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package ca.uhn.fhir.parser;
import ca.uhn.fhir.context.ConfigurationException;
import ca.uhn.fhir.context.FhirContext;
import ca.uhn.fhir.context.ParserOptions;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.api.IResource;
import ca.uhn.fhir.rest.api.EncodingEnum;
import org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IAnyResource;
import org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IBase;
import org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IBaseResource;
import org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IIdType;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
/**
* A parser, which can be used to convert between HAPI FHIR model/structure objects, and their respective String wire
* formats, in either XML or JSON.
*
* Thread safety: Parsers are not guaranteed to be thread safe. Create a new parser instance for every thread or
* every message being parsed/encoded.
*
*/
public interface IParser {
/**
* Encodes a resource using the parser's given encoding format.
*
* @param theResource The resource to encode. Must not be null.
* @return A string representation of the encoding
* @throws DataFormatException If any invalid elements within the contents to be encoded prevent successful encoding.
*/
String encodeResourceToString(IBaseResource theResource) throws DataFormatException;
/**
* Encodes a resource using the parser's given encoding format.
*
* @param theResource The resource to encode. Must not be null.
* @param theWriter The writer to write to.
* @throws DataFormatException If any invalid elements within the contents to be encoded prevent successful encoding.
*/
void encodeResourceToWriter(IBaseResource theResource, Writer theWriter) throws IOException, DataFormatException;
/**
* Encodes any FHIR element to a string.
* If a {@link IBaseResource resource object} is passed in, the resource will be encoded using standard FHIR
* encoding rules. If a {@link org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IPrimitiveType primitive datatype} is passed in,
* the string value of the primitive type is encoded. Any extensions on the primitive type are not encoded.
* If any other object is passed in, a fragment is encoded. The format of the fragment depends on the encoding:
*
* - JSON: The fragment is output as a simple JSON object, exactly as it would appear within an encoded resource.
* - XML: The fragment is output as an XML element as it would appear within an encoded resource, however it is wrapped in an element called
<element>
in order to avoid producing a document with multiple root tags.
* - RDF/Turtle: This mode is not supported and will throw an {@link ca.uhn.fhir.rest.server.exceptions.InternalErrorException}
*
*
* @since 6.8.0
*/
String encodeToString(IBase theElement) throws DataFormatException;
/**
* Encodes any FHIR element to a writer.
* If a {@link IBaseResource resource object} is passed in, the resource will be encoded using standard FHIR
* encoding rules. If a {@link org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IPrimitiveType primitive datatype} is passed in,
* the string value of the primitive type is encoded. Any extensions on the primitive type are not encoded.
* If any other object is passed in, a fragment is encoded. The format of the fragment depends on the encoding:
*
* - JSON: The fragment is output as a simple JSON object, exactly as it would appear within an encoded resource.
* - XML: The fragment is output as an XML element as it would appear within an encoded resource, however it is wrapped in an element called
<element>
in order to avoid producing a document with multiple root tags.
* - RDF/Turtle: This mode is not supported and will throw an {@link ca.uhn.fhir.rest.server.exceptions.InternalErrorException}
*
*
* @since 6.8.0
*/
void encodeToWriter(IBase theElement, Writer theWriter) throws DataFormatException, IOException;
/**
* If not set to null (as is the default) this ID will be used as the ID in any
* resources encoded by this parser
*/
IIdType getEncodeForceResourceId();
/**
* When encoding, force this resource ID to be encoded as the resource ID
*/
IParser setEncodeForceResourceId(IIdType theForceResourceId);
/**
* Which encoding does this parser instance produce?
*/
EncodingEnum getEncoding();
/**
* Gets the preferred types, as set using {@link #setPreferTypes(List)}
*
* @return Returns the preferred types, or null
* @see #setPreferTypes(List)
*/
List> getPreferTypes();
/**
* If set, when parsing resources the parser will try to use the given types when possible, in
* the order that they are provided (from highest to lowest priority). For example, if a custom
* type which declares to implement the Patient resource is passed in here, and the
* parser is parsing a Bundle containing a Patient resource, the parser will use the given
* custom type.
