RE: [HAPI-devel] Getting information from a message

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

That makes sense but where do I find these methods: getFirstName().getValue=
()
The class ca.uhn.hl7v2.model.v24.segment.PID does not contain these methods=
 not are they inherited from the XPN class.
The XPN class has getFamilyName() and getGivenName() but I don't seem to be=
 able to access them. Not sure what I doing wrong.
Even though the XPN object is returned, the other methods are not available=
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tripp, Bryan [mailto:Bry...@uh...]
Sent: July 9, 2003 9:14 AM
To: Waldron, Terry; 'hl7...@li...'
Subject: RE: [HAPI-devel] Getting information from a message


Hi Terry,=20

The call to getPatientName() just returns an XPN object, so to get a
particular field (e.g. first name) you would do something like this:
pid.getPatientName().getFirstName().getValue()  Note also the getValue() at
the end -- this extracts the data String from the ST that is returned by
getFirstName(). =20

Come to think of it, maybe HAPI should be overriding toString(), at least i=
n
datatypes, to produce reasonable values.  I'll make that change if nobody
objects. =20

Bryan=20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Waldron, Terry [mailto:wal...@KG...]
> Sent: July 9, 2003 8:55 AM
> To: hl7...@li...
> Subject: [HAPI-devel] Getting information from a message
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> Hi,
> I'm trying to get information from the PID segment. I'm=20
> obviously doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what.
> This is the code snippet I'm using.
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> 			// Get some patient information from=20
> 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 {
> 				=09
> Log.getInstance().log("patient name: " + pname);
> 				} catch (LogException le) {
> 				=09
> System.err.println("Warning: can't write outbound message to=20
> log file");
> 				}=20
> 		=09
> What shows in the log is: 9-Jul-2003 8:37:21 AM	patient=20
> name: [Lca.uhn.hl7v2.model.v24.datatype.XPN;@143c8b3
> This looks like type information and a pointer to an address.=20
> Am I referencing this wrong? If so how should I be doing this?
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> Thanks,
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> Terry Waldron
> wal...@kg...
> Systems Development
> Kingston General Hospital
> (613)548-2364 x3828
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