diff src/exif-common.c @ 1203:43bfcbb62cd6

prepared infrastructure for delayed metadata writting - refreshing metadata immediately before writting is now possible modified metadata are stored in fd->modified_xmp

--- a/src/exif-common.c	Mon Dec 15 18:04:42 2008 +0000
+++ b/src/exif-common.c	Mon Dec 15 22:47:31 2008 +0000
@@ -627,10 +627,27 @@
 			}
 		}
 
-	fd->exif = exif_read(fd->path, sidecar_path);
+	fd->exif = exif_read(fd->path, sidecar_path, fd->modified_xmp);
 	return fd->exif;
 }
 
+gint exif_write_fd(FileData *fd)
+{
+	gint success;
+	ExifData *exif;
+	
+	/*  exif_read_fd can either use cached metadata which have fd->modified_xmp already applied 
+	                             or read metadata from file and apply fd->modified_xmp
+	    metadata are read also if the file was modified meanwhile */
+	exif = exif_read_fd(fd); 
+	if (!exif) return FALSE;
+	success = exif_write(exif); /* write modified metadata */
+	exif_free_fd(fd, exif);
+	g_hash_table_destroy(fd->modified_xmp);
+	fd->modified_xmp = NULL;
+	return success;
+}
+
 void exif_free_fd(FileData *fd, ExifData *exif)
 {
 	if (!fd) return;