IPF Open eHealth Integration Platform

Handling extra metadata elements in Submissions

Section 4.1.14 of the ITI TF 8.0 Vol. 3 stipulates the possibility to transport non-standard metadata along with Document Entries, Submission Sets, Folders, and Associations. The XDS Registry actor must be able to handle such information — either by storing it and returning when queried via ITI-18, or by ignoring it and including the warning “XdsExtraMetadataNotSaved� into a ITI-42 response.

If extra metadata is provided in a request, the Camel message header org.openehealth.ipf.commons.ihe.xds.core.XdsJaxbDataBinding#SUBMISSION_SET_HAS_EXTRA_METADATA will be set to Boolean.TRUE.

In addition to the Camel message header mentioned above, extra XDS metadata is mapped to the field extraMetadata in the corresponding classes of the simplified data model (Association, DocumentEntry, Folder, SubmissionSet). The field is defined as a map from ebXML slot names (String) to lists of ebXML slot values (String).

According to the IHE ITI Technical Framework, extra slot names must start with urn:, but not with urn:ihe: — this condition is checked by IPF, and all slots with wrong names will be silently ignored.

    RegisterDocumentSet request = ...

    request.documentEntries[0].extraMetadata = [
       'urn:oehf:name' : ['Open eHealth Foundation'],
       'urn:oehf:web'  : ['www.openehealth.org']]

    request.submissionSet.extraMetadata = [
       'urn:oehf:framework'        : ['IPF'],
       'urn:oehf:frameworkVersion' : ['2.5.2']]

    request.associations[1].extraMetadata = [
       'urn:acme:extraSlot1' : ['value1', 'value2', 'value3'],
       'urn:acme:extraSlot2' : ['123', '456']]

    request.folders[0].extraMetadata = [
       'urn:xyz:values'  : ['i', 'ii', 'iii'],
       'urn:acme:values' : ['vii', 'viii']]

Handling extra query parameters

The simplified XDS data model supports additional (user-defined) parameter slots — they are mapped to the field extraParameters of the StoredQuery class. This field is a map from slot names (String) to instances of QueryList.

In that way, AND/OR semantics of parameter values can be expressed by the means of multiple slots with the same name, with multiple values in each (see IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Framework, Volume 2a , section 3.18.4.1.2.3.5).

According to the ebXML Specification, parameter names shall start with the dollar character $. Moreover, they shall not collide with names of standard parameters defined by IHE.

    GetDocumentsQuery query = ...;

    QueryList<String> extraParams1 = new QueryList<String>();
    extraParams1.getOuterList().add(Arrays.asList("para-11", "para-12"));
    extraParams1.getOuterList().add(Arrays.asList("para-21", "para-22", "para-23"));

    QueryList<String> extraParams2 = new QueryList<String>();
    extraParams2.getOuterList().add(Arrays.asList("dia-31", "dia-32", "dia-33"));
    extraParams2.getOuterList().add(Arrays.asList("dia-41"));

    query.getExtraParameters().put("$Perimeter", extraParams1);
    query.getExtraParameters().put("$Diameter", extraParams2);