chore(server): update exiftool and migrate off deprecated method signatures

server/package.json

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
     "class-transformer": "^0.5.1",
     "class-validator": "^0.14.0",
     "cookie-parser": "^1.4.6",
-    "exiftool-vendored": "~26.2.0",
+    "exiftool-vendored": "~27.0.0",
     "fast-glob": "^3.3.2",
     "fluent-ffmpeg": "^2.1.2",
     "geo-tz": "^8.0.0",

server/src/repositories/metadata.repository.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Inject, Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
 import { InjectDataSource, InjectRepository } from '@nestjs/typeorm';
-import { DefaultReadTaskOptions, Tags, exiftool } from 'exiftool-vendored';
+import { DefaultReadTaskOptions, ExifTool, Tags } from 'exiftool-vendored';
 import geotz from 'geo-tz';
 import { DummyValue, GenerateSql } from 'src/decorators';
 import { ExifEntity } from 'src/entities/exif.entity';
@@ -21,39 +21,41 @@ export class MetadataRepository implements IMetadataRepository {
   ) {
     this.logger.setContext(MetadataRepository.name);
   }
+  private exiftool: ExifTool = this.initExiftool();
 
   async teardown() {
-    await exiftool.end();
+    await this.exiftool.end();
+  }
+
+  private initExiftool() {
+    return new ExifTool({
+      defaultVideosToUTC: true,
+      backfillTimezones: true,
+      inferTimezoneFromDatestamps: true,
+      useMWG: true,
+      numericTags: [...DefaultReadTaskOptions.numericTags, 'FocalLength'],
+      /* eslint unicorn/no-array-callback-reference: off, unicorn/no-array-method-this-argument: off */
+      geoTz: (lat, lon) => geotz.find(lat, lon)[0],
+      // Enable exiftool LFS to parse metadata for files larger than 2GB.
+      readArgs: ['-api', 'largefilesupport=1'],
+      writeArgs: ['-api', 'largefilesupport=1', '-overwrite_original'],
+    });
   }
 
   readTags(path: string): Promise<ImmichTags | null> {
-    return exiftool
-      .read(path, undefined, {
-        ...DefaultReadTaskOptions,
-
-        // Enable exiftool LFS to parse metadata for files larger than 2GB.
-        optionalArgs: ['-api', 'largefilesupport=1'],
-        defaultVideosToUTC: true,
-        backfillTimezones: true,
-        inferTimezoneFromDatestamps: true,
-        useMWG: true,
-        numericTags: [...DefaultReadTaskOptions.numericTags, 'FocalLength'],
-        /* eslint unicorn/no-array-callback-reference: off, unicorn/no-array-method-this-argument: off */
-        geoTz: (lat, lon) => geotz.find(lat, lon)[0],
-      })
-      .catch((error) => {
-        this.logger.warn(`Error reading exif data (${path}): ${error}`, error?.stack);
-        return null;
-      }) as Promise<ImmichTags | null>;
+    return this.exiftool.read(path).catch((error) => {
+      this.logger.warn(`Error reading exif data (${path}): ${error}`, error?.stack);
+      return null;
+    }) as Promise<ImmichTags | null>;
   }
 
   extractBinaryTag(path: string, tagName: string): Promise<Buffer> {
-    return exiftool.extractBinaryTagToBuffer(tagName, path);
+    return this.exiftool.extractBinaryTagToBuffer(tagName, path);
   }
 
   async writeTags(path: string, tags: Partial<Tags>): Promise<void> {
     try {
-      await exiftool.write(path, tags, ['-overwrite_original']);
+      await this.exiftool.write(path, tags);
     } catch (error) {
       this.logger.warn(`Error writing exif data (${path}): ${error}`);
     }