[HAPI-devel] Getting information from a message

[Waldron, T. <wal...@KG...>]

Hi,
I'm trying to get information from the PID segment. I'm obviously doing som=
ething wrong, but I'm not sure what.
This is the code snippet I'm using.

			// Get some patient information from the PID segment
			PID pid =3D (PID)in.get("PID");
			String pname =3D pid.getPatientName().toString();
			//Write the patient name to a log file
			try {
					Log.getInstance().log("patient name: " + pname);
				} catch (LogException le) {
					System.err.println("Warning: can't write outbound message to log file"=
);
				}=20
		=09
What shows in the log is: 9-Jul-2003 8:37:21 AM	patient name: [Lca.uhn.hl7v=
2.model.v24.datatype.XPN;@143c8b3
This looks like type information and a pointer to an address. Am I referenc=
ing this wrong? If so how should I be doing this?

Thanks,

Terry Waldron
wal...@kg...
Systems Development
Kingston General Hospital
(613)548-2364 x3828