Re: [HAPI-devel] HAPI 2.1 Using .isEmpty()

2013-09-30 Thread Ian Vowles
I agree that active null is not empty, special action often needs to be taken when it is present. I added the various cases to make sure I knew what was happening. Thanks for looking into it. Ian >>> Christian Ohr 30/09/13 17:41 >>> Yes, isEmpty() has some issues. I think some of them were

[HAPI-devel] Integrating HAPI with Pentaho

2013-09-30 Thread Quintessence Anx
Good afternoon all, I'm new to HL7/HAPI and been working on a solution to use it with Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle). There is an HL7 input step for Pentaho in the current version; unfortunately, it doesn't do what we need so I'm working on something custom. Since this application isn't part

Re: [HAPI-devel] HAPI 2.1 Using .isEmpty()

2013-09-30 Thread Christian Ohr
Yes, isEmpty() has some issues. I think some of them were fixed, unfortunately after the 2.1 release; but some corner cases like existing but empty extra components were not considered. I'll look deeper into it as soon as time permits. Would you think, active nulls ("") should be considered an "em