added flag to add custom metadata

client/clientIPTable/AddCustomInformationToIPTable.go

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+package clientIPTable
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"github.com/Akilan1999/p2p-rendering-computation/config"
+	"github.com/Akilan1999/p2p-rendering-computation/p2p"
+)
+
+func AddCustomInformationToIPTable(text string) error {
+	// Get config information
+	Config, err := config.ConfigInit(nil, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Get IPTable information
+	table, err := p2p.ReadIpTable()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	found := false
+
+	for i, _ := range table.IpAddress {
+		if table.IpAddress[i].Name == Config.MachineName {
+			table.IpAddress[i].CustomInformation = text
+			found = true
+		}
+	}
+
+	if found {
+		table.WriteIpTable()
+		// update IPTable after modified entry
+		UpdateIpTableListClient()
+	} else {
+		return errors.New("start server with p2prc -s as the server is currently not running")
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}