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Components are core to how Iguana X IguanaX works.

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titleInterfaces are built up of one or more components

This shows three connected components represented in the flow chart of the dashboard:

You can see these components in the list view on the side of the dashboard also:

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titleComponents promote separation of concerns - key to designing interfaces

Components should be designed to handle a single task. For example, when building an interface between two systems that requires some message processing, this integration should be made up of at least 3 components:

  1. Source - receive the message from system A.

  2. Filter - apply any filtering or processing on the message.

  3. Destination - send the processed message to system B.

By separating the tasks between 3 components, we are leveraging Separation of Concerns which will help:

  • Embrace reusability of components. The more simple the task, the more likely you are able to reuse that component for a future interface.

  • The team understand and manage the components

  • Quickly locate and troubleshoot errors that may come up

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titleComponents can be viewed, started, stopped and configured through their card view
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The card view shows the use of Custom Fields which can be used to change the configuration of the component. You can stop and start the component with the switch in the top left.Double click on a component’s name in the list or graphical view to open up their card. See Component Cards

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HL7 Server is written in Lua and

By expanding the template section we can get access to it:

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Now we see this:

Image Removed is stored in Lua . There are no built in components in IguanaX. All the components are written in Lua which means you can look at how they are implemented and alter them to meet your specific requirements.
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titleEach component is written in Lua
You can see the source code of the component
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titleYou can see the source code of the component in the Translator view
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IguanaX makes it possible use common libraries across many different components.

Image RemovedThese libraries are contained in their own git “sub” repositories. They make use of the help system in IguanaX. We provide a number of libraries but you can also write and distribute your own libraries.
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titleComponents can use libraries which are shared across many components
in the Translator view

Click Image Added on the component card to see the code the component is running on (read only format):

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Click Image Added at the bottom of the component card or in the list view to read and edit the code:

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titleAll components and libraries are managed by Git - each component is self contained as a single repository

Git is an integral part of how Iguana X IguanaX works. Everything Every component is implemented as a Translator component and the source code for these components is stored in Git repositories.  All the components are written in Lua script so you can use them as is, or you can go into the translator to customize the source code to decide how it behaves.

For convenience of deployment it’s helpful to store these components on a platform like http://bitbucket.org or http://github.com. Currently we use bitbucket.

If Git is new to you, see Source control basic concepts to understand Git. What is Source Control?.

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