/// <summary> Encodes the given Type, using the given encoding characters.
/// It is assumed that the Type represents a complete field rather than a component.
/// </summary>
public static System.String Encode(IType source, EncodingCharacters encodingChars)
{
System.Text.StringBuilder field = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
for (int i = 1; i <= Terser.numComponents(source); i++)
{
System.Text.StringBuilder comp = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
for (int j = 1; j <= Terser.numSubComponents(source, i); j++)
{
IPrimitive p = Terser.getPrimitive(source, i, j);
comp.Append(EncodePrimitive(p, encodingChars));
comp.Append(encodingChars.SubcomponentSeparator);
}
field.Append(StripExtraDelimiters(comp.ToString(), encodingChars.SubcomponentSeparator));
field.Append(encodingChars.ComponentSeparator);
}
return(StripExtraDelimiters(field.ToString(), encodingChars.ComponentSeparator));
//return encode(source, encodingChars, false);
}
public void TestEnumerators()
{
var segment = sut.GetSegment("MSH");
Assert.AreEqual(3, Terser.numComponents(segment.GetField(9, 0)));
segment.GetField(9, 0).ExtraComponents.GetComponent(0);
Assert.AreEqual(4, Terser.numComponents(segment.GetField(9, 0)));
segment.GetField(9, 0).ExtraComponents.GetComponent(1);
Assert.AreEqual(5, Terser.numComponents(segment.GetField(9, 0)));
segment.GetField(2, 0).ExtraComponents.GetComponent(0);
Assert.AreEqual(2, Terser.numComponents(segment.GetField(2, 0)));
((IPrimitive)((IComposite)segment.GetField(9, 0)).Components[0].ExtraComponents.GetComponent(0).Data).Value = "xxx";
Assert.AreEqual(2, Terser.numSubComponents(segment.GetField(9, 0), 1));
}