getMetadata() for GridFile

Signed-off-by: Eliot <eliot@10gen.com>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/client/gridfs.cpp b/client/gridfs.cpp
index f4eb0093517..5c444296e36 100644
--- a/client/gridfs.cpp
+++ b/client/gridfs.cpp
@@ -124,6 +124,15 @@ namespace mongo {
         return _client.query( _filesNS.c_str() , o );
     }
 
+    BSONObj GridFile::getMetadata(){
+        BSONElement meta_element = _obj["metadata"];
+        if( meta_element.eoo() ){
+            return BSONObj();
+        }
+
+        return meta_element.embeddedObject();
+    }
+
     Chunk GridFile::getChunk( int n ){
         _exists();
         BSONObjBuilder b;
diff --git a/client/gridfs.h b/client/gridfs.h
index 8f40004132b..2ed198d67e7 100644
--- a/client/gridfs.h
+++ b/client/gridfs.h
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ namespace mongo {
             return _obj["md5"].str();
         }
 
+        BSONObj getMetadata();
+
         int getNumChunks(){
             return (int) ceil( (double)getContentLength() / (double)getChunkSize() );
         }