What happened to the WPD data in the thing type with HVCC V2?

hvdevice — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:37:00 GMT

In the latest version of HealthVault Connection center, we have optimized the size of the data being sent from the device to the HealthVault platform. The WPD data is being stored in the "other-data" section. This content is in a zipped-base64 package that can be acessed with some additional work. Below is sample code that is able to access the WPD content.

/// <summary>

/// The sample function demonstrating how to get WPD data from items uploaded to HealthVault

/// by v1.x (old behavior) and by v 2.x client (new behavior).

/// It accesses first self-record in the account associated with the AuthenticatedConnection object,

/// retrieves all items of weight type and retrieves WPD data if exist

/// </summary>

/// <param name="authenticatedConnection"></param>

private void SampleWorkingWithWpdData(AuthenticatedConnection authenticatedConnection)

{

// getting a first self-record ID

Guid recordId = authenticatedConnection.GetPersonInfo().GetSelfRecord().Id;

HealthRecordAccessor healthRecordAccessor = new HealthRecordAccessor(authenticatedConnection, recordId);

// retrieve all items of the weight type for this record

HealthRecordItemCollection healthRecordItemCollection = healthRecordAccessor.GetItemsByType(Health.ItemTypes.Weight.TypeId, HealthRecordItemSections.Xml);

// loop through each healthRecordItem

foreach (HealthRecordItem healthRecordItem in healthRecordItemCollection)

{

string itemXml = healthRecordItem.GetItemXml();

if (healthRecordItem.CommonData != null &&

healthRecordItem.CommonData.Extensions != null)

{

// create variable to contain WPD data

string dataWpd = string.Empty;

// going through each Extension in HealthRecordItem and proceed if it has WPD data

foreach (HealthRecordItemExtension healthRecordItemExtension in healthRecordItem.CommonData.Extensions)

{

if (string.Compare(healthRecordItemExtension.Source, "WPD", true) == 0) // the item has WPD extension

{

// old behavior:WPD data contained in healthRecordItemExtension.ExtensionData.

if (healthRecordItemExtension.ExtensionData != null)

{

dataWpd = healthRecordItemExtension.ExtensionData.CreateNavigator().InnerXml;

}

// Now if the healthRecordItemExtension.ExtensionData is missing, it's a new data model where

//we retrieve WPD compressed data from OtherData:

else

{

HealthRecordItem healthRecordItemDataOther = healthRecordAccessor.GetItem(healthRecordItem.Key.Id, HealthRecordItemSections.OtherData);

if (string.Compare(healthRecordItemDataOther.OtherData.ContentEncoding, "base64", true) == 0 ||

string.Compare(healthRecordItemDataOther.OtherData.ContentEncoding, "base-64", true) == 0)

{

// converting base64 zipped items to string

dataWpd = Base64GZipTextToString(healthRecordItemDataOther.OtherData.Data);

}

break;

}

if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(dataWpd))

{

// do something with WPD data

}

/// <summary>

/// Decodes string from base 64 and decodes it using GZip decompression

/// </summary>

/// <param name="source"></param>

/// <returns>Decoded from base-64 and decompressed string</returns>

private string Base64GZipTextToString(string source)

{

// verify argument

if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(source))

{

throw new ArgumentNullException("source","Parameter cannot be null or empty");

}

// convert the string to Unicode bytes

byte[] srcBuffer = Convert.FromBase64String(source);

_compressedBufferSize = srcBuffer.Length;

using(MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())

{

// compress the buffer

memoryStream.Write(

srcBuffer,

srcBuffer.Length);

// reset the memory stream to read the decompressed data

memoryStream.Position = 0;

System.IO.Compression.GZipStream decompression =

new System.IO.Compression.GZipStream(

memoryStream,

System.IO.Compression.CompressionMode.Decompress);

byte[] decompressedBytes = ReadAllBytesFromStream(decompression);

_decompressedBufferSize = decompressedBytes.Length;

// reading compressed buffer back

//decompression.Read(decompressedBytes, 0, decompressedBytes.Length);

decompression.Close();

return System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decompressedBytes);

}

private const int buffer_size = 100;

private static byte[] ReadAllBytesFromStream(System.IO.Compression.GZipStream stream)

{

// Use this method is used to read all bytes from a stream.

int buffer_size = 100;

byte[] buffer = new byte[buffer_size];

using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())

{

while (true)

{

int bytesRead = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer_size);

if (bytesRead == 0)

{

break;

}

memoryStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);

}

// reset the buffer to read the data

memoryStream.Position = 0;

byte[] newbuffer = new byte[memoryStream.Length];

memoryStream.Read(newbuffer,0,newbuffer.Length);

return newbuffer;

}

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