Why not simply:
Structure[] zals = message.getAll("ZAL")
int reps = zals.length
then you can iterate over the zals, cast them to a segment and do your
checks.
cheers
Christian
2015-03-26 1:18 GMT+01:00 Ian Vowles <ian.vow...@health.qld.gov.au>:
> I have been trying to create a method that checks a field for a specific
> value that will work when passed just a Message object with any parsed
> message. It's a bit tricky because it's in a Z-Segment, but the methods all
> look to be there.
>
> Unfortunately, I have hit a somewhat odd behaviour. My input message is
> an A01 with a couple of ZAL segments on the end. Here is the code:
>
> String inputMessage
> =
> "MSH|^~\\&|HOMER|irusgch|EGATE-IRUS^prjHbcisRawIn|00050|20150324121258||ADT^A01|20150324121258383268|P|2.3|||AL|AL|AUS|ASCII|ENG\r"
> .
> . bunch of nice A01 segments
> .
> + "ZMR|20140930|095522|1|GC1|\"\"|0001|NIUMM\r"
> + "ZAL|1|AL|NOTTRAU1^NOT TRAUMA
> SERVICES^ALERT|||20150324000000||A01 TEST\r"
> + "ZAL|2|AL|NOTTRAU^TRAUMA
> SERVICES^ALERT|||20150324000000||A01 TEST\r";
>
> HapiContext context = new DefaultHapiContext();
> context.setModelClassFactory(new GenericModelClassFactory());
> Message message = context.getPipeParser().parse(inputMessage);
> Terser terser = new Terser(message);
> SegmentFinder finder = terser.getFinder();
> Segment zal;
> // zal = finder.getSegment("ZAL", 2);
> // zal = finder.getSegment("ZAL", 3);
> boolean zalFound = true;
> boolean validZal = false;
> int zalIndex = 0;
> while (zalFound && !validZal) {
> try {
> zal = finder.getSegment("ZAL", zalIndex);
> String zal3 = terser.get(zal, 3, 0, 1, 1);
> validZal = "TRAU".equalsIgnoreCase(zal3);
> System.out.println("Counter is = '" + zalIndex + "'
> ZAL-3-1 = '" + zal3 + "'");
> zalIndex++;
> zalFound = zalIndex < 100;
> } catch (HL7Exception ex) {
> zalFound = false;
> }
> }
> System.out.println("Valid ZAL found = " + zalFound);
>
> When I first started writing, I tried out the line zal =
> finder.getSegment("ZAL", 3); to see if an exception would be thrown, and it
> was, and it even gave me a range for the number of ZAL segments (more on
> that later).
> However, when I ran the code in the loop, before I added an upper bound to
> the count of ZAL segments, it would loop for ever.
>
> Further investigation showed me that if I asked the finder for a segment
> repetition 1 higher than the number present (uncommenting the two
> getSegment lines together does not throw an exception), then an empty
> segment is added and returned, and since I am incrementing through, this
> behaviour continues forever.
>
> So, how can I find out before I start looping, how many repeats of the
> segment exist, so I can set an accurate upper bound, or how can I get a
> 'not found' exception to be thrown should I ask for an index beyond those
> that actually exist?
>
> I did find that using zalFound = !zal.isEmpty(); instead of using a large
> upper bound of the count worked, which is ok, but not really obvious.
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
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