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

[Wyatt T. <wt...@ra...>]

Hi Bryan,

Thanks for the quick response.

> 
> 
>>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.
> 

I'm currently using v0.4.3. The PN object returned is of type 
ca.uhn.hl7v2.model.v21.datatype.PN, but it doesn't seem to have a 
getFamilyName method. Is the getFamilyName method new in 0.5? Is 0.5 
beta safe to use in a production environment?

-Wyatt