I have been trying to access modified metadata of images in Java for the past few hours. I know I am one or two steps away from getting the correct output. Would really appreciate if someone can help me with this.
I want to add an extra field in the metadata, which is like an text similar to: Writing image metadata in Java, preferably PNG
My issue is that when i add the custom data to my image and when i read the image, i do not see the change in the modified metadata when i call the method readAndDisplay. I think the reason is that i am not saving the image properly into a new file with the modified metadata. Can someone have a look at what i am missing from my code:
public class Metadata {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String imageFile = "134.png";
BufferedImage img = null;
try {
img = ImageIO.read(new File(imageFile));
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
Metadata meta = new Metadata();
byte[] result = meta.writeCustomData(img, "decimalID", "211");
BufferedImage output = ImageIO.read(new ByteArrayInputStream(result));
ImageIO.write(output, "png", new File("output.png"));
meta.readAndDisplayMetadata("output.png");
}
void readAndDisplayMetadata( String fileName ) {
try {
File file = new File( fileName );
ImageInputStream iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(file);
Iterator<ImageReader> readers = ImageIO.getImageReaders(iis);
if (readers.hasNext()) {
// pick the first available ImageReader
ImageReader reader = readers.next();
// attach source to the reader
reader.setInput(iis, true);
// read metadata of first image
IIOMetadata metadata = reader.getImageMetadata(0);
String[] names = metadata.getMetadataFormatNames();
int length = names.length;
System.out.println(length);
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
System.out.println( "Format name: " + names[ i ] );
displayMetadata(metadata.getAsTree(names[i]));
}
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
void readAndDisplayMetadata( byte[] image ) {
try {
// File file = new File( fileName );
ImageInputStream iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(image));
Iterator<ImageReader> readers = ImageIO.getImageReaders(iis);
if (readers.hasNext()) {
// pick the first available ImageReader
ImageReader reader = readers.next();
// attach source to the reader
reader.setInput(iis, true);
// read metadata of first image
IIOMetadata metadata = reader.getImageMetadata(0);
String[] names = metadata.getMetadataFormatNames();
int length = names.length;
System.out.println(length);
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
System.out.println( "Format name: " + names[ i ] );
displayMetadata(metadata.getAsTree(names[i]));
}
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
void displayMetadata(Node root) {
displayMetadata(root, 0);
}
void indent(int level) {
for (int i = 0; i < level; i++)
System.out.print(" ");
}
void displayMetadata(Node node, int level) {
// print open tag of element
indent(level);
//System.out.println("Attributes: " + node.getAttributes().getLength());
System.out.print("<" + node.getNodeName());
NamedNodeMap map = node.getAttributes();
if (map != null) {
// print attribute values
int length = map.getLength();
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
Node attr = map.item(i);
System.out.print(" " + attr.getNodeName() +
"=\"" + attr.getNodeValue() + "\"");
}
}
Node child = node.getFirstChild();
if (child == null) {
// no children, so close element and return
System.out.println("/>");
return;
}
// children, so close current tag
System.out.println(">");
while (child != null) {
// print children recursively
displayMetadata(child, level + 1);
child = child.getNextSibling();
}
// print close tag of element
indent(level);
System.out.println("</" + node.getNodeName() + ">");
}
public byte[] writeCustomData(BufferedImage buffImg, String key, String value) throws Exception {
ImageWriter writer = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("png").next();
ImageWriteParam writeParam = writer.getDefaultWriteParam();
ImageTypeSpecifier typeSpecifier = ImageTypeSpecifier.createFromBufferedImageType(BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
//adding metadata
IIOMetadata metadata = writer.getDefaultImageMetadata(typeSpecifier, writeParam);
IIOMetadataNode textEntry = new IIOMetadataNode("tEXtEntry");
textEntry.setAttribute("keyword", key);
textEntry.setAttribute("value", value);
IIOMetadataNode text = new IIOMetadataNode("tEXt");
text.appendChild(textEntry);
IIOMetadataNode root = new IIOMetadataNode("javax_imageio_png_1.0");
root.appendChild(text);
metadata.mergeTree("javax_imageio_png_1.0", root);
//writing the data
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ImageOutputStream stream = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(baos);
writer.setOutput(stream);
writer.write(metadata, new IIOImage(buffImg, null, metadata), writeParam);
stream.close();
return baos.toByteArray();
}