IPF Open eHealth Integration Platform

Consumer-side requests

Consumer-side requests are automatically unmarshalled, i.e. the incoming message stream sent by the client is transformed into a HAPI Message object. When unmarshalling fails, an HL7 NAK response will be automatically generated and passed back to the sender.

Unmarshalling may also fail already earlier during reception of the MLLP byte stream (particularly when invalid characters are encountered due to misconfigured character set). You have the following two possiblities to handle these kind of errors:

• add a parameter consumer.exceptionHandler=#myExceptionHandler where the configured exception handler must implement the interface org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler.
• add a parameter consumer.bridgeErrorhandler=true which causes the exception handlers in the consumer route to be called

In both cases, you should populate the message body with a proper HL7 NAK response to be returned to the sender.

Producer-side responses

Producer-side responses are automatically unmarshalled, i.e. the incoming message stream returned by the server is transformed into a HAPI Message object. When unmarshalling fails, an exception will be thrown.

Consumer-side responses

Consumer-side responses are accepted in a number of data types that will be converted into a HL7 message stream to be returned to the client:

• HAPI ca.uhn.hl7v2.model.Message
• String
• byte[]
• java.nio.ByteBuffer
• java.io.InputStream
• java.io.File
• org.apache.camel.component.file.GenericFile<File>
• org.apache.camel.WrappedFile<File>

In addition, the message body can contain an Exception instance, which will be transformed into a NAK response. Any exceptions thrown in the route that are not handled otherwise will lead to NAK responses as well. When neither the data type of the response message is supported nor an exception has been thrown in the route, the message header org.openehealth.ipf.platform.camel.ihe.mllp.core.MllpComponent.ACK_TYPE_CODE_HEADER will be taken into consideration.

When the value of this header belongs to the enumeration type ca.uhn.hl7v2.AcknowledgmentCode, an acknowledgement will be automatically generated and sent back to the client — a positive one for AcknowledgmentCode.AA, a negative one (NAK) for AcknowledgmentCode.AE and AcknowledgmentCode.AR.

When even this header is not set or when its value is not of desired type, the consumer route fails.

Producer-side requests

Producer-side requests are accepted in a number of data types that will be converted into a HL7 message stream to be sent to the server:

• ca.uhn.hl7v2.model.Message (HAPI)
• String
• byte[]
• java.nio.ByteBuffer
• java.io.InputStream
• java.io.File
• org.apache.camel.component.file.GenericFile<File>
• org.apache.camel.WrappedFile<File>