Generic getter for all tags.

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp b/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp
index 2aecf8d..3b1e229 100644
--- a/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp
+++ b/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp
@@ -456,6 +456,7 @@ void Image::setThumbnailFromJpegFile(const std::string path)
 }
 */
 
+// TODO: update the errors code to reflect changes from src/error.cpp in libexiv2
 void translateExiv2Error(Exiv2::Error const& error)
 {
     // Use the Python 'C' API to set up an exception object
diff --git a/src/pyexiv2.py b/src/pyexiv2.py
index c64471a..9360b60 100644
--- a/src/pyexiv2.py
+++ b/src/pyexiv2.py
@@ -1022,6 +1022,17 @@ class ImageMetadata(object):
             self._tags['xmp'][key] = tag
             return tag
 
+    def get(self, key):
+        """
+        Get a metadata tag for a given key.
+        DOCME
+        """
+        family = key.split('.')[0].lower()
+        try:
+            return getattr(self, '_get_%s_tag' % family)(key)
+        except AttributeError:
+            raise KeyError(key)
+
 
 class Image(libexiv2python.Image):