pynetdicom.pdu_primitives.MaximumLengthNotification¶

class pynetdicom.pdu_primitives.MaximumLengthNotification[source]¶

A representation of a Maximum Length Negotiation primitive.

The maximum length notification allows communicating AEs to limit the size of the data for each P-DATA indication. This notification is required for all DICOM v3.0 conforming implementations.

This User Information item is required during association negotiation and there must only be a single MaximumLengthNotification item.

References

DICOM Standard, Part 7, Annex D.3.3.1
DICOM Standard, Part 8, Annex D.1

__init__() → None[source]¶

Methods

`__init__`()
`from_primitive`()	Convert the primitive to a PDU item ready to be encoded.

Attributes

maximum_length_received

Get or set the Maximum Length Received using int.

from_primitive() → MaximumLengthSubItem[source]¶

Convert the primitive to a PDU item ready to be encoded.

Returns: item
Return type: pdu_items.MaximumLengthSubItem

property maximum_length_received: int¶

Get or set the Maximum Length Received using int.

Parameters

val (int) – The maximum length of each P-DATA in bytes, must be equal to or greater than 0. A value of 0 indicates unlimited length (31682 bytes default).

Raises

ValueError – If maximum_length_received is negative
TypeError – If maximum_length_received is not an int