def _collect_metrics(repo, path, recursive, typ, xpath, branch):
    """Gather all the metric outputs.

    Args:
        path (str): Path to a metric file or a directory.
        recursive (bool): If path is a directory, do a recursive search for
            metrics on the given path.
        typ (str): The type of metric to search for, could be one of the
            following (raw|json|tsv|htsv|csv|hcsv).
        xpath (str): Path to search for.
        branch (str): Branch to look up for metrics.

    Returns:
        list(tuple): (output, typ, xpath)
            - output:
            - typ:
            - xpath:
    """
    outs = [out for stage in repo.stages() for out in stage.outs]

    if path:
        try:
            outs = repo.find_outs_by_path(path, outs=outs, recursive=recursive)
        except OutputNotFoundError:
            logger.debug(
                "stage file not for found for '{}' in branch '{}'".format(
                    path, branch
                )
            )
            return []

    res = []
    for o in outs:
        if not o.metric:
            continue

        if not typ and isinstance(o.metric, dict):
            t = o.metric.get(o.PARAM_METRIC_TYPE, typ)
            x = o.metric.get(o.PARAM_METRIC_XPATH, xpath)
        else:
            t = typ
            x = xpath

        res.append((o, t, x))

    return res
Gather all the metric outputs.

    Args:
        path (str): Path to a metric file or a directory.
        recursive (bool): If path is a directory, do a recursive search for
            metrics on the given path.
        typ (str): The type of metric to search for, could be one of the
            following (raw|json|tsv|htsv|csv|hcsv).
        xpath (str): Path to search for.
        branch (str): Branch to look up for metrics.

    Returns:
        list(tuple): (output, typ, xpath)
            - output:
            - typ:
            - xpath: