[HAPI-devel] How to set the type for a Varies using Terser?

[Ackley, K. A <kei...@ed...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to use Terser to build an MFN_M01 message containing a coded
entity in MFE-4. The following shows the desired HL7 for the MFE segment:

MFE^MAD^^20030718091426.053-0600^USA~UNITED STATES~VA-MFS-B

I can get the following using Terser

MFE^MAD^^20030718091426.494-0600^USA

Using the following terser code:

terser.set("MFN_M01_MFEZ(0)/MFE-1", "MAD");
terser.set("MFN_M01_MFEZ(0)/MFE-3", "20030718091426.494-0600");
terser.set("MFN_M01_MFEZ(0)/MFE-4-1", "USA");

The problem is I don't see a way using Terser to set the type of the Varies
used for the primary key value in the MFE. I have to resort to the following
to get Terser to work:

mfn.getMFN_M01_MFEZ(0).getMFE().getPrimaryKeyValueMFE(0).setData(new CE());

It would be nice to be able to do something like:

terser.set("/MFN_M01_MFEZ(0)/MFE-4-1/CE-1", "USA");
terser.set("/MFN_M01_MFEZ(0)/MFE-4-1/CE-2", "UNITED STATES");
terser.set("/MFN_M01_MFEZ(0)/MFE-4-1/CE-3", "VA-MFS-B");

Did I miss something? Is there a way? Do you plan on adding a way?

Thanks,
Keith