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Restore Cached Data

The restore_cached_data plugin re-extracts metadata when assigning already cached files, i.e. when the attachment has been retained on validation errors or assigned from a direct upload. In both cases you may want to re-extract metadata on the server side, mainly to prevent tempering, but also in case of direct uploads to obtain metadata that couldn't be extracted on the client side.

plugin :restore_cached_data
photo.image = { "id" => "path/to/image.jpg", "storage" => "cache", "metadata" => {} }
photo.image.metadata #=> { "size" => 4823763, "mime_type" => "image/jpeg", ... }

It uses the refresh_metadata plugin to re-extract metadata.