Contents -------- 1.0 Description 2.0 History 1.0 Description --------------- This is the Perl HL7 API. It is a very simple, but rather flexible API for use in Perl applications. Development is in full progress, so please bear with me for the moment, while I test the API in real situations, and converge on a basic API that provides the stuff you meet in real HL7-life. The focus of this API is on providing the HL7 wrapping and composing of messages, not providing hundreds of prefab HL7 messages. Please refer to the POD documentation for examples and the API documentation. 2.0 History ----------- version 0.65: * the getRequest method of the Net::HL7::Daemon::Client has been enabled for multiple incoming messages. This means that the getRequest method now tries to read from the socket every time it is called. * Fixed some documentation version 0.64: * Fixed error in daemon and ack tests * Fixed erroneous setting of MSH fields in Message.pm * set MSH(11) to P and MSH(15) to AL per default * Made new() method of Message also split message string on \n * ACK now takes MSH(11) and MSH(12) from incoming MSH, and sets MSH(15) and MSH(16) to the empty string. * Fixed erroneous sendAck and sendNack methods. The stuff is now sent as a single line, to prevent perl from inserting separators, like end of lines, etc. version 0.63: * fixed some POD errors * added the sendResponse method to Net::HL7::Daemon::Client * Removed NACK module: it doesn't exists in the HL7 world. * The MSH segment now uses index 1 of it's fields for the FIELD_SEPARATOR value; other fields have moved one to the right * added setAckCode method to ACK, to be able to set the error for the acknowledgement. version 0.62: * Fixed erroneous read of input buffer for Client * Added ACK, NACK messages * Added MSH segment * getSegmentByName is removed * Made the Daemon and the Client inherit from IO::Socket, so you can more easy do things with forking and other server operations you would perform on sockets. * Made several constructors set segments and values, like auto-adding the MSH segment to every instance of Message. version 0.61: * Moved the stuff to a new namespace (Net::HL7) * Created a Daemon, resembling the HTTP::Daemon * Created the Request and Response classes * added tests version 0.5: * Added the getField method to HL7::Message * repaired broken message parse for HL7::Message constructor version 0.4: * Removed spurious newline between segments.