How to use

deleteRecord

method

in

org.dcm4che3.media.DicomDirWriter

  private boolean purge(Attributes rec, int[] count) throws IOException {
    boolean purge = true;
    while (rec != null) {
      if (purge(findLowerDirectoryRecordInUse(rec, false), count)
          && !rec.containsValue(Tag.ReferencedFileID)) {
        deleteRecord(rec);
        count[0]++;
      } else
        purge = false;
      rec = readNextDirectoryRecord(rec);
    }
    return purge;
  }
}

public synchronized boolean deleteRecord(Attributes rec)
    throws IOException {
  if (rec.getInt(Tag.RecordInUseFlag, 0) == INACTIVE)
    return false; // already disabled
  for (Attributes lowerRec = readLowerDirectoryRecord(rec);
      lowerRec != null; 
      lowerRec = readNextDirectoryRecord(lowerRec))
    deleteRecord(lowerRec);
  rec.setInt(Tag.RecordInUseFlag, VR.US, INACTIVE);
  markAsDirty(rec);
  return true;
}

  return 0;
out.deleteRecord(instRec);
System.out.print('x');
return 1;

  return 0;
out.deleteRecord(instRec);
System.out.print('x');
return 1;