+
+/**
+ * \ingroup gdcmDict
+ * \brief removes an already existing Dicom Dictionary Entry,
+ * identified by its Tag
+ * @param key (group|element)
+ * @return false if Dicom Dictionary Entry doesn't exist
+ */
+bool gdcmDict::RemoveEntry(TagKey key)
+{
+ if(KeyHt.count(key) == 1)
+ {
+ gdcmDictEntry* EntryToDelete = KeyHt.find(key)->second;
+
+ if ( EntryToDelete )
+ {
+ NameHt.erase(EntryToDelete->GetName());
+ delete EntryToDelete;
+ }
+
+ KeyHt.erase(key);
+ return (true);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ dbg.Verbose(1, "gdcmDict::RemoveEntry unfound entry", key.c_str());
+ return (false);
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup gdcmDict
+ * \brief removes an already existing Dicom Dictionary Entry,
+ * identified by its group,element number
+ * @param group Dicom group number of the Dicom Element
+ * @param element Dicom element number of the Dicom Element
+ * @return false if Dicom Dictionary Entry doesn't exist
+ */
+bool gdcmDict::RemoveEntry (guint16 group, guint16 element) {
+ return( RemoveEntry(gdcmDictEntry::TranslateToKey(group, element)) );
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup gdcmDict
+ * \brief Get the dictionnary entry identified by it's name.
+ * @param name element of the ElVal to modify
+ * \warning : NEVER use it !
+ * the 'name' IS NOT an identifier within the Dicom Dicom Dictionary
+ * the name MAY CHANGE between two versions !
+ * @return the corresponding dictionnary entry when existing, NULL otherwise
+ */
+gdcmDictEntry *gdcmDict::GetDictEntryByName(TagName name) {
+ if ( ! NameHt.count(name))
+ return NULL;
+ return NameHt.find(name)->second;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup gdcmDict
+ * \brief Get the dictionnary entry identified by a given tag (group,element)
+ * @param group group of the entry to be found
+ * @param element element of the entry to be found
+ * @return the corresponding dictionnary entry when existing, NULL otherwise
+ */
+gdcmDictEntry *gdcmDict::GetDictEntryByNumber(guint16 group, guint16 element) {
+ TagKey key = gdcmDictEntry::TranslateToKey(group, element);
+ if ( ! KeyHt.count(key))
+ return NULL;
+ return KeyHt.find(key)->second;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup gdcmDict
+ * \brief Consider all the entries of the public dicom dictionnary.
+ * Build all list of all the tag names of all those entries.
+ * \sa gdcmDictSet::GetPubDictTagNamesByCategory
+ * @return A list of all entries of the public dicom dictionnary.
+ */
+std::list<std::string> *gdcmDict::GetDictEntryNames(void)
+{
+ std::list<std::string> *Result = new std::list<std::string>;
+ for (TagKeyHT::iterator tag = KeyHt.begin(); tag != KeyHt.end(); ++tag)
+ {
+ Result->push_back( tag->second->GetName() );
+ }
+ return Result;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup gdcmDict
+ * \brief Consider all the entries of the public dicom dictionnary.
+ * Build an hashtable whose keys are the names of the groups
+ * (fourth field in each line of dictionary) and whose corresponding
+ * values are lists of all the dictionnary entries among that
+ * group. Note that apparently the Dicom standard doesn't explicitely
+ * define a name (as a string) for each group.
+ * A typical usage of this method would be to enable a dynamic
+ * configuration of a Dicom file browser: the admin/user can
+ * select in the interface which Dicom tags should be displayed.
+ * \warning Dicom *doesn't* define any name for any 'categorie'
+ * (the dictionnary fourth field was formerly NIH defined
+ * - and no longer he is-
+ * and will be removed when Dicom provides us a text file
+ * with the 'official' Dictionnary, that would be more friendly
+ * than asking us to perform a line by line check of the dictionnary
+ * at the beginning of each year to -try to- guess the changes)
+ * Therefore : please NEVER use that fourth field :-(
+ *
+ * @return An hashtable: whose keys are the names of the groups and whose
+ * corresponding values are lists of all the dictionnary entries
+ * among that group.
+ */
+std::map<std::string, std::list<std::string> > *gdcmDict::GetDictEntryNamesByCategory(void)
+{
+ std::map<std::string, std::list<std::string> > *Result = new std::map<std::string, std::list<std::string> >;
+
+ for (TagKeyHT::iterator tag = KeyHt.begin(); tag != KeyHt.end(); ++tag)
+ {
+ (*Result)[tag->second->GetFourth()].push_back(tag->second->GetName());
+ }
+ return Result;
+}
+
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Protected
+
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Private
+
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------