[gdal-dev] gdalinfo: fix metadata output

[Even Rouault]

Christian,

I guess you are talking about metadata in domains other than the default and
IMAGE_STRUCTURE metadata domains ?
With which driver did you experiment that issue ?

Would you mind attaching your patch as an attachment to a ticket in Trac (
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/newticket ) ? For that issue, and for your other
email as well.

Best regards,

Even

> Hello,
>
> I tried getting a driver to return some useful metadata from the files,
> but gdalinfo never displayed any of it. As it turns out, the culprit was
> gdalinfo. It will never report metadata from the bands, even if
> explicitely requested in the command line.
>
> So I set out to rewrite the metadata handling. It will now use the same
> function to display both dataset metadata and band metadata. While I was
> at it, I fixed a violation of the DRY-principle, introducing a small
> helper function to get a metadata list, loop over it and output everything.
>
>
> Since there's probably someone out there with a script that parses the
> output of gdalinfo, I was careful not to introduce any functional
> changes in the output. The only visible difference should be that band
> metadata is actually printed.
>
>
> Patch is attached for review and/or committing.
>
>
> --
> Christian Authmann
> Philipps-Universität Marburg
> Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik
> AG Datenbanksysteme
> Hans-Meerwein-Straße
> D-35032 Marburg
>