*
* This feature is related to, but not the same as the
* {@link FhirContext#setDefaultTypeForProfile(String, Class)} feature.
* setDefaultTypeForProfile
is used to specify a type to be used
* when a resource explicitly declares support for a given profile. This
* feature specifies a type to be used irrespective of the profile declaration
* in the metadata statement.
*
*
* @param thePreferTypes The preferred types, or null
*/
void setPreferTypes(List> thePreferTypes);
/**
* Returns true if resource IDs should be omitted
*
* @see #setOmitResourceId(boolean)
* @since 1.1
*/
boolean isOmitResourceId();
/**
* If set to true
(default is false
) the ID of any resources being encoded will not be
* included in the output. Note that this does not apply to contained resources, only to root resources. In other
* words, if this is set to true
, contained resources will still have local IDs but the outer/containing
* ID will not have an ID.
*
* If the resource being encoded is a Bundle or Parameters resource, this setting only applies to the
* outer resource being encoded, not any resources contained wihthin.
*
*
* @param theOmitResourceId Should resource IDs be omitted
* @return Returns a reference to this
parser so that method calls can be chained together
* @since 1.1
*/
IParser setOmitResourceId(boolean theOmitResourceId);
/**
* If set to true (which is the default), resource references containing a version
* will have the version removed when the resource is encoded. This is generally good behaviour because
* in most situations, references from one resource to another should be to the resource by ID, not
* by ID and version. In some cases though, it may be desirable to preserve the version in resource
* links. In that case, this value should be set to false
.
*
* @return Returns the parser instance's configuration setting for stripping versions from resource references when
* encoding. This method will retun null
if no value is set, in which case
* the value from the {@link ParserOptions} will be used (default is true
)
* @see ParserOptions
*/
Boolean getStripVersionsFromReferences();
/**
* If set to true (which is the default), resource references containing a version
* will have the version removed when the resource is encoded. This is generally good behaviour because
* in most situations, references from one resource to another should be to the resource by ID, not
* by ID and version. In some cases though, it may be desirable to preserve the version in resource
* links. In that case, this value should be set to false
.
*
* This method provides the ability to globally disable reference encoding. If finer-grained
* control is needed, use {@link #setDontStripVersionsFromReferencesAtPaths(String...)}
*
*
* @param theStripVersionsFromReferences Set this to false to prevent the parser from removing resource versions from references (or null
to apply the default setting from the {@link ParserOptions}
* @return Returns a reference to this
parser so that method calls can be chained together
* @see #setDontStripVersionsFromReferencesAtPaths(String...)
* @see ParserOptions
*/
IParser setStripVersionsFromReferences(Boolean theStripVersionsFromReferences);
/**
* Is the parser in "summary mode"? See {@link #setSummaryMode(boolean)} for information
*
* @see {@link #setSummaryMode(boolean)} for information
*/
boolean isSummaryMode();
/**
* If set to true
(default is false
) only elements marked by the FHIR specification as
* being "summary elements" will be included.
*
* @return Returns a reference to this
parser so that method calls can be chained together
*/
IParser setSummaryMode(boolean theSummaryMode);
/**
* Parses a resource
*
* @param theResourceType The resource type to use. This can be used to explicitly specify a class which extends a built-in type
* (e.g. a custom type extending the default Patient class)
* @param theReader The reader to parse input from. Note that the Reader will not be closed by the parser upon completion.
* @return A parsed resource
* @throws DataFormatException If the resource can not be parsed because the data is not recognized or invalid for any reason
*/
T parseResource(Class theResourceType, Reader theReader) throws DataFormatException;
/**
* Parses a resource
*
* @param theResourceType The resource type to use. This can be used to explicitly specify a class which extends a built-in type
* (e.g. a custom type extending the default Patient class)
* @param theInputStream The InputStream to parse input from, with an implied charset of UTF-8. Note that the InputStream will not be closed by the parser upon completion.
