Re: [HAPI-devel] HAPI encoding

[Nico V. <ni...@sk...>]

Hi Bernhard,

Encoding (eg ISO-8859-1) only comes into the picture when you read/write=20
from/to a file or a socket.

There was in a bug in hapi pre 0.4.3 with regards to encoding in the MLLP=20
classes, so if you're receiving the data from SAP over a socket upgrading=20
to 0.4.3 should solve your problem.

If you're reading the data from a file, please make sure to set the right=20
encoding on your stream constructor !

If you can't figure out, please send me a sample message and the piece of=20
code you use to parse the message.

Best Regards

Nico

At 19/07/2005, B=F6hm Bernhard wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am using the HAPI (0.4.2) classes to transform patients that have been=20
>exported from SAP, for mass loads (~ 1.000.000 persons), to a standard=20
>HL7-A08 message.
>The problem I have now, is a simple one, but I did not find a solution! We=
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>have, in our SAP system, sometimes strange characters stored, for example=
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>a =91#=92 in an address field. Now, to be able to parse the HL7 message,=20
>generated by HAPI, in our subsystem, I would need to encode the message in=
=20
>ISO-8859-1 encoding format (for those special characters). In the=20
>PipeParser-class, which I use to encode, I found a method =93encode(Message=
,=20
>String)=94 which should use a special encoding to generate the message.=
 But,=20
>unfortunately ISO-8859-1 seems not to be supported, as I always get an=20
>EncodingNotSupportedError!
>So, my question would be, if there is a possibility to encode in=20
>ISO-8859-1 or maybe there is another method that I did not find yet?!
>
>Thanks a lot in advance for your help!
>
>Regards
>Bernhard B=F6hm
>