Hey Gary.

I know that this has been mentioned before, but actual line breaks in the HL7 like this will likely causes issues with the parsing of the HL7 message in your receiving system.

I believe your goal should either be (see line 35):

(but maybe swapping out "/.br/" with "\X0D\\X0A\" depending on the receiving system per Jeffrey Drumm's comment here)

Or (see line 21)

Good spot - I got so distracted by the %ConstructClone not being called with deep=1 that I didn't even notice that they were then still working from their pRequest variable.

Hey Thembelani.

You have a few options you can go for depending on what formats you are attempting to convert from.

You could look at something like using pandoc via the command line (as in, building an operation that does the command line calling, and then creating a set of request/response classes to call from a Process in your IRIS instance), or with with Python becoming more popular in IRIS, you could look what packages are available for doing what you're looking to do.

You could also look at libreoffice from the command line, but I found that headless libreoffice was a fair bit slower when running on Windows vs linux, so you may not get a lot of use with this approach depending on what you're running on.

There are a few options you could go for here. One would be to have your DTL go from your HL7 Message to Ens.StreamContainer, and then use a code block in your DTL to create and write the stream to store in the stream container.

Something like:

    Set stream = ##class(%Stream.GlobalBinary).%New()
    Do stream.Write(yourTextString)
    set streamContainer=##class(Ens.StreamContainer).%New(stream)
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(Above is untested, and you may need to set other values within the container.)

You can then use the operation class EnsLib.File.PassthroughOperation to then write the file out to your desired location.

Hey Yuhong.

This would need to be achieved via the a rule as something like this:

If PV1:7.9 is then not equal to the value, then it will not hit the transform and will not then get sent to the target.

My approach would be to make use of the OAuth 2.0 Client configuration via the Management Portal.

You can configure the Issuer Endpoint here, as well as add the details of the Client, Secret, etc.

To then make use of this configuration within an Operation, you can then do something like this:

Method AuthoriseMe(Output AccessToken As %String) As %Status
{
 //Set basic parameters
 Set tSC = $$$OK
 Set myscopes = "profile"
 Set clientName = ..Client
 Set AccessToken = ""
 //Check to see if client is already authenticated
 Set isAuth=##class(%SYS.OAuth2.AccessToken).IsAuthorized(clientName,,myscopes,.accessToken,.idtoken,.responseProperties,.error)

 //If we're not authorised already, we need to authorise ourselves.
 If isAuth=0{
   //Not Authenticated - authenticate client
   //Quit on error is used here as, if we're unable to get the token 
   $$$QuitOnError(##class(%SYS.OAuth2.Authorization).GetAccessTokenClient(clientName,myscopes,,.error))
   $$$QuitOnError(##class(%SYS.OAuth2.AccessToken).IsAuthorized(clientName,,myscopes,.accessToken,.idtoken,.responseProperties,.error))
   }
 
 Set AccessToken = accessToken
 Quit tSC
}
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Where ..Client is in the code snippet, the value of this will need to match the name of the client as configured in the management portal.

Hey Brad.

Apologies, I'm not entirely sure why I typed unicode in full upper-case when that's not present in the helper dialog or the drop down.

How confident are you that what you're receiving is actually unicode?

The adapter by default will look at what's in MSH:18 and will only use the selection in the adapter setting if this is blank in the message.

Firstly, try setting this to "!latin1" (without the quotes) to force it to operate as latin1 as per the support info for DefCharEncoding:

Putting ! before the encoding name will force the use of the named encoding and will ignore any value found in MSH:18.

If that fails, I'd then cycle through the other options starting with "!utf-8" and then one of the variants of Unicode available when using the drop down

Be careful - there are some overlaps when it comes to come encodings where things look fine until certain symbols come into play, at which point you end up with some interesting outputs. 

Hi David.

As Luis has stated, this doesn't allow you to make direct changes to the message. However, you can use this to set a variable that can then be referenced within a transformation. The Property variable can only be "RuleActionUserData"

To use this in an action:

And then within the DTL, you can reference "aux.RuleActionUserData":

I'm thinking to increase the pool parameter, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea.

