org.dicom4j.data.elements
Class DateElement

java.lang.Object
  org.dicom4j.data.elements.support.DataElement
      org.dicom4j.data.elements.support.StringElement
          org.dicom4j.data.elements.DateElement

public class DateElement
extends StringElement

Date (DA) element

Author:

Laurent Lecomte

Constructor Summary

DateElement(DicomTag aDicomTag)
Creates an empty element

DateElement(DicomTag aDicomTag, long aLength, DicomInputStream aStream)
Read an attribute from an input stream.

Method Summary

String	format() retrun a format Date depending on the current Locale
ValueRepresentation	getValueRepresentation() Return the value representation of this data element

Methods inherited from class org.dicom4j.data.elements.support.StringElement

addValue, clear, getPaddedVL, getStringValues, getValueLength, getValueMultiplicity, read, setValue, toString, write

Methods inherited from class org.dicom4j.data.elements.support.DataElement

addValue, addValue, addValue, addValue, addValue, addValue, getByteValues, getDelimitedStringValues, getDelimitedStringValues, getDelimitedStringValuesOrDefault, getDelimitedStringValuesOrDefault, getDelimitedStringValuesOrDefault, getDelimitedStringValuesOrEmptyString, getDelimitedStringValuesOrEmptyString, getDelimitedStringValuesOrEmptyString, getDelimitedStringValuesOrEmptyString, getDelimitedStringValuesOrNull, getDelimitedStringValuesOrNull, getDelimitedStringValuesOrNull, getDelimitedStringValuesOrNull, getDoubleValues, getDoubleValues, getFloatValues, getIntegerValues, getIntegerValues, getLongValues, getLongValues, getName, getOriginalStringValues, getShortValues, getSingleDoubleValueOrDefault, getSingleDoubleValueOrDefault, getSingleIntegerValue, getSingleIntegerValue, getSingleIntegerValue, getSingleIntegerValueOrDefault, getSingleLongValueOrDefault, getSingleLongValueOrDefault, getSingleStringValue, getSingleStringValue, getSingleStringValueOrDefault, getSingleStringValueOrDefault, getSingleStringValueOrDefault, getSingleStringValueOrEmptyString, getSingleStringValueOrEmptyString, getSingleStringValueOrEmptyString, getSingleStringValueOrNull, getSingleStringValueOrNull, getSingleStringValueOrNull, getSingleStringValueOrNull, getStringValues, getStringValues, getStringValues, getTag, isAvailableAsString, isGroupLength, isValid, read, removeValues, setValues, setValues, setValues

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DateElement

public DateElement(DicomTag aDicomTag)

Creates an empty element

Parameters:

aDicomTag - the tag of the element

DateElement

public DateElement(DicomTag aDicomTag,
                   long aLength,
                   DicomInputStream aStream)
            throws IOException,
                   DicomException

Read an attribute from an input stream.

Parameters:

aDicomTag - the tag of the element

aLength - the value length of the attribute

aStream - the input stream

Throws:

IOException

DicomException

Method Detail

format

public String format()

retrun a format Date depending on the current Locale

Returns:

getValueRepresentation

public ValueRepresentation getValueRepresentation()

Return the value representation of this data element

Specified by:

getValueRepresentation in class DataElement

Returns:

the value representation (PN)