Copying image and maintain orientation?

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Edit It turns out that the 2nd snippet is actually working but the images in question still show incorrectly in my IDE (IntelliJ IDEA) for some reason.

I am trying read an image, place a watermark and save it in a different folder and the below code does a good job, but it randomly orientates my images.

    try {
        final Image image = ImageIO.read(file);
        int w = ((BufferedImage) image).getWidth();
        int h = ((BufferedImage) image).getHeight();

        final BufferedImage finalImage = 
            new BufferedImage(w, h, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);

        //Graphics2D g = finalImage.createGraphics();
        Graphics2D g = (Graphics2D) finalImage.getGraphics();
        g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, null);
        g.drawImage(watermark, 0, 0, null);
        g.dispose();

        File outputFile = new File("watermarked/" + folderName + "/" + file.getName());
        outputFile.mkdirs();

        ImageIO.write(finalImage, "jpg", outputFile);


    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO: notify client
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

After some reading I learned that ImageIO.read(...) does not maintain orientation or other "metadata" of the image it is processing. I also read about using the ImageReader to extract the metadata. According to the docs, using ImageReader.readall() should include the metadata in the returned IIOImage but I still end up with some of my images upside down. The below code demonstrates the copying without adding a watermark.

    File out = new File("watermarked/" + folderName + "/" + file.getName());
    out.getParentFile().mkdirs();

    ImageInputStream input = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(file);
    ImageOutputStream output = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(out);

    Iterator readers = ImageIO.getImageReaders(input);
    ImageReader reader = readers.next();
    reader.setInput(input);

    IIOImage image = reader.readAll(0, null);
    // Should not be needed since readAll should already take care of it.
    IIOMetadata metadata = reader.getImageMetadata(0);
    image.setMetadata(metadata);

    ImageWriter writer = ImageIO.getImageWriter(reader);
    writer.setOutput(output);
    writer.write(image);


    System.out.println(writer.canReplaceImageMetadata(0)); // Returns false
    writer.replaceImageMetadata(0, metadata); // Results in a "Unsupported write variant" error.

Both code snippets reside in a method that get passed a folderName as a string and the actual image file.

Edit

The above snippet works and the issue is something else. In my windows folder all my images made with a Galaxy S8 show in the correct orientation. But when I copy them to my project and open them in IntelliJ IDEA some are oriented differently. So I added sanselan as a dependency to get more insight in the meta data of the images and the images that get a different orientation in the IDE do indeed show a different orientation in the metadata. But why aren't they oriented like that in the windows folder, am I missing a metadata field or is windows storing additional data somewhere outside the image metadata?

Copying image and maintain orientation?

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