Why is complex value of complex obs empty

[ivange94 (Ivange Larry Ndumbe)]

Hi @mksd

Sorry for no feedback on this. This did not work(I did not try to debug it either). My mentor reported similar issues with the text handler, so I guess there is a bug with it. But due to the tight deadline for my gsoc project I did not get the time to look into this. My mentor proposed another solution that will not need to use the complex obs. Its darius response on this thread Help with embedding complex obs inside RadiologyReport.java - #5 by teleivo

@darius

One thing to point out: this implies that you are going to store a free-standing obs, and store a reference to that in the radiology report. E.g. you’ll end up with:

an HTML file on the filesystem a row in the obs table, whose complex_value points to the HTML file a column in the radiology report table, whose value is a foreign key to the obs_id of the obs.

That may be what you want to do, but the alternative is to just use a mechanism similar to the complex obs one, but not_mechanism_, but not actually store an obs. E.g. instead you just have:

an HTML file on the filesystem a column in the radiology report table that points to the HTML file (no obs)

One of the reasons for this was due to the argument that darius provided on the thread.