Lorin: Will 2.6 include the permanent fix or the workaround in your branch?
-James Jong On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:18 PM, Lorin Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > I've written a small workaround for getting at image meta data for images > taken through camera.getPicture on iOS > > Currently, UIImagePickerController embeds only a couple exif data entries > in the jpeg header of the resulting image. We've put together exif support, > and it should make it to 2.6.0. Until then, if anyone's interested, I have > a workaround in my github forks > > The branch: > https://github.com/lorinbeer/cordova-ios/tree/cb1285_hack > The change: > https://github.com/lorinbeer/cordovaios/commit/a0ba48700c8e13f1d873ded361bf91a1a2271dce > > This modifies the camera return value, converting the metadata dictionary > returned by UIImagePickerController to a json string, and returns it > bundled with image url in the return value. > > Example usage can be found here: > https://github.com/lorinbeer/cordova-mobile-spec/tree/camdatahack] > here specifically: > https://github.com/lorinbeer/cordova-mobile-spec/blob/camdatahack/camera/index.html > > Note that this is a temporary workaround, and not a suggestion to alter the > camera.getPicture return values in any official way. > > Ping me if you are interested in any further details. > > - Lorin
