[HAPI-devel] Parsing an ER7 delimited string into a HAPI message results in incorrect data

[Suranga K. <sur...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm using HAPI 0.5 jar to try and parse a string (ER7 format) to an ORUR01
object.

The string i'm using is,

MSH|^~\&|FORMENTRY|LOCAL|HL7LISTENER|LOCAL|20080226102656||ORU^R01|JqnfhKKtouEz8kzTk6Zo|P|2.5|1||||||||16^LOCAL.FORMID
PID|||3^^^^||John3^Doe^||
PV1|1|O|1^Unknown Location||||1^Super User
(1-8)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||20080212|||||||V
ORC|RE||||||||20080226102537|1^Super User
OBR|1|||1238^MEDICAL RECORD OBSERVATIONS^99DCT
OBX|1|NM|5497^CD4, BY FACS^99DCT||450|||||||||20080206
OBX|2|DT|5096^RETURN VISIT DATE^99DCT||20080229|||||||||2008021

I parse this string into a ORUR01 message object using GenericParser as
follows,

Message message = parser.parse(hl7_String);

The parsing completes successfully, but for some reason, HAPI is unable to
identify the components of the newly created hl7 object. For example, the
hl7 string (shown above) has a pid.3 segment, but i'm unable to capture
them using the pid.getPatientIdentifierList() method. The same is true of
the obx.getObservationIdentifier() method.
Can someone please advise me as to what i'm doing wrong here ? I also tried
with PipeParser, but i'm afraid that the results are the same.

PS: I tried the same with an xml delimited message, and it works perfectly
fine....

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Best Regards,
Suranga