Setting to disable metadata read out

[beniw]

Hello everyone

I like to place a feature request for the handling of metadata on images. It would be nice if we could disable the metadata read out on files in the settings.

We have people who get confused about the pre-filled tags and the description and would rather not have it there.

Also we recently experienced some issues with weird exif/metadata on images which only happen in certain cases. Like on a local machine the upload works fine but on the server installation the same image crashes the directus container. The upload of the same image without metadata works perfectly fine on the server.

I first tried to fix this over the files.upload hook but as there is no before modifier this did not really work out for me.

kind regards

[rijkvanzanten]

What would be the ideal way to configure this? I reckon you might want to be able to pick and choose what meta flags to extract, while disabling others. Maybe a STORAGE_EXTRACT_META flag could do it, where it would allow a CSV of directus_files fields to try to extract. STORAGE_EXTRACT_META="*" would be the default (that's the current behavior), and then you could set it to STORAGE_EXTRACT_META="tags,title" to extract specific values, and STORAGE_EXTRACT_META="false" to disable it completely 🤔

[beniw]

This is actually a really smart idea.
I was thinking about a flag to disable them all together but to make them configurable would be even better. 👍

[rijkvanzanten]

Wanna open a PR for this change? I think it might be as simple as adding an additional check against that env var in these three blocks 🤔

directus/api/src/services/files.ts

Lines 99 to 107 in 6ea29d8

	if (payload.metadata?.iptc?.Headline) {
	payload.title = payload.metadata.iptc.Headline;
	}
	if (!payload.description && payload.metadata?.iptc?.Caption) {
	payload.description = payload.metadata.iptc.Caption;
	}
	if (payload.metadata?.iptc?.Keywords) {
	payload.tags = payload.metadata.iptc.Keywords;
	}

[beniw]

I will try. Not sure when I'll have time for it but it sure would be nice to contribute 😃

[rijkvanzanten]

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