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Welcome to iNTERFACEWARE’s code repository – a place to find and share official and community-submitted code. Our goal is to provide useful and commonly used interfaces, modules, code snippets, and to encourage the members of our community to learn, share and help each other with their projects.

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custom_merge.lua

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Modules

A customizable database merge method for Iguana 5.5.1 and up.

DB table Insert with auto-incrementing Id

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Code Samples

Demonstrates how to use conn:merge{} with a table that has an auto-incrementing Id column.

example/demo.vmd

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VMDs

The example/demo.vmd file used in many of our documentation examples

hl7.serialize.lua

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Modules

Serializes an HL7 message using specified non-standard delimiters and/or escape characters

Transforming messages

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Code Samples

How to transform part of an HL7 message (similar principles apply to other message types)

Parse an XML message

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Code Snippets

How to parse an XML message using xml.parse()

Prevent code from running in the editor

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Code Snippets

Use iguana.isTest() to prevent code from running in the editor

Delete a directory

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Code Snippets

Use os.fs.rmdir() to delete an empty directory, if the directory is not empty an error is returned

Check if a node is a primary key

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Code Snippets

Use node.isKey() to check if a node is the primary key for a database table, this method only for table node trees

Using html encoding

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Code Snippets

How to encode strings with html special characters, using filter.html.enc()

Dehydrate (serialize) as XML

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Code Samples

How to dehydrate (serialize) raw XML data, this can be useful for storing in a databases

dateparse.lua

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Modules

A fuzzy date/time parser that is very useful for automatically translating a wide variety of date/time formats.

Create a SQLite database and tables

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Code Samples

This script automatically creates a SQLite database and then generates the tables specified in a VMD.

batch.vmd

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VMDs

Use this VMD to process HL7 batch files, it recognizes the FSH and BSH batch headers

test_all.lua

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Modules

Test a script against all the sample messages loaded for the component

Filtering messages

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Code Samples

How to filter out unwanted HL7 messages (similar principles apply to other message types)

Get time and date

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Code Snippets

Using date and time functions with some formatting examples

Prevent code from running in a live channel

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Code Snippets

Use iguana.isTest() to allow code to run in the editor but not in the live channel

Create a directory

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Code Snippets

Use os.fs.mkdir() to create a directory

Check if a node is a leaf node

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Code Snippets

Use node.isLeaf() to check if a node is a leaf node (has no children), works for all node types