In the code below, I have an incoming Patient which has all the fields
that interest me filled in (see debugger image, but if it doesn't come
through, it shows that patient is filled out for name, gender, birthdate
and address).
However, when I attempt to inspect *gender* and *birthdate*, these are
*null* despite the API telling me they exist (which, of course, they
do--see attached image). Note that I create a new Patient, named worthy,
and experimentation demonstrates that my code below copies the name and
the address successfully to worthy. It's just trying to copy gender and
birthdate that result in null. If I stop at the lines with *******,
patient.getGender() and patient.getBirthDate() return null.
There must be some very fundamental bit of understanding of which I'm
completely ignorant.
{
worthy = new Patient();
// name
if( !patient.hasName() )
patientTooThin( "name" );
HumanName humanName = patient.getNameFirstRep();
List< StringType > givens = humanName.getGiven();
String family = humanName.getFamily();
String first = null, middle = null;
for( StringType given : givens )
{
if( isNull( first ) )
first = given.toString();
else if( isNull( middle ) )
middle = given.toString();
else
break;
}
if( isNull( family ) || isNull( first ) )
patientTooThin( "first or last name" );
worthy.setName( Collections.singletonList( humanName ) );
// gender *************
if( !patient.hasGender() )
patientTooThin( "gender" );
worthy.setGender( patient.getGender() ); // ***************
// birthDate
if( !patient.hasBirthDate() )
patientTooThin( "birth date" );
worthy.setBirthDate( patient.getBirthDate() ); // ***************
// address
if( !patient.hasAddress() )
patientTooThin( "address" );
worthy.setAddress( Collections.singletonList(
patient.getAddressFirstRep() ) );
}
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