View source for OpenIGTLink/ProtocolV2/Type/String

[[OpenIGTLink/ProtocolV2/Index | &lt;&lt; Version 2 Index Page]]

=Summary=
STRING message type is used for transferring a character string. It supports character strings up to 65535 bytes.

=Message Types=
==STRING==

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|-
| align="left" style="background:#e0e0e0;" | Data
| align="left" style="background:#e0e0e0;" | Type
| align="left" style="background:#e0e0e0;" | Description
|-
| align="left" | ENCODING
| align="left" | uint16
| align="left" | Character encoding type as MIBenum value (defined by IANA). Default=3.
|-
| align="left" | LENGTH
| align="left" | uint16
| align="left" | Length of string (bytes)
|-
| align="left" | STRING
| align="left" | uint8[LENGTH]
| align="left" | Byte array of the string
|-
|}


For character encoding, please refer [http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets IANA Character Sets].

US-ASCII (ANSI-X3.4-1968; MIBenum = 3) is strongly recommended.

==GET_STRING==

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|-
| align="left style="background:#e0e0e0;" | Data
| align="left style="background:#e0e0e0;" | Type
| align="left style="background:#e0e0e0;" | Description
|-
|}


==STT_STRING==

N/A

==STP_STRING==

N/A 


==RTS_STRING==

N/A

=Implementations=
The TDATA message type is implemented in the following source code.
<!--
*[http://svn.na-mic.org/NAMICSandBox/trunk/OpenIGTLink/Source/igtlSensorMessage.h igtlSensorMessage.h]
*[http://svn.na-mic.org/NAMICSandBox/trunk/OpenIGTLink/Source/igtlSensorMessage.cxx igtlSensorMessage.cxx]
-->

=Contributors=
Junichi Tokuda

=Comments=