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Version: v0.0.6

Class: MllpTimeoutError

Thrown (or rejects the send() promise) when an ACK does not arrive within the configured ackTimeoutMs.

The timeout clock starts at the underlying write() flush callback, NOT at the send() call, pre-flush queue time is not charged to the peer.

Example​

try {
  await client.send(payload);
} catch (err) {
  if (err instanceof MllpTimeoutError) {
    logger.warn({ elapsedMs: err.elapsedMs, idBytes: err.messageControlIdBytes });
  }
}

Extends​

  • Error

Constructors​

Constructor​

new MllpTimeoutError(message, opts): MllpTimeoutError

Construct an MLLP timeout error.

Parameters​

message​

string

Human-readable error message. Structural facts only, never field content.

opts​

Timeout context (control-id byte length, elapsed time, flush timestamp).

elapsedMs​

number

messageControlIdBytes​

number | undefined

sentAt​

number

Returns​

MllpTimeoutError

Overrides​

Error.constructor

Properties​

elapsedMs​

readonly elapsedMs: number

Milliseconds elapsed between write-flush and timeout fire.

messageControlIdBytes​

readonly messageControlIdBytes: number | undefined

Byte length of the timed-out send's MSH-10 control ID, or undefined when there was none to read (FIFO mode, or a payload with no MSH-10).

The control ID itself is deliberately not here. An Error is a diagnostic surface: it is logged, and its stack is what an error reporter ships off the box. MSH-10 is payload content, and a scanner that returns the wrong field returns payload content of some other kind, which is how a patient identifier reaches a log line. Nothing is lost by withholding it, because this error rejects the very send() whose payload the caller passed in, so the caller already holds the bytes. Control IDs are decoded latin1, a 1:1 byte to code-unit map, so this count is a byte count.

name​

readonly name: "MllpTimeoutError"

Overrides​

Error.name

sentAt​

readonly sentAt: number

Epoch ms timestamp recorded at write-flush callback.