HL7v2 Mina Codec

Some parameters defined in camel-mina have fixed values in MLLP-based IPF IHE components. This means that these parameters are actually not configurable by the user anymore; values provided via endpoint URIs will be silently ignored.

These parameters are:

MINA Parameters

Parameter name	Type	Constant value
sync	boolean	true
lazySessionCreation	boolean	true
transferExchange	boolean	false
encoding	String	corresponds to the charset name configured for the HL7 codec factory, as described below

All other URI parameters defined in camel-mina remain fully functional and configurable by the user. Of particular interest are the following parameters:

Parameter name	Type	Default	Description
disconnect	boolean	false	(producer,consumer): disconnect(close) from Mina session right after use.
minaLogger	boolean	false	(producer,consumer): enable Apache MINA slf4j logging at INFO level to log all I/O.
timeout	long (ms)	30000	(producer,consumer): timeout that specifies how long to wait for a response from a remote server
writeTimeout	long (ms)	10000	(producer,consumer): maximum amount of time it should take to send data to the MINA session

HL7 Codec Parameters

camel-mina defines a parameter named codec, which is expected to contain the name of a bean that references a codec factory that translates the network stream into a suitable application protocol and vice versa. camel-hl7 comes with an implementation of an MLLP codec factory. MLLP-based IPF IHE components set #hl7codec as a default value for this parameter. The corresponding bean must always be defined:

    <bean id="hl7codec" class="org.apache.camel.component.hl7.HL7MLLPCodec">
        <property name="charset" value="iso-8859-1"/>
    </bean>

In case you need to set a custom HapiContext on the codec, you need to use the IPF implementation of the HL7 codec factory:

    <bean id="hl7codec" class="org.apache.camel.component.hl7.CustomHL7MLLPCodec">
        <property name="charset" value="iso-8859-1"/>
        <property name="hapiContext" ref="hapiContext"/>
    </bean>

The character set name for the HL7 codec factory will be automatically:

• propagated to the Camel component (see parameter encoding in the table above)
• stored in the Exchange.CHARSET_NAME property of each Camel exchange
• used in all data transformation activities