* @return A parsed resource
* @throws DataFormatException If the resource can not be parsed because the data is not recognized or invalid for any reason
*/
T parseResource(Class theResourceType, InputStream theInputStream)
throws DataFormatException;
/**
* Parses a resource
*
* @param theResourceType The resource type to use. This can be used to explicitly specify a class which extends a built-in type
* (e.g. a custom type extending the default Patient class)
* @param theString The string to parse
* @return A parsed resource
* @throws DataFormatException If the resource can not be parsed because the data is not recognized or invalid for any reason
*/
T parseResource(Class theResourceType, String theString) throws DataFormatException;
/**
* Parses a resource
*
* @param theReader The reader to parse input from. Note that the Reader will not be closed by the parser upon completion.
* @return A parsed resource. Note that the returned object will be an instance of {@link IResource} or
* {@link IAnyResource} depending on the specific FhirContext which created this parser.
* @throws DataFormatException If the resource can not be parsed because the data is not recognized or invalid for any reason
*/
IBaseResource parseResource(Reader theReader) throws ConfigurationException, DataFormatException;
/**
* Parses a resource
*
* @param theInputStream The InputStream to parse input from (charset is assumed to be UTF-8).
* Note that the stream will not be closed by the parser upon completion.
* @return A parsed resource. Note that the returned object will be an instance of {@link IResource} or
* {@link IAnyResource} depending on the specific FhirContext which created this parser.
* @throws DataFormatException If the resource can not be parsed because the data is not recognized or invalid for any reason
*/
IBaseResource parseResource(InputStream theInputStream) throws ConfigurationException, DataFormatException;
/**
* Parses a resource
*
* @param theMessageString The string to parse
* @return A parsed resource. Note that the returned object will be an instance of {@link IResource} or
* {@link IAnyResource} depending on the specific FhirContext which created this parser.
* @throws DataFormatException If the resource can not be parsed because the data is not recognized or invalid for any reason
*/
IBaseResource parseResource(String theMessageString) throws ConfigurationException, DataFormatException;
/**
* If provided, specifies the elements which should NOT be encoded. Valid values for this
* field would include:
*
* - Patient - Don't encode patient and all its children
* - Patient.name - Don't encode the patient's name
* - Patient.name.family - Don't encode the patient's family name
* - *.text - Don't encode the text element on any resource (only the very first position may contain a
* wildcard)
*
*
* DSTU2 note: Note that values including meta, such as Patient.meta
* will work for DSTU2 parsers, but values with subelements on meta such
* as Patient.meta.lastUpdated
will only work in
* DSTU3+ mode.
*
*
* @param theDontEncodeElements The elements to encode
* @see #setEncodeElements(Set)
*/
IParser setDontEncodeElements(Collection theDontEncodeElements);
/**
* If provided, specifies the elements which should be encoded, to the exclusion of all others. Valid values for this
* field would include:
*
* - Patient - Encode patient and all its children
* - Patient.name - Encode only the patient's name
* - Patient.name.family - Encode only the patient's family name
* - *.text - Encode the text element on any resource (only the very first position may contain a
* wildcard)
* - *.(mandatory) - This is a special case which causes any mandatory fields (min > 0) to be encoded
*
*
* @param theEncodeElements The elements to encode
* @see #setDontEncodeElements(Collection)
*/
IParser setEncodeElements(Set theEncodeElements);
/**
* If set to true
(default is false), the values supplied
* to {@link #setEncodeElements(Set)} will not be applied to the root
* resource (typically a Bundle), but will be applied to any sub-resources
* contained within it (i.e. search result resources in that bundle)
*/
boolean isEncodeElementsAppliesToChildResourcesOnly();
/**
* If set to true
(default is false), the values supplied
* to {@link #setEncodeElements(Set)} will not be applied to the root
* resource (typically a Bundle), but will be applied to any sub-resources
* contained within it (i.e. search result resources in that bundle)
*/
void setEncodeElementsAppliesToChildResourcesOnly(boolean theEncodeElementsAppliesToChildResourcesOnly);
/**
* Registers an error handler which will be invoked when any parse errors are found
*
* @param theErrorHandler The error handler to set. Must not be null.
