Re: [HAPI-devel] Unable to inspect gender and birthdate in Patient

[Martin F. <mar...@po...>]

Hi Russell,

You pasted some code, but I don't see a direct relationship with HAPI.

What class is 'patient'? If it isn't ca.uhn.... something, then i don't 
think anyone here can help you.

Wbr
Martin

On 13-06-2023 20:53, Russell Bateman wrote:
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> In the code below, I have an incoming Patient which has all the fields 
> that interest me filled in (see debugger image, but if it doesn't come 
> through, it shows that patient is filled out for name, gender, 
> birthdate and address).
>
> However, when I attempt to inspect *gender* and *birthdate*, these are 
> *null* despite the API telling me they exist (which, of course, they 
> do--see attached image). Note that I create a new Patient, named 
> worthy, and experimentation demonstrates that my code below copies the 
> name and the address successfully to worthy. It's just trying to copy 
> gender and birthdate that result in null. If I stop at the lines with 
> *******, patient.getGender() and patient.getBirthDate() return null.
>
> There must be some very fundamental bit of understanding of which I'm 
> completely ignorant.
>
>   {
>     worthy = new Patient();
>
>     // name
>     if( !patient.hasName() )
>       patientTooThin( "name" );
>     HumanName          humanName = patient.getNameFirstRep();
>     List< StringType > givens    = humanName.getGiven();
>     String             family    = humanName.getFamily();
>     String             first = null, middle = null;
>     for( StringType given : givens )
>     {
>       if( isNull( first ) )
>         first = given.toString();
>       else if( isNull( middle ) )
>         middle = given.toString();
>       else
>         break;
>     }
>
>     if( isNull( family ) || isNull( first ) )
>       patientTooThin( "first or last name" );
>
>     worthy.setName( Collections.singletonList( humanName ) );
>
>     // gender  *************
>     if( !patient.hasGender() )
>       patientTooThin( "gender" );
>
>     worthy.setGender( patient.getGender() );   // ***************
>
>     // birthDate
>     if( !patient.hasBirthDate() )
>       patientTooThin( "birth date" );
>
>     worthy.setBirthDate( patient.getBirthDate() );  // ***************
>
>     // address
>     if( !patient.hasAddress() )
>       patientTooThin( "address" );
>
>     worthy.setAddress( Collections.singletonList( 
> patient.getAddressFirstRep() ) );
>   }
>
>
>
>
>
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