ca.uhn.hl7v2.parser
Class MessagePointer

java.lang.Object
  ca.uhn.hl7v2.parser.MessagePointer

Deprecated. PipeParser now uses MessageIterator

public class MessagePointer
extends Object

A MessagePointer is used when parsing traditionally encoded HL7 messages. This is similar to a GroupPointer except that there is only one underlying instance of the Message, and it has no parent.

Author:

Bryan Tripp (bryan_tripp@sourceforge.net)

See Also:

GroupPointer

Constructor Summary

MessagePointer(PipeParser parser, Message message, EncodingCharacters encodingChars)
Deprecated. Creates new GroupPointer

Method Summary

int	setSegment(String segment) Deprecated. Parses the given String, which must contain a single traditionally encoded message segment, by forwarding it to child GroupPointers and SegmentPointers until one of them succeeds.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MessagePointer

public MessagePointer(PipeParser parser,
                      Message message,
                      EncodingCharacters encodingChars)
               throws HL7Exception

Deprecated.

Creates new GroupPointer

Throws:

HL7Exception

Method Detail

setSegment

public int setSegment(String segment)
               throws HL7Exception

Deprecated.

Parses the given String, which must contain a single traditionally encoded message segment, by forwarding it to child GroupPointers and SegmentPointers until one of them succeeds.

Throws:

HL7Exception