History of Changes

• Release 3.8.0 - May 6, 2011
  Major changes.
  • Improved EDI file parser ability to handle unknown or out of place segments.
  Minor changes.
  • Better error handling for segments with PrimaryID fields (Extended Package).
  • Instead of throwing OBOEException the method int getSegmentCount(String, String) returns zero if either the segment id or the primary id field arguments can not be found (Extended Package).
• Release 3.7.8 - Feb 14, 2011
  Major changes.
  Minor changes.
  • Corrected bug with NumericDE class to catch invalid lengths.
• Release 3.7.7 - Feb 10, 2011
  Major changes.
  Minor changes.
  • Corrected a bug that allowed multiple Loops to be added when the loop was defined to occur one time.
• Release 3.7.6 - Jan 13, 2011
  Major changes.
  Minor changes.
  • Renamed DocumentErrors method setLevel and getLevel to reflect the real meaning of the method. New method names are setLevelToReport and getErrorLevelToReport. Also removed int argument to getErrorLevelToReport.
  • Updated several basic X12 classes to use the SNIP level 1 error for error reporting.
  • Added a new method getSegmentCount(String ID, String primaryIDValue) to the SegmentContainer class that returns the number of equivalent segments within the container. This is used by the HIPAA package for segments with similar definitions that repeat within the same loop but are separated from each other by their primary ID value.
• Release 3.7.5 - December 17, 2010
  Major changes.
  Minor changes.
  • Loop and Segment validation method not calling extended validation method. This change to Extended Edition only.
  • If ST03 is used and if it doesn't match the value in GS08 then this is reported as an error.
  • Some comment documentation updates scattered across several source files.
  • Added toString method to elementRules class (Internal use)
  • Created new sample program DrillingDownFromEnvelopeToEachElement to show how to drill down through a X12 message.
  • Release 3.7.4 - November 10, 2010
    Major changes.
    Minor changes.
    • Bug fix for RealDE validation routine. Method was always returning the fail error indicator (boolean false) after the Mandatory field test.
    • Some comment documentation updates scattered across several source files.
    • Release 3.7.3 - October 29, 2010
      Major changes.
      Minor changes.
      • Bug fix for setting group field delimiter (aka Component Element Separator).
        • X12Envelope getFormattedText was not setting the I15 field to the pre-configured value so during post-configuration the user defined value was not being set.
        • The ValidXMLParser was not capturing the I15 delimiter value during the parsing step.
      • Some comment documentation updates scattered across several source files.
      • Release 3.7.2 - October 5, 2010
        Major changes.
        Minor changes.
        • Bug fix to MessageStripper method getX12Envelope. If the text IEA ended a data element value envelope object would be built incorrectly.
        • Sample program FileConverter - some methods missing logic to log error messages.
        • Release 3.7.1 - August 17, 2010
          Major changes.
          Minor changes.
          • Added new method to DataElement classes getRepeatCount. This returns the number of values filled in the value array. To put it another way - the number of of elements used in a repeating data element.
          • Updated OBOECodeGenerator utility program to allow user to pass the version number to be used with the specified envelope rules file.
          • Release 3.7.0 - May 11, 2010
            Major changes.
            • Added two new operators used by the searchDirective property
              1. X - can be used to search in directories of the primary version for extended versioning as specified in the GS08 field. The X value can be used in conjunction with the other searchDirective values.
                 For instance if GS08 has a value of 004010X097 the searchDirective X value will use 004010 as the directory to search in.
              2. , - the comma character is used to specify multiple search directives. This allows you to create multiple search requests to find the correct transaction set rules file. Once a transaction set rules file is found to match the search directive and the transaction set id the search stops and the rules file is used.
                 For instance if the searchDirective is V,X,VS search will start with the directory as specified by GS08. If not found then it will search the primary version of the same GS08 value. If not found then it will search in the combined name of GS08 and IS06. And finally it will default back to the directory as specified in the xmlPath property.
            Minor changes.
            • Envelope versioning; through a NullPointerException if searchDirective is not specified in the OBOE.properties file.
          • Release 3.6.6 - March 8, 2010
            Major changes.
            Minor changes.
            • Envelope versioning; was not using the same search logic as TransactionSet versioning. This caused the program to do a complete file search for envelope specific IDList files.
          • Release 3.6.5 - February 23, 2010
            Major changes.
            Minor changes.
            • The X12Tokenizer was capturing the envelope version in a local variable. When it should have storing it in the Tokenizer class variable.
            • The EnvelopeFactory method buildEnvelope(String inFileName, String version) was not inserting a directory separator when building the xml envelope file name.
            • The visibility of the parameterless constructors for envelope objects has been reduced to protected. I decided not to deprecate the constructor becuase if it is used outside the owning package a NullPointerException is thrown.
          • Release 3.6.4 - December 3, 2009
            Major changes.
            Minor changes.
            • RealDE class did not handle large numbers well. set Method created them with scientific notation and thereby causing the validation method to fail.
          • Release 3.6.3 - November 17, 2009
            Major changes.
            Minor changes.
            • TimeDE class validation method did not allow for tenth of seconds. Method also did not validate the seconds for value range (00-59). Also corrected error text that used the word Date; it is now Time.
          • Release 3.6.2 - November 16, 2009
            Major changes.
            Minor changes.
            • Loop class get() method did not call child loop objects.
            • TemplateSegment class added toString() method for debugging.
            • X12DocumentHandlerXMLBuilder in samples package did not close functional groups and built envelope header incorrectly when generating validatable xml output.
          • Release 3.6.1 - July 22, 2009
            Major changes.
            • Added ability for the document handlers to tell the parser to halt/stop.
              Update to the EDIDocumentHandler class with new notification method to request halt.
              Update to specific EDIDocumentHandler classes to test halt indicator and terminate after each notify... event.
            • Improved logic in removeCRLFFromReader and removeCRLFFromStream to handle incoming data that uses the CRLF as a delimiter.
            Minor changes.
            • TimeDE class does better length check for error validation and storage.
            • Loop class was calling XML based validatingMethod without checking to see if an error already existed. ValidatingMethods for HIPAA assume a call is made if the object has passed level 3 edits.
            • RulesAndCodeBuilder did not close table node correctly if validatingMethod attribute was present.
            • Fixed null pointer exception in DocumentErrors when attempting to write object definition of parent object and parent object is null.
            • Some code clean up for unused imports.
          • Release 3.6.0 - March 19, 2009
            Major changes.
            • Introduced new methods for getting and setting data element values.

              Setting from data element container object - Segment and CompositeDE setDataElementValue(int, String) setDataElementValue(String, String)

              Getting value from data element container object - Segment and CompositeDE getDataElementValue(int, String) getDataElementValue(String, String)

            • Introduced new OBOE.property to validate characters sets.

              Property Name	Description
              validCharacterSet	An optional property to allow testing of valid characters in data element objects. Standard X12 A...Z0...9 !="&'()*+,-./:';?= Extended X12 A...Za...z0...9 !="&'()*+,-./:';?= EDIFACT Level A A...Z0...9 .,-()/='+:?!"%&*;<> EDIFACT Level B A...Za...z0...9 .,-()/'+:=?!"%&*;<> Default value is any character.

            • Removed the OBOE Server classes (Extended Edition).
            • Removed the OBOE Mail classes for AS1 (Extended Edition).
            Minor changes.