Program: gdcm
Module: $RCSfile: gdcmDocEntrySet.h,v $
Language: C++
- Date: $Date: 2004/08/01 03:20:23 $
- Version: $Revision: 1.14 $
+ Date: $Date: 2004/09/16 19:21:57 $
+ Version: $Revision: 1.18 $
Copyright (c) CREATIS (Centre de Recherche et d'Applications en Traitement de
l'Image). All rights reserved. See Doc/License.txt or
#include "gdcmException.h"
#include "gdcmDocEntry.h"
+typedef std::string gdcmBaseTagKey;
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+/**
+ * \ref gdcmDocEntrySet is an abstract base class for \ref gdcmElementSet
+ * and \ref gdcmSQItem which are both containers for gdcmDocEntries.
+ * \ref gdcmElementSet is based on the STL map<> container
+ * (see \ref gdcmElementSet::TagHT), as opposed to \ref gdcmSQItem
+ * which is based on an STL list container (see \ref gdcmSQItem::docEntries).
+ * Since the syntax for adding a new element to a map<> or a list<>
+ * differ, \ref gdcmDocEntrySet is designed as an adapter to unify the
+ * interfaces of \ref gdcmDocEntrySet and \ref gdcmElementSet.
+ * As an illustration of this design, please refer to the implementation
+ * of \ref AddEntry (or any pure virtual method) in both derived classes.
+ * This adapter unification of interfaces enables the parsing of a
+ * DICOM header containing (optionaly heavily nested) sequences to be
+ * written recursively [see \ref gdcmDocument::ParseDES
+ * which calls \ref gdcmDocument::ParseSQ, which in turns calls
+ * \ref gdcmDocument::ParseDES ].
+ *
+ * \note Developpers should strongly resist to the temptation of adding
+ * members to this class since this class is designed as an adapter
+ * in the form of an abstract base class.
+ */
class GDCM_EXPORT gdcmDocEntrySet
{
public:
- gdcmDocEntrySet(int depth = 0);
- virtual ~gdcmDocEntrySet();
+ gdcmDocEntrySet() {}
+ virtual ~gdcmDocEntrySet() {}
/// \brief adds any type of entry to the entry set (pure vitual)
virtual bool AddEntry(gdcmDocEntry *Entry) = 0; // pure virtual
/// \brief write any type of entry to the entry set
virtual void Write (FILE *fp, FileType filetype) = 0;// pure virtual
- /// \brief Gets the depth level of a Dicom Header Entry embedded in a
- /// SeQuence
- int GetDepthLevel() { return SQDepthLevel; }
-
- /// \brief Sets the depth level of a Dicom Header Entry embedded in a
- /// SeQuence
- void SetDepthLevel(int depth) { SQDepthLevel = depth; }
-
virtual gdcmDocEntry* GetDocEntryByNumber(uint16_t group,
uint16_t element) = 0;
gdcmDocEntry *GetDocEntryByName(std::string const & name);
uint16_t element);
gdcmDocEntry* NewDocEntryByNumber(uint16_t group,
uint16_t element);
+ gdcmDocEntry* NewDocEntryByNumber(uint16_t group,
+ uint16_t element,
+ std::string const & VR);
gdcmDocEntry* NewDocEntryByName (std::string const & name);
+ gdcmSeqEntry* NewSeqEntryByNumber(uint16_t group,
+ uint16_t element);
// DictEntry related utilities
gdcmDictEntry *GetDictEntryByName (std::string const & name);
gdcmDictEntry *GetDictEntryByNumber(uint16_t, uint16_t);
- /// Gives the depth level of the element set inside SeQuences
- int SQDepthLevel;
-private:
};