ahuggins-nhs
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4 years ago In my limited experience, it goes both ways. We're using this in a microservice in MS Azure which we call from a few different services, and we also use it as an embedded library for grabbing some quick info from ISA/GS/ST headers.
With my biases, I would lean toward a reusable microservice that can be extended and only embed the lib as needed for metadata. That's based totally on what we've done so far, I have no empirical evidence to really reason through which way is "better".
@ahuggins-nhs Do you think there is a need for a UI/Web API/ Microservice thing for this project? I have been able to use this library and generate/parse the EDI I need with ease. I have done this all in my test app using some dynamic scripts. Now is the time to implement this into my main project and as I sat down and thought about it how to do this I feel like my brain is pulling me toward making this a microservice. That got me thinking, how many other people could use an scriptable EDI microservice in their app designs? Do a lot of people use EDI and if so do they build support for it directly into their apps or do they abstract it out as a service?