/// <summary>
/// Check if the contents of the DicomAttributeCollection is identical to another DicomAttributeCollection instance.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// This method compares the contents of two attribute collections to see if they are equal. The method
/// will step through each of the tags within the collection, and compare them to see if they are equal. The
/// method will also recurse into sequence attributes to be sure they are equal.</para>
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="obj">The object to compare to.</param>
/// <param name="comparisonResults">A list of <see cref="DicomAttributeComparisonResult"/> describing why the objects are not equal.</param>
/// <returns>true if the collections are equal.</returns>
public bool Equals(object obj, ref List <DicomAttributeComparisonResult> comparisonResults)
{
var a = obj as DicomFile;
if (a == null)
{
var result = new DicomAttributeComparisonResult
{
ResultType = ComparisonResultType.InvalidType,
Details =
String.Format("Comparison object is invalid type: {0}",
obj.GetType())
};
comparisonResults.Add(result);
return(false);
}
if (!MetaInfo.Equals(a.MetaInfo, ref comparisonResults))
{
return(false);
}
if (!DataSet.Equals(a.DataSet, ref comparisonResults))
{
return(false);
}
return(true);
}
