Add option to enocde all present but empty segments

DiGiT — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:08:11 -0000

A message can have a segment present but empty, like if I parse a message that has a segment "ZPD|||". Calling Message.printStructure() shows the segment as "ZPD".

Given such a message, I see no easy way to make a Parser automatically encode such segments. They are just stripped from the encoded form by default. I know I could use ParserConfiguration.addForcedEncode() to force encoding certain segments, but I am using HAPI to just pass through messages after doing some transformation so I actually have no idea what optional/non-standard segments may be present in the message.

So I am writing to request an option to encode present but empty segments. Thanks in advance.

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Add option to enocde all present but empty segments