NAME¶
mllp_send - MLLP network client
python-hl7 features a simple network client,
mllp_send, which reads HL7
messages from a file or
sys.stdin and posts them to an MLLP server.
mllp_send is a command-line wrapper around
hl7.client.MLLPClient.
mllp_send is a useful tool for testing
HL7 interfaces or resending logged messages:
$ mllp_send --file sample.hl7 --port 6661 mirth.example.com
MSH|^~\&|LIS|Example|Hospital|Mirth|20111207105244||ACK^A01|A234244|P|2.3.1|
MSA|AA|234242|Message Received Successfully|
USAGE¶
Usage: mllp_send [options] <server>
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p PORT, --port=PORT port to connect to
-f FILE, --file=FILE read from FILE instead of stdin
-q, --quiet do not print status messages to stdout
--loose allow file to be a HL7-like object (\r\n instead of
\r). Can ONLY send 1 message. Requires --file option
(no stdin)
By default,
mllp_send expects the
FILE or stdin input to be a
properly formatted HL7 message (carriage returns separating segments) wrapped
in a MLLP stream (
<SB>message1<EB><CR><SB>message2<EB><CR>...).
However, it is common, especially if the file has been manually edited in
certain text editors, that the ASCII control characters will be lost and the
carriage returns will be replaced with the platform's default line endings. In
this case,
mllp_send provides the
--loose option, which attempts
to take something that "looks like HL7" and convert it into a proper
HL7 message. Currently the
--loose option can only handle 1 HL7 message
per file (it causes
mllp_send to assume the whole file is one HL7
message).
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES¶
AUTHOR¶
John Paulett
COPYRIGHT¶
2011, John Paulett