awinder / nodengine-hl7

HL7 parser for nodengine

nodengine-hl7

A hl7 parser

Installation

$ npm install --save nodengine-hl7

Unit Tests

To run tests:

$ npm test

NOTE: All hl7 test fixtures are samples taken from various places on the internet

To generate code coverage:

$ npm run cover

API

Parser

Constructor

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Message

Constructor

Params

Name	Type(s)	Description
segments	Array, Segment	A single Segment or an array of Segments

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Message.hasSegments()

Does this message have any segments?

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Message.addSegment()

Adds the given segment to the message

Params

Name	Type(s)	Description
segment	Segment	The Segment to add to the message

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Message.getHeader()

Gets the header Segment of the Message

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Message.delimiters()

Gets the delimiters for the given message. These are taken from the MSH

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Segment

Constructor

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Segment.parse()

Parses data as a hl7 segment

Params

Name	Type(s)	Description
data	Buffer, String	The segment

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utils.segmentIsHeader()

Is the given segment a header segment?

Params

Name	Type(s)	Description
segment	Segment	A Segment object

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utils.segmentTypeIsHeader()

Is the given segment type a header segment?

Params

Name	Type(s)	Description
type	String	The segment type

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Development (This is just what I use :])

homebrew

• To install, copy and paste the below into Terminal, hit enter, and follow the onscreen instructions

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

node.js

• Go to http://nodejs.org and click download
• Then, follow the instructions

Xcode (including command line tools)

• Download from the App Store
• To install command line tools, open Terminal and run:

$ git