A bunch of changes

metadatamanager.py

@@ -155,3 +155,33 @@ class XattrManager:
         except Exception as e:
             raise IOError(f"Could not save xattr '{attr_name}' "
                           "for {file_path}: {e}") from e
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_all_attributes(path):
+        """
+        Gets all extended attributes for a file as a dictionary.
+
+        Args:
+            path (str): The path to the file.
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: A dictionary mapping attribute names to values.
+        """
+        attributes = {}
+        if not path:
+            return attributes
+        try:
+            keys = os.listxattr(path)
+            for key in keys:
+                try:
+                    val = os.getxattr(path, key)
+                    try:
+                        val_str = val.decode('utf-8')
+                    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                        val_str = str(val)
+                    attributes[key] = val_str
+                except (OSError, AttributeError):
+                    pass
+        except (OSError, AttributeError):
+            pass
+        return attributes