True) -> Metadata:
+        """Create an instance from :class:`RawMetadata`.
+
+        If *validate* is true, all metadata will be validated. All exceptions
+        related to validation will be gathered and raised as an :class:`ExceptionGroup`.
+        """
+        ins = cls()
+        ins._raw = data.copy()  # Mutations occur due to caching enriched values.
+
+        if validate:
+            exceptions: list[Exception] = []
+            try:
+                metadata_version = ins.metadata_version
+                metadata_age = _VALID_METADATA_VERSIONS.index(metadata_version)
+            except InvalidMetadata as metadata_version_exc:
+                exceptions.append(metadata_version_exc)
+                metadata_version = None
+
+            # Make sure to check for the fields that are present, the required
+            # fields (so their absence can be reported).
+            fields_to_check = frozenset(ins._raw) | _REQUIRED_ATTRS
+            # Remove fields that have already been checked.
+            fields_to_check -= {"metadata_version"}
+
+            for key in fields_to_check:
+                try:
+                    if metadata_version:
+                        # Can't use getattr() as that triggers descriptor protocol which
+                        # will fail due to no value for the instance argument.
+                        try:
+                            field_metadata_version = cls.__dict__[key].added
+                        except KeyError:
+                            exc = InvalidMetadata(key, f"unrecognized field: {key!r}")
+                            exceptions.append(exc)
+                            continue
+                        field_age = _VALID_METADATA_VERSIONS.index(
+                            field_metadata_version
+                        )
+                        if field_age > metadata_age:
+                            field = _RAW_TO_EMAIL_MAPPING[key]
+                            exc = InvalidMetadata(
+                                field,
+                                f"{field} introduced in metadata version "
+                                f"{field_metadata_version}, not {metadata_version}",
+                            )
+                            exceptions.append(exc)
+                            continue
+                    getattr(ins, key)
+                except InvalidMetadata as exc:
+                    exceptions.append(exc)
+
+            if exceptions:
+                raise ExceptionGroup("invalid metadata", exceptions)
+
+        return ins
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_email(cls, data: bytes | str, *, validate: bool = True) -> Metadata:
+        """Parse metadata from email headers.
+
+        If *validate* is true, the metadata will be validated. All exceptions
+        related to validation will be gathered and raised as an :class:`ExceptionGroup`.
+        """
+        raw, unparsed = parse_email(data)
+
+        if validate:
+            exceptions: list[Exception] = []
+            for unparsed_key in unparsed:
+                if unparsed_key in _EMAIL_TO_RAW_MAPPING:
+                    message = f"{unparsed_key!r} has invalid data"
+                else:
+                    message = f"unrecognized field: {unparsed_key!r}"
+                exceptions.append(InvalidMetadata(unparsed_key, message))
+
+            if exceptions:
+                raise ExceptionGroup("unparsed", exceptions)
+
+        try:
+            return cls.from_raw(raw, validate=validate)
+        except ExceptionGroup as exc_group:
+            raise ExceptionGroup(
+                "invalid or unparsed metadata", exc_group.exceptions
+            ) from None
+
+    metadata_version: _Validator[_MetadataVersion] = _Validator()
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-metadata-version`
+    (required; validated to be a valid metadata version)"""
+    # `name` is not normalized/typed to NormalizedName so as to provide access to
+    # the original/raw name.
+    name: _Validator[str] = _Validator()
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-name`
+    (required; validated using :func:`~packaging.utils.canonicalize_name` and its
+    *validate* parameter)"""
+    version: _Validator[version_module.Version] = _Validator()
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-version` (required)"""
+    dynamic: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(
+        added="2.2",
+    )
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-dynamic`
+    (validated against core metadata field names and lowercased)"""
+    platforms: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator()
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-platform`"""
+    supported_platforms: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(added="1.1")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-supported-platform`"""
+    summary: _Validator[str | None] = _Validator()
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-summary` (validated to contain no newlines)"""
+    description: _Validator[str | None] = _Validator()  # TODO 2.1: can be in body
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-description`"""
+    description_content_type: _Validator[str | None] = _Validator(added="2.1")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-description-content-type` (validated)"""
+    keywords: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator()
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-keywords`"""
+    home_page: _Validator[str | None] = _Validator()
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-home-page`"""
+    download_url: _Validator[str | None] = _Validator(added="1.1")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-download-url`"""
+    author: _Validator[str | None] = _Validator()
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-author`"""
+    author_email: _Validator[str | None] = _Validator()
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-author-email`"""
+    maintainer: _Validator[str | None] = _Validator(added="1.2")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-maintainer`"""
+    maintainer_email: _Validator[str | None] = _Validator(added="1.2")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-maintainer-email`"""
+    license: _Validator[str | None] = _Validator()
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-license`"""
+    license_expression: _Validator[NormalizedLicenseExpression | None] = _Validator(
+        added="2.4"
+    )
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-license-expression`"""
+    license_files: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(added="2.4")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-license-file`"""
+    classifiers: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(added="1.1")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-classifier`"""
+    requires_dist: _Validator[list[requirements.Requirement] | None] = _Validator(
+        added="1.2"
+    )
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-requires-dist`"""
+    requires_python: _Validator[specifiers.SpecifierSet | None] = _Validator(
+        added="1.2"
+    )
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-requires-python`"""
+    # Because `Requires-External` allows for non-PEP 440 version specifiers, we
+    # don't do any processing on the values.
+    requires_external: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(added="1.2")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-requires-external`"""
+    project_urls: _Validator[dict[str, str] | None] = _Validator(added="1.2")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-project-url`"""
+    # PEP 685 lets us raise an error if an extra doesn't pass `Name` validation
+    # regardless of metadata version.
+    provides_extra: _Validator[list[utils.NormalizedName] | None] = _Validator(
+        added="2.1",
+    )
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-provides-extra`"""
+    provides_dist: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(added="1.2")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-provides-dist`"""
+    obsoletes_dist: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(added="1.2")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-obsoletes-dist`"""
+    import_names: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(added="2.5")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-import-name`"""
+    import_namespaces: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(added="2.5")
+    """:external:ref:`core-metadata-import-namespace`"""
+    requires: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(added="1.1")
+    """``Requires`` (deprecated)"""
+    provides: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(added="1.1")
+    """``Provides`` (deprecated)"""
+    obsoletes: _Validator[list[str] | None] = _Validator(added="1.1")
+    """``Obsoletes`` (deprecated)"""
+
+    def as_rfc822(self) -> RFC822Message:
+        """
+        Return an RFC822 message with the metadata.
+        """
+        message = RFC822Message()
+        self._write_metadata(message)
+        return message
+
+    def _write_metadata(self, message: RFC822Message) -> None:
+        """
+        Return an RFC822 message with the metadata.
+        """
+        for name, validator in self.__class__.__dict__.items():
+            if isinstance(validator, _Validator) and name != "description":
+                value = getattr(self, name)
+                email_name = _RAW_TO_EMAIL_MAPPING[name]
+                if value is not None:
+                    if email_name == "project-url":
+                        for label, url in value.items():
+                            message[email_name] = f"{label}, {url}"
+                    elif email_name == "keywords":
+                        message[email_name] = ",".join(value)
+                    elif email_name == "import-name" and value == []:
+                        message[email_name] = ""
+                    elif isinstance(value, list):
+                        for item in value:
+                            message[email_name] = str(item)
+                    else:
+                        message[email_name] = str(value)
+
+        # The description is a special case because it is in the body of the message.
+        if self.description is not None:
+            message.set_payload(self.description)