com.pixelmed.dicom

Class DicomStreamCopier

java.lang.Object

com.pixelmed.dicom.DicomStreamCopier

public class DicomStreamCopier
extends java.lang.Object

A class to copy DICOM attributes from anm input stream to an output stream, converting the encoding of the attributes between transfer syntaxes if necessary.

See Also:

DicomInputStream, DicomOutputStream

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
DicomStreamCopier(DicomInputStream i, DicomOutputStream o) Copy a dicom input stream to a dicom output stream, using any meta information header if present in input, but not copying it.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	main(java.lang.String[] arg) Copy one file to another parsing and recreating the DICOM attributes using the specified transfer syntaxes.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DicomStreamCopier

public DicomStreamCopier(DicomInputStream i,
                         DicomOutputStream o)
                  throws DicomException,
                         java.io.IOException

Copy a dicom input stream to a dicom output stream, using any meta information header if present in input, but not copying it.

Implements the CP 1066 proposal to handle values too long to fit in Explicit VR by writing a UN rather than the actual VR.

Parameters:

i - the input stream

o - the output stream, which is closed after the copy is done

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an I/O error occurs

DicomException - if error in DICOM encoding

Method Detail

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] arg)

Copy one file to another parsing and recreating the DICOM attributes using the specified transfer syntaxes.

Parameters:

arg - four arguments, the input transfer syntax uid (must be zero length if metaheader present), the input filename, the output transfer syntax uid and the output filename