file_data 5.2.1

For common metadata the FileInfo class provides methods names after the metadata items taking a filename. As an example, to get the origin date of a file you would call FileData::FileInfo.origin_date(filename). Advanced apis are provided via specific classes for each metadata type. For example, Exif for exif data and Mpeg4 for mpeg4 data. These can be used to improve the performance of gathering multiple metadata values from a file