*/
IParser setParserErrorHandler(IParserErrorHandler theErrorHandler);
/**
* Sets the "pretty print" flag, meaning that the parser will encode resources with human-readable spacing and
* newlines between elements instead of condensing output as much as possible.
*
* @param thePrettyPrint The flag
* @return Returns an instance of this
parser so that method calls can be chained together
*/
IParser setPrettyPrint(boolean thePrettyPrint);
/**
* Sets the server's base URL used by this parser. If a value is set, resource references will be turned into
* relative references if they are provided as absolute URLs but have a base matching the given base.
*
* @param theUrl The base URL, e.g. "http://example.com/base"
* @return Returns an instance of this
parser so that method calls can be chained together
*/
IParser setServerBaseUrl(String theUrl);
/**
* If set to true
(which is the default), the Bundle.entry.fullUrl will override the Bundle.entry.resource's
* resource id if the fullUrl is defined. This behavior happens when parsing the source data into a Bundle object. Set this
* to false
if this is not the desired behavior (e.g. the client code wishes to perform additional
* validation checks between the fullUrl and the resource id).
*
* @param theOverrideResourceIdWithBundleEntryFullUrl Set this to false
to prevent the parser from overriding resource ids with the
* Bundle.entry.fullUrl (or null
to apply the default setting from the {@link ParserOptions})
* @return Returns a reference to this
parser so that method calls can be chained together
* @see ParserOptions
*/
IParser setOverrideResourceIdWithBundleEntryFullUrl(Boolean theOverrideResourceIdWithBundleEntryFullUrl);
/**
* If set to true
(default is false
), narratives will not be included in the encoded
* values.
*/
IParser setSuppressNarratives(boolean theSuppressNarratives);
/**
* Returns the value supplied to {@link IParser#setDontStripVersionsFromReferencesAtPaths(String...)}
* or null
if no value has been set for this parser (in which case the default from
* the {@link ParserOptions} will be used}
*
* @see #setDontStripVersionsFromReferencesAtPaths(String...)
* @see #setStripVersionsFromReferences(Boolean)
* @see ParserOptions
*/
Set getDontStripVersionsFromReferencesAtPaths();
/**
* If supplied value(s), any resource references at the specified paths will have their
* resource versions encoded instead of being automatically stripped during the encoding
* process. This setting has no effect on the parsing process.
*
* This method provides a finer-grained level of control than {@link #setStripVersionsFromReferences(Boolean)}
* and any paths specified by this method will be encoded even if {@link #setStripVersionsFromReferences(Boolean)}
* has been set to true
(which is the default)
*
*
* @param thePaths A collection of paths for which the resource versions will not be removed automatically
* when serializing, e.g. "Patient.managingOrganization" or "AuditEvent.object.reference". Note that
* only resource name and field names with dots separating is allowed here (no repetition
* indicators, FluentPath expressions, etc.). Set to null
to use the value
* set in the {@link ParserOptions}
* @return Returns a reference to this
parser so that method calls can be chained together
* @see #setStripVersionsFromReferences(Boolean)
* @see ParserOptions
*/
IParser setDontStripVersionsFromReferencesAtPaths(String... thePaths);
/**
* If supplied value(s), any resource references at the specified paths will have their
* resource versions encoded instead of being automatically stripped during the encoding
* process. This setting has no effect on the parsing process.
*
* This method provides a finer-grained level of control than {@link #setStripVersionsFromReferences(Boolean)}
* and any paths specified by this method will be encoded even if {@link #setStripVersionsFromReferences(Boolean)}
* has been set to true
(which is the default)
*
*
* @param thePaths A collection of paths for which the resource versions will not be removed automatically
* when serializing, e.g. "Patient.managingOrganization" or "AuditEvent.object.reference". Note that
* only resource name and field names with dots separating is allowed here (no repetition
* indicators, FluentPath expressions, etc.). Set to null
to use the value
* set in the {@link ParserOptions}
* @return Returns a reference to this
parser so that method calls can be chained together
* @see #setStripVersionsFromReferences(Boolean)
* @see ParserOptions
*/
IParser setDontStripVersionsFromReferencesAtPaths(Collection thePaths);
}