com.pixelmed.dicom
Class InformationEntity

java.lang.Object
  com.pixelmed.dicom.InformationEntity

All Implemented Interfaces:

Comparable

public class InformationEntity
extends Object
implements Comparable

A class to provide enumerated constants for the entities of the DICOM Information Model.

Used to categorize attributes in the DicomDictionary and in the com.pixelmed.database package.

Field Summary

static InformationEntity	CONCATENATION
static InformationEntity	FRAME
static InformationEntity	INSTANCE
static InformationEntity	PATIENT
static InformationEntity	PROCEDURESTEP
static InformationEntity	SERIES
static InformationEntity	STUDY

Method Summary

int	compareTo(Object ie) Is this information entity higher in the model than the specified information entity ?
static InformationEntity	fromString(String name) Get the information entity corresponding to the string name
int	getValue()
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

PATIENT

public static InformationEntity PATIENT

STUDY

public static InformationEntity STUDY

PROCEDURESTEP

public static InformationEntity PROCEDURESTEP

SERIES

public static InformationEntity SERIES

CONCATENATION

public static InformationEntity CONCATENATION

INSTANCE

public static InformationEntity INSTANCE

FRAME

public static InformationEntity FRAME

Method Detail

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

fromString

public static InformationEntity fromString(String name)

Get the information entity corresponding to the string name

Parameters:

name - a String name, whose case is ignored

Returns:

the information entity if any, otherwise null

getValue

public int getValue()

compareTo

public int compareTo(Object ie)

Is this information entity higher in the model than the specified information entity ?

Specified by:

compareTo in interface Comparable

Parameters:

ie - the information entity with which to compare

Returns:

a -ve value if this information entity higher in the model than the specified information entity