If you are not concerned about the order of which you are processing the inbound requests, then upping the pool size to the number of parallel jobs you're looking to run with should do what you need 

However, you may need to then also apply this logic to related components that the Process interacts with, otherwise you will end up just moving the bottleneck to another component.

Alternatively, if it fits your use case, you could use the Actor Pool for your production components and then increase it to a point where you see the bottleneck drop off.

Paolo has provided the link to the documentation on Pools, which has some info on considerations for the use of the two different types of Pool.

I haven't seen anything "official" but there was this article from 2021 that provided a way to recreate it:

VSCode Tips & Tricks - SOAP Wizard | InterSystems Developer Community |
 

Hey Christine.

If I'm reading your question and subsequent replies correctly, you're trying to take the value of PV1:7.1, and then use that in a SQL query. The answer has been given by Ashok when you put their replies together, but hopefully putting it all into a single response will make things easier to follow.

If this is the case, then you will want to do the following:

Step 1: Set a variable to the value of PV1:7.1:

Step 2: Add a code block, and use this to run your sql query:

Step 3: Do what you need to with the value of ID - for the sake of this response, I'm just setting the value of PV1:7.2 to the ID returned from the query that inserted into the variable "Output":

It's worth knowing that, when working with Embedded SQL, prefixing a variable with a colon is how you can pass variables in and out of the Embedded SQL section of code. However it's a bit clearer when working directly with ObjectScript vs a DTL.

For example, if we had the following table:

We could have the following in ObjectScript:

    Set X = "" // X is null
    Set Y = "ABC"
    &SQL(
        SELECT COL_B
        into :X
        From TestTable
        WHERE COL_A = :Y
    )
    WRITE X //X is 123
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I don't believe there is a way of increasing the system limit on string lengths. Even if there is, it's best to approach this by working with the data as a stream.

Otherwise you could end up in a cat and mouse game of needing to increase the length the next time you get a larger document

The input is a string, so the max length will be your system max (which should be 3,641,144).

Assuming you're trying to retrieve the stream from a HL7 message, you will probably want to use the built in method GetFieldStreamBase64

So you could try something like:

Set tStream = ##class(%Stream.TmpBinary).%New()
Set tSC = pHL7.GetFieldStreamBase64(.tStream,"OBX:5")
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And then your decoded file would be in the temp stream.

(You may need to tweak this slightly depending on how you intend to then use the stream, and the correct property path of the Base64 within the HL7 message)

This is a rather subjective based on the skill level of the intended audience.

You could add a comment to the ClassMethod to provide context to what is being done and why. For example:

/// This ClassMethod takes a delimited String from System-X that consists of sets of Questions and Answers. 
/// The Sets are delimited by a pipe "|" and then the questions and answers are delimeted by a colon ":"
/// The response from this ClassMethod is a %Library.DynamicArray object containing the questions and answers
ClassMethod createResponse(data As %String(MAXLEN="")) As %Library.DynamicArray
{
    ;1.- Questions splitted by "|"
    Set listQuestions 			= $LISTFROMSTRING(data, "|")
    Set items 			= []
    Set questionNumber 	= 0
    ;2.- Iterate
    For i=1:1:$LISTLENGTH(listQuestions) {
        Set questionAnswer = $LISTGET(listQuestions, i)
        ;3.- Update variables
        Set questionNumber 	= questionNumber + 1
        Set question 		= $PIECE(questionAnswer, ":", 1)
        Set answer 		    = $ZSTRIP($PIECE(questionAnswer, ":", 2), "<W") //Get rid of initial whitespace
        ;4.- Generate item
        Set item 			= 									
        {
        "definition": ("question "_(questionNumber)),
        "text": (question),
        "answer": 
        [
            {
                "valueString": (answer)
            }
        ]
        }
        Do items.%Push(item)
    }	
    Quit items
}
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Or you could go one step further and be more descriptive with your comment at each action within your code. So, instead of:

;2.- Iterate

You could write something like:

;2.- Iterate through the list of Questions and Answers

If your intended audience is not familiar with ObjectScript, then you may want to introduce them to features in stages. For example, you could use $ZSTRIP on both the question and answer in your For loop, but only nest it for the answer and use comments to describe it all. Something like:

// Retrieve the question from the delimited entry
Set tQuestion = $PIECE(questionAnswer, ":", 1)

// Strip any whitespace from the start of the question
Set question = $ZSTRIP(tQuestion, "<W")

// It is also possible to nest functions, so below we will retrieve the answer and remove the whitespace in a single line.
Set answer = $ZSTRIP($PIECE(questionAnswer, ":", 2), "<W")
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Hey Kurro.

