The HL7 receiver I am sending to is expecting a very specific end of file marker in a TCP Message:
<FS><CR>
Where <FS> is ascii 28 and <CR> is ascii 13.
We are using Mirth 2.x as our HL7 engine. The <CR> (Carriage Return) is fairly straight forward.
But how do I send the The File separator?
Here is how I was able to solve this problem.
In the source transformer I defined "Start of File" and "End of File" variables like this:
channelMap.put('SOF',String.fromCharCode(11)); // Start Of File: returns \v (vertical tab));
channelMap.put('EOF',String.fromCharCode(28,13)); // End Of File: returns <FS><CR>);
In the destination template I then did this:
${SOF}${message.encodedData}${EOF}
I wrote the messages out to temporary file and opened them in a Hex Editor. I was able to confirm that the a 0x0B (Ascii 11) was written prior to the message and the message closed with 0x1C 0x0D (Ascii 28, Ascii 13)
I'd recommend using the LLP Sender in Mirth. It can be configured to use different separator chars if needed.
My guess is that the two bytes you are seeing are the end of of segment and the end of message chars.
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Interesting about how the server detect the end of client's message in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4315
As I know multipart/mixed contains a lot of empty lines, it would be wrong using just CRLF.
Messages and similar multiline structures are preceded by a byte count.
> A1 APPEND INBOX {4082}\r\n
< + Go ahead\r\n
> (4082 bytes of message follow)\r\n
Simple as that.
I have a requirement to expand required tree in decoded parameters of pcap file and validate a message in it.
Example:
Open "Transmission Control Protocol" as shown in screenshot and and validate for the message "This is an ACK to the segment in frame: 278".
Need to develop an automation script in Java for validating messages in pcap files . Currently am using jnetpcap lib.
Appreciate your inputs!.
You can't, without protocol analysis by yourself. A pcap file doesn't include such massages.
The message "This is an ACK to the segment in frame: 278" was generated by wireshark after TCP session analysis by itself. Even the frame number 278 was assigned by wireshark. A pcap file only contains packets' data.
I have to send HL7 message to web service. I am adding CHAR(13) (carriage return or \r) as segment terminator in stored procedure and calling a web service to send the HL7 message. When the service receives the message they are saying I am adding extra CHAR(10) (line feed or \n ) in my segment terminators. I have looked into my values and just before sending it only has \r as segment terminators. How to make sure that the service also receives it as only \r without extra \n. I have looked around but haven't found any solution so far.
Have you looked at the message in Fiddler or TCP Spy depending on how you are sending your message?
It will at least prove if you are providing anything other than the /r
I've been caught by messages having multiple ways of breaking the line. \r, \n and also a combo of the 2.
Have you tried redirecting the message to somewhere you can actually read yourself at different stages of the processing? It's getting changed somewhere and reading it out at different stages caught the error for me. Or just a series of the below at different stages.
content = hl7message.read()
if "\n" in content:
print "ERROR"
As i read in some fingerprint manual we can send text file to the printer. Means we can write the program in the text editor and send the whole program as a text file to the printer using the communication program using some transfer commands.
for in my host there is a file called myfile.txt in D:/ with the fallowing data
10 PRPOS 200,200
20 DIR 3
30 ALIGN 5
40 PRIMAGE “GLOBE.1”
50 PRINTFEED
RUN
How can i send this file to printer and execute the instrucations to print the image.
Please give me some code reference.
There are several ways to do this from the command line. For example:
type foo.txt > lpt1:
Or
copy foo.txt lpt1:
Or
print foo.txt
Or
notepad /p foo.txt
If you need to do it programmatically, you can execute any of those commands using the system() function or CreateProcess().
If you're on an Intermec handheld and you're connected to a Bluetooth printer, you should be able to open a serial port to COM6 and send your file over. What programming language? There should be plenty of Serial Port communication code examples out there.
My experience with Intermec PM4i label printer was a roller coaster but know I have a working app.
I tried Windows printer pipeline through generictext driver. It does work from Notepad but with few corner cases.
Printing directly from Notepad works fine until I tried QRCODE image with a very long text line. Image did not print out. Made qrcode text a short few characters and same script worked fine.
INPUT OFF
NASC 1252
BF OFF
FT "Swiss 721 Bold BT",12,0,100
PP 50,500:PT "Text line goes here"
PP 400,400:AN 7:BARSET "QRCODE",1,1,7,2,4
PB "ABC123 aabbcc....very long text goes here...I mean about 200 chars or more"
PRINTFEED
It was like Notepad cut text to a right side border and command string was broken. I made a printing preferences A3-landscape and it accepted longer text but still was not enough for all use cases.
All printers have a physical max printing width but it should not be considered in a fingerprint/directprotocol script files. After all we are not printing this text as-is but submitting commands to the printer.
My solution was to create Java application which opens a raw TCP socket to 11.22.33.44:9100 address and writes text lines, lines terminated by NL(#10). Works fine. Another helper tool I did was Delphi app.exe to read IP address from Windows printer object. I can submit label printouts "directly" from Excel application.
End users edit Excel data rows and click PRINT LABELS button
vba macro parses a fingerprint template file with ${FIELD1} find-and-replace substitutes
file is written to %wintemp%/intermec_script.txt folder
call app.exe to read IP address of user chosen printer
call java app to submit intermec_script.txt to IP:PORT socket
I should create same socket submit app in Delphi to drop javavm dependency but this solution was faster for my use case. I am more familiar with Java than my Delphi skill level.
Suppose a display file has been declared in a CL program. It accepts some user input and conducts some validations to it. If it fails the validation a message would be displayed on the bottom of the display file. Is it possible to achieve this in CL? I have tried SNDPGMMSG with MSGTYPE(*DIAG), but the message is displayed only after the program has been terminated, and not on the display file during the execution.
The message to be sent is retrieved from message file so using field to display message is not applicable.
Normally we use message subfile to achive what you required above.
It can be done in display file for both CL and RPG
For CL example, you could read here http://www.mcpressonline.com/cl/the-cl-corner-letting-the-user-know-what-s-right-and-wrong.html.
You could search for "cl program message subfile" for other examples
Define a 75 character field in your display file DDS. Call it MESSAGE. In your CL do something like:
if (&option *ge '35') do
CHGVAR &MESSAGE 'Invalid option chosen'
goto getOption
enddo