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| -rw-r--r-- | src/exiv2wrapper.cpp | 7 |
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diff --git a/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp b/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp index 0033b23..332b78f 100644 --- a/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp +++ b/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp @@ -573,6 +573,13 @@ ExifTag::ExifTag(const std::string& key, const uint16_t tag = _datum->tag(); const Exiv2::IfdId ifd = _datum->ifdId(); _type = Exiv2::TypeInfo::typeName(Exiv2::ExifTags::tagType(tag, ifd)); + // Where available, extract the type from the metadata, it is more reliable + // than static type information. The exception is for user comments, for + // which we’d rather keep the 'Comment' type instead of 'Undefined'. + if ((_data != 0) && (_type != "Comment")) + { + _type = _datum->typeName(); + } _name = Exiv2::ExifTags::tagName(tag, ifd); _label = Exiv2::ExifTags::tagLabel(tag, ifd); _description = Exiv2::ExifTags::tagDesc(tag, ifd); |