-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.
+ */
+list<string> * gdcmDictSet::GetPubDictTagNames(void) {
+ list<string> * Result = new list<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.
+ * @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.
+ */
+map<string, list<string> > * gdcmDictSet::GetPubDictTagNamesByCategory(void) {
+ map<string, list<string> > * Result = new map<string, list<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/".
+ */
+string gdcmDictSet::BuildDictPath(void) {
+ 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:",