+ // Get host adresses
+ struct hostent * pHost = gethostbyname(szHostName);
+
+ for( int i = 0; pHost!= NULL && pHost->h_addr_list[i]!= NULL; i++ )
+ {
+ for( int j = 0; j<pHost->h_length; j++ )
+ {
+ if( j > 0 ) str += ".";
+
+ str += Util::Format("%u",
+ (unsigned int)((unsigned char*)pHost->h_addr_list[i])[j]);
+ }
+ // str now contains one local IP address
+ }
+ }
+ // If an error occur r == -1
+ // Most of the time it will return 127.0.0.1...
+ return str;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup Util
+ * \brief Creates a new UID. As stipulate in the DICOM ref
+ * each time a DICOM image is create it should have
+ * a unique identifier (URI)
+ */
+std::string Util::CreateUniqueUID(const std::string& root)
+{
+ // The code works as follow:
+ // echo "gdcm" | od -b
+ // 0000000 147 144 143 155 012
+ // Therefore we return
+ // radical + 147.144.143.155 + IP + time()
+ std::string radical = root;
+ if( !root.size() ) //anything better ?
+ {
+ radical = "0.0."; // Is this really usefull ?