[Insight-developers] GDCMImageIO::CanWriteFile()

[Miller, James V (Research)]

GDCMImageIO::CanWriteFile() pretty much always returns "true".  Thus, when you enable GDCM, you can ONLY write DICOM files.  You loose the ability to write PNG, Meta, ...

I'd like to change GDCMImageIO::CanWriteFile() to trigger off an extension.  While DICOM files do not have to have an extension, I'd like DICOM files written by ITK to have an extension. This will make it consistent with the rest of the toolkit where file formats trigger off extensions. I'd like to collect suitable extensions.  I like

.dcm

Any others?

Does anyone forsee any issues with doing this?

Jim Miller 
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