One could potentially change all the public getters in non-final classes in
javax.imageio.plugins.tiff to be final as in
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8165981/webrev.01/
or go even further and additionally refactor TIFFDirectory to be an interface
implemented by the internal TIFFIFD class. In
It seems that there might be in effect three scenarios worth considering:
A) Ignore all metadata (ignoreMetadata [1] is true)
No metadata would be read except that required to read the image itself. This
is related to another issue [2]. It is debatable whether any such essential
metadata should
