Re: [HAPI-devel] Beginner questions about building a message

[Bryan T. <bp...@gm...>]

Hi Wyatt,

> 1) I noticed that I need to manually populate all the fields for a
> segment. For example in the MSH segment, I need to manually set the
> version ID even though I've created a version 2.1 ORU message. The same
> holds true for message type. Is there a shortcut I'm missing?

True, I guess the version and type could be populated automatically at
construction, but they aren't.

> 2) How do I set the patient name in the PID segment? If I call
> pid.getPATIENTNAME().setValue("DOE^JOHN"), I get "DOE\S\JOHN" after
> calling PipeParser.encode.

It must be an older version? In the latest code, pid.getPATIENTNAME()
should return a PN object ... you would do
pid.getPATIENTNAME().getFamilyName().setValue("DOE"), and so on.

Bryan