katana.units.raw.exiftool — Exiftool

Extract metadata with exiftool

This unit will extract metadata file using the exiftool command-line utility. The syntax runs as:

exiftool <target_path>

The unit inherits from katana.unit.FileUnit to ensure the target is a file.

class katana.units.raw.exiftool.Unit(manager: katana.manager.Manager, target: katana.target.Target, keywords=None)

Bases: katana.unit.FileUnit

DEPENDENCIES = ['exiftool']

This unit needs the exiftool command-line tool to run.

GROUPS = ['raw', 'file', 'exiftool']

These are “tags” for a unit. Considering it is a Raw unit, “raw” is included, as well as the tag “file”, and the name of the unit “exiftool”.

PRIORITY = 40

Priority works with 0 being the highest priority, and 100 being the lowest priority. 50 is the default priorty. This unit has a moderate-to-high priority

evaluate(case)

Evaluate the target. Run exiftool on the target and recurse on any newfound information.

Parameters:case – A case returned by enumerate. For this unit, the enumerate function is not used. Returns:None. This function should not return any data.