org.dicom4j.data.elements
Class ShortString

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

public class ShortString
extends StringElement

Concrete class specializing DataElement for Short String (SH) attributes.

Though an instance of this class may be created using its constructors, there is also a factory class, AttributeFactory.

Author:

dclunie

See Also:

DataElement, DataElementFactory

Constructor Summary

ShortString(DicomTag t)
Construct an (empty) attribute.

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

Method Summary

ValueRepresentation	getValueRepresentation() Return the ValueRepresentation of this element
byte[]	getVR() Get the value representation of this attribute (SH).

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

ShortString

public ShortString(DicomTag t)

Construct an (empty) attribute.

Parameters:

t - the tag of the attribute

ShortString

public ShortString(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()

Description copied from class: DataElement

Return the ValueRepresentation of this element

Specified by:

getValueRepresentation in class DataElement

Returns:

the ValueRepresentation

getVR

public byte[] getVR()

Get the value representation of this attribute (SH).

Returns:

'S','H' in ASCII as a two byte array; see