ca.infoway.messagebuilder.transport.mohawk
Class MohawkTransportLayer

java.lang.Object
  ca.infoway.messagebuilder.transport.mohawk.MohawkTransportLayer

All Implemented Interfaces:

TransportLayer

public class MohawkTransportLayer
extends Object
implements TransportLayer

Implementation of a transport layer for sending messages to Mohawk HIAL via SOAP. SOAP is one of two common interfaces for HL7 messages.

Makes use of Apache Commons HttpClient for communication.

Author:

Intelliware Development

Constructor Summary

MohawkTransportLayer()
Constructs a Mohawk transport layer using a well-known url.

MohawkTransportLayer(Client client, String url)
Constructs a Mohawk transport layer for the given url.

MohawkTransportLayer(String url)
Constructs a Mohawk transport layer for the given url.

Method Summary

String

sendRequestAndGetResponse(CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider, RequestMessage requestMessage) Sends a request message synchronously and returns a response message as a string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MohawkTransportLayer

public MohawkTransportLayer()

Constructs a Mohawk transport layer using a well-known url. Makes use of the default tranport mechanism (HttpClient)

MohawkTransportLayer

public MohawkTransportLayer(String url)

Constructs a Mohawk transport layer for the given url. Makes use of the default tranport mechanism (HttpClient)

Parameters:

url - the target url to send messages to

MohawkTransportLayer

public MohawkTransportLayer(Client client,
                            String url)

Constructs a Mohawk transport layer for the given url. Makes use of provided client instead of the default HttpClient.

Parameters:

client - the transport client to use

url - the target url to send messages to

Method Detail

sendRequestAndGetResponse

public String sendRequestAndGetResponse(CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider,
                                        RequestMessage requestMessage)
                                 throws TransportLayerException

Sends a request message synchronously and returns a response message as a string.

Specified by:

sendRequestAndGetResponse in interface TransportLayer

Parameters:

credentialsProvider - object to obtain Credentials from

requestMessage - the message to be sent

Returns:

the response message as a string

Throws:

TransportLayerException - if any problems occurred