Re: [HAPI-devel] Comparing messages

2012-08-08 Thread James Agnew
Hi Derek, I don't believe that EncodedMessageComparator does, but you could always null it out in both the expected and actual message before you compare. Alternately, Hl7V2MessageCompare has a method "setFieldsToIgnore()" which lets you put in one or more terser paths to ignore. So you could do

Re: [HAPI-devel] Comparing messages

2012-08-08 Thread Derek Mahar
Does EncodedMessageComparator.equivalent() ignore the time stamp in the message header? http://hl7api.sourceforge.net/base/apidocs/ca/uhn/hl7v2/util/EncodedMessageComparator.html#equivalent(java.lang.String, java.lang.String) Derek On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:31 PM, christian ohr wrote: > > ... o

Re: [HAPI-devel] Comparing messages

2012-08-08 Thread christian ohr
... or there's ca.uhn.hl7v2.util.EncodedMessageComparator, which provides a couple of methods that help standardizing and comparing messages. cheers Christian rahul somasunderam-2 wrote: > > I wrote up a method using LightHL7Lib: > > public void assertMessagesEqual(Hl7Record expected, Hl7R

Re: [HAPI-devel] Comparing messages

2012-08-08 Thread James Agnew
Hi Derek, One other option is to use the Hl7V2MessageCompare class from the hapi-testpanel subproject. This should probably get moved to the main HAPI library at some point, so it's a bit annoying to import for now, but it's certainly very robust. We use it internally at UHN quite a bit. You can

Re: [HAPI-devel] Comparing messages

2012-08-08 Thread Rahul Somasunderam
I wrote up a method using LightHL7Lib: public void assertMessagesEqual(Hl7Record expected, Hl7Record actual) { List headers = expected.listSegments(); headers.addAll(actual.listSegments()); assertEquals(expected.listSegments(), actual.listSegments()); Set segments = new TreeSet(h