-gdcmDictSet::gdcmDictSet(void) {
- SetDictPath();
- if (! LoadDicomV3Dict())
- return;
-}
-
-void gdcmDictSet::SetDictPath(void) {
- const char* EnvPath = (char*)0;
- EnvPath = getenv("GDCM_DICT_PATH");
- if (EnvPath && (strlen(EnvPath) != 0)) {
- DictPath = EnvPath;
- if (DictPath[DictPath.length() -1] != '/' )
- DictPath += '/';
- dbg.Verbose(1, "gdcmDictSet::SetDictPath:",
+/**
+ * \ingroup gdcmDictSet
+ * \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> * gdcmDictSet::GetPubDictTagNames(void) {
+ std::list<std::string> * Result = new std::list<std::string>;
+ TagKeyHT entries = GetDefaultPubDict()->GetEntries();
+
+ for (TagKeyHT::iterator tag = entries.begin(); tag != entries.end(); ++tag){
+ Result->push_back( tag->second->GetName() );
+ }
+ return Result;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup gdcmDictSet
+ * \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 od thhe 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> > * gdcmDictSet::GetPubDictTagNamesByCategory(void) {
+ std::map<std::string, std::list<std::string> > * Result = new std::map<std::string, std::list<std::string> >;
+ TagKeyHT entries = GetDefaultPubDict()->GetEntries();
+
+ for (TagKeyHT::iterator tag = entries.begin(); tag != entries.end(); ++tag){
+ (*Result)[tag->second->GetFourth()].push_back(tag->second->GetName());
+ }
+ return Result;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup gdcmDictSet
+ * \brief Obtain from the GDCM_DICT_PATH environnement variable the
+ * path to directory containing the dictionnaries. When
+ * the environnement variable is absent the path is defaulted
+ * to "../Dicts/".
+ */
+std::string gdcmDictSet::BuildDictPath(void) {
+ std::string ResultPath;
+ const char* EnvPath = (char*)0;
+ EnvPath = getenv("GDCM_DICT_PATH");
+ if (EnvPath && (strlen(EnvPath) != 0)) {
+ ResultPath = EnvPath;
+ if (ResultPath[ResultPath.length() -1] != '/' )
+ ResultPath += '/';
+ dbg.Verbose(1, "gdcmDictSet::BuildDictPath:",