org.dicom4j.data.elements
Class PersonName

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

public class PersonName
extends StringElement

Person Name (PN) DataElement

Since:

Alpha 0.0.0

Author:

Laurent Lecomte

Constructor Summary

PersonName(DicomTag aTag)
Creates an empty element

PersonName(DicomTag t, SpecificCharacterSet specificCharacterSet)
Construct an (empty) attribute.

Method Summary

ValueRepresentation	getValueRepresentation() Return the value representation of this data element
byte[]	getVR() Get the value representation of this attribute (PN).
void	setValue(String aValue) Read an attribute from an input stream.

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

addValue, clear, getPaddedVL, getStringValues, getValueLength, getValueMultiplicity, read, 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

PersonName

public PersonName(DicomTag aTag)

Creates an empty element

Parameters:

aTag - the tag of the element

PersonName

public PersonName(DicomTag t,
                  SpecificCharacterSet specificCharacterSet)

Construct an (empty) attribute.

Parameters:

t - the tag of the attribute

specificCharacterSet - the character set to be used for the text

Method Detail

getValueRepresentation

public ValueRepresentation getValueRepresentation()

Return the value representation of this data element

Specified by:

getValueRepresentation in class DataElement

Returns:

the value representation (PN)

getVR

public byte[] getVR()

Get the value representation of this attribute (PN).

Returns:

'P','N' in ASCII as a two byte array; see

setValue

public void setValue(String aValue)

Read an attribute from an input stream.

Overrides:

setValue in class StringElement

Parameters:

t - the tag of the attribute

vl - the value length of the attribute

i - the input stream

specificCharacterSet - the character set to be used for the text

Throws:

IOException

DicomException