I'm not sure of a built in function for this, but if you wanted to have your own:

Class Demo.FunctionSets.Example
{

ClassMethod Format(InputString As %String, Params... As %String) As %String
{
	Set OutputString = InputString
	For i = 1 : 1 : $GET(Params, 0){
		Set OutputString = $Replace(OutputString,"{"_i_"}",Params(i))
	}
	
	Quit OutputString
}

}
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And then:

Write ##Class(Demo.FunctionSets.example).Format("My name is {1} and I'm {2} years","Kurro","18")
My name is Kurro and I'm 18 years

Hey Yuri.

The users are held within the SQL table "Security.Users" in the %SYS namespace, so you could use embedded sql to return the information, however as you're unlikely to be executing your code directly from the %SYS namespace, I'd suggest creating a function that you pass the email address, and it returns the username.

Something like:

Class Demo.Utils.General.Users
{

ClassMethod UserFromEmail(Email As %String, Output Username As %String) As %Status
{
	//Initially set this to null, as we want to return it empty when we get no results
	Set Username = ""
	//Hold the Namespace within a variable so we can use the variable to set the namespace back once the SQL has been run.
	Set CurrNamespace = $NAMESPACE
	//Change NameSpace to %SYS
	Set $NAMESPACE = "%SYS"
	//Run query to get the Username based on the email address - note the use of the UPPER function to remove issues with case sensitivity
	&SQL(
	Select ID into :Username
	FROM Security.Users
	WHERE UPPER(EmailAddress) = UPPER(:Email)
	)
	
	//Set namespace back to the namespace the function was run from
	Set $NAMESPACE = CurrNamespace
	
	//Evaluate SQLCODE for result
	//Less than 0 is an error.
	If SQLCODE <0{
		WRITE "SQLCODE="_$SYSTEM.SQL.Functions.SQLCODE(SQLCODE)
		QUIT 0
		}
	
	//Greater than 0 can really only mean Code 100, which is no results found.
	If SQLCODE > 0 {
		QUIT 1 //No Result Found
		}
	Else {
		QUIT 1 //Result Found
		}
}

}
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DEMO> WRITE Class(Demo.Utils.General.Users).UserFromEmail("YuriMarx@ACME.XYZ",.Output)
1

DEMO> WRITE Output
YMARX

This is by no means perfect as I have thrown it together for the example - please forgive the messy if/else's! 

There's a few "gotchas" when it comes to Character Encoding. But the key thing in you case is understanding the character encoding being used by the receiving system. This should be something specified in the specification of the receiving system, but many times it's not.

If I had to guess, it's most likely that the receiving system is using UTF-8 simply because latin1/ISO-8859-1 encodes the pound symbol as hex "A3" whereas UTF-8 encodes to  "C2 A3". As there's no solitary "A3" in UTF-8, there's nothing to print, which is why you get the ? instead. I'm sure there's other character sets where this can happen, but I would start there.

Hey Andy.

When you're copying the router from your production, it will continue to reference the same rules class in the settings as per:

After you have copied the Router, you will want to hit the magnifying glass and then use the "Save As" option in the Rule Editor. After you have done this, you can then go back to your Production and then change the rule assigned to your Router via the drop down to select the new rule.

Just make sure you create a new alias for your Rule on the "general" tab on the rule page. 

Hey William.

I'm pretty sure you just need to query the table Ens.MessageHeader.

This should give you the process by way of the column SourceConfigName, and the status of the discarded messages.

For example:

You may want to consider including a time range depending on the size of the underlying database.