/*=========================================================================

  Program: GDCM (Grassroots DICOM). A DICOM library

  Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mathieu Malaterre
  All rights reserved.
  See Copyright.txt or http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/Copyright.html for details.

     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notice for more information.

=========================================================================*/
/*
 * This example is ... guess what this is for :)
 */

#include "gdcmReader.h"
#include "gdcmWriter.h"
#include "gdcmAttribute.h"

#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  if( argc < 3 )
    {
    std::cerr << argv[0] << " input.dcm output.dcm" << std::endl;
    return 1;
    }
  const char *filename = argv[1];
  const char *outfilename = argv[2];

  // Instanciate the reader:
  gdcm::Reader reader;
  reader.SetFileName( filename );
  if( !reader.Read() )
    {
    std::cerr << "Could not read: " << filename << std::endl;
    return 1;
    }

  // If we reach here, we know for sure only 1 thing:
  // It is a valid DICOM file (potentially an old ACR-NEMA 1.0/2.0 file)
  // (Maybe, it's NOT a Dicom image -could be a DICOMDIR, a RTSTRUCT, etc-)

  // The output of gdcm::Reader is a gdcm::File
  gdcm::File &file = reader.GetFile();

  // the dataset is the the set of element we are interested in:
  gdcm::DataSet &ds = file.GetDataSet();

  // Contruct a static(*) type for Image Comments :
  gdcm::Attribute<0x0020,0x4000> imagecomments;
  imagecomments.SetValue( "Hello, World !" );

  // Now replace the Image Comments from the dataset with our:
  ds.Replace( imagecomments.GetAsDataElement() );

  // Write the modified DataSet back to disk
  gdcm::Writer writer;
  writer.CheckFileMetaInformationOff(); // Do not attempt to reconstruct the file meta to preserve the file
                                        // as close to the original as possible.
  writer.SetFileName( outfilename );
  writer.SetFile( file );
  if( !writer.Write() )
    {
    std::cerr << "Could not write: " << outfilename << std::endl;
    return 1;
    }

  return 0;
}

/*
 * (*) static type, means that extra DICOM information VR & VM are computed at compilation time.
 * The compiler is deducing those values from the template arguments of the class.
 */