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| -rw-r--r-- | src/exiv2wrapper.cpp | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp b/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp index 071d916..0033b23 100644 --- a/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp +++ b/src/exiv2wrapper.cpp @@ -553,14 +553,14 @@ ExifTag::ExifTag(const std::string& key, // (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyexiv2/+bug/684177). #if EXIV2_TEST_VERSION(0,21,0) Exiv2::ExifKey exifKey(key); - if (_data != 0) + _type = Exiv2::TypeInfo::typeName(exifKey.defaultTypeId()); + // 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(); } - else - { - _type = Exiv2::TypeInfo::typeName(exifKey.defaultTypeId()); - } _name = exifKey.tagName(); _label = exifKey.tagLabel(); _description = exifKey.tagDesc(); |