Serial-ATA / Serial-ATA/lofty-rs

Stream picture tags

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enhancement
Dominant language
Rust
Stars
359
Forks
77
Avg merge
12h 54m
Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

Summary

The ability to read the picture tags as a stream for improve performance

API design
let probe = lofty::Probe::open(path);

let tags_reader = probe.into_reader();

// Consumes tags_reader and returns an iterator that skips non-picture tags
let pictures_iterator = tags_reader.pictures();

let first_picture_reader = pictures_iterator.next()?;

let bytes = picture_reader.data; // std::io::Bytes<> iterator
let mime_type = picture_reader.mime_type; // Access other info about the picture

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Research direction

Start by locating Probe::open and the proposed into_reader API, then compare the existing picture-tag parsing path with the requested pictures() iterator. Done means callers can iterate picture tags as readers and access each picture's byte stream and MIME type without loading all picture data at once.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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