Questions inline.. On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Lorin Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi George, > > you should have access to the original date and time, as well as all the > other metadata, through the solution I posted in CB-1246. > > The solution we decided to pursue for CB-1285 was to properly embed the > metadata in exif format within the jpeg header as per the exif header > standard. This would mean writing/using a serverside jpeg exif parser to
What do you mean serverside? Can I only take pictures online? > read the data back out. As Shaz mentioned, writing an Exif Reader for unit > tests may be a possibility, but only if such a project would provide > significant utility to the Cordova community. For validation > programatically, I'd rather hack together tests using an existing reader, > which may have an incompatible license, making it impossible to include > into Cordova Core. > > If you have any questions about how to use the solution posted in CB-1246, > please ask! > > -Lorin > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Shazron Abdullah (JIRA) > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> [ >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1285?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13487601#comment-13487601] >> >> Shazron Abdullah commented on CB-1285: >> -------------------------------------- >> >> Lorin can clarify, but as I understand it, this fix is to incorporate the >> original image's EXIF _into_ the Cordova created image. >> >> In the process of doing so, Lorin has created an EXIF writer (the original >> EXIF data is passed to us from the camera viewcontroller in a NSDictionary). >> >> To get the EXIF data separately, there is no support in the current API. I >> reckon to do so Lorin would have to include an EXIF Reader (and he may do >> so for unit tests), and someone can create a separate plugin for that >> feature that you want. >> >> > Include EXIF metadata in image upload >> > ------------------------------------- >> > >> > Key: CB-1285 >> > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1285 >> > Project: Apache Cordova >> > Issue Type: Improvement >> > Components: iOS >> > Affects Versions: 2.0.0 >> > Environment: iOS 5.1.1 (iPad 2 & iPhone 4) >> > Reporter: Stephen McKamey >> > Assignee: Lorin Beer >> > Fix For: 2.3.0 >> > >> > >> > Now that Cordova only supports iOS 4.2+, it would be great if it would >> include the additional EXIF metadata which exists in original image files. >> Currently this is all stripped. I've noticed a recent increased trend of >> iOS apps declaring that they can gain access to EXIF data if the user >> permits location information. If EXIF & geo data were passed through this >> would be a huge gain for Cordova. >> > Related: a similar issue (CB-295) was opened for Android and it sounds >> like it was implemented. From the other issue, it sounded like it was a >> side effect of resizing the image. If no resizing needs to occur (i.e., the >> untouched original bits are desired), then perhaps this would help? >> >> -- >> This message is automatically generated by JIRA. >> If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA >> administrators >> For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira >> -- @purplecabbage risingj.com
