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Adding metadata properties is the most sophisticated feature of the GroupDocs.Metadata search engine. When you call the addProperties method it examines all available metadata packages and tries to pick up a known property that would satisfy the specified predicate. Note that the property will be added to metadata packages that fit the following criteria:
- Only existing metadata packages will be affected. No new packages are added during this operation
- There should be a known metadata property in the package structure that fits the search condition but is actually missing in the package. All properties supported by a certain package are usually defined in the specification of a particular metadata standard
advanced_usage.AddingMetadata
File folder = new File(Constants.InputPath);
for (File file : folder.listFiles()) {
try (Metadata metadata = new Metadata(file.getAbsolutePath())) {
if (metadata.getFileFormat() != FileFormat.Unknown && !metadata.getDocumentInfo().isEncrypted()) {
System.out.println();
System.out.println(file.getName());
// Add a property containing the file last printing date if it's missing
// Note that the property will be added to metadata packages that satisfy the following criteria:
// 1) Only existing metadata packages will be affected. No new packages are added during this operation
// 2) There should be a known metadata property in the package structure that fits the search condition but is actually missing in the package.
// All properties supported by a certain package are usually defined in the specification of a particular metadata standard
int affected = metadata.addProperties(new ContainsTagSpecification(Tags.getTime().getPrinted()), new PropertyValue(new Date()));
System.out.println(String.format("Affected properties: %s", affected));
metadata.save(Constants.OutputPath + "output." + FilenameUtils.getExtension(file.getName()));
}
}
}
You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:
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