code: def insertVariantSet(self, variantSet):
          
          # We cheat a little here with the VariantSetMetadata, and encode these
          # within the table as a JSON dump. These should really be stored in
          # their own table
          metadataJson = json.dumps(
              [protocol.toJsonDict(metadata) for metadata in
               variantSet.getMetadata()])
          urlMapJson = json.dumps(variantSet.getReferenceToDataUrlIndexMap())
          try:
              models.Variantset.create(
                  id=variantSet.getId(),
                  datasetid=variantSet.getParentContainer().getId(),
                  referencesetid=variantSet.getReferenceSet().getId(),
                  name=variantSet.getLocalId(),
                  created=datetime.datetime.now(),
                  updated=datetime.datetime.now(),
                  metadata=metadataJson,
                  dataurlindexmap=urlMapJson,
                  attributes=json.dumps(variantSet.getAttributes()))
          except Exception as e:
              raise exceptions.RepoManagerException(e)
          for callSet in variantSet.getCallSets():
              self.insertCallSet(callSet)
docs: Inserts a the specified variantSet into this repository.