# getting the concept name

**Category:** [Reference Implementation: Java (archive)](https://discourse.openehr.org/c/reference-implementation-java-archive/154)
**Created:** 2007-10-26 00:55 UTC
**Views:** 4
**Replies:** 3
**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/getting-the-concept-name/14691

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## Post #1 by @sebastian.garde

Hi,

I am trying to get the \(full\!\) concept name for a parsed archetype\.

The best I can come up with is:

String conceptName="";

List<ArchetypeTerm> terms =
myArchetype\.getOntology\(\)\.getTermDefinitionsList\(\)\.get\(0\)\.getDefinitions
\(\);

for \(int i=0; i< terms\.size\(\); i\+\+\) \{

if \(terms\.get\(i\)\.getCode\(\)\.equals\(myArchetype\.getConcept\(\)\)\) \{

            conceptName= terms\.get\(i\)\.getItem\(ArchetypeTerm\.TEXT\);

            break;

      \}

\}

Note that this doesn't even take into account the language I want it in,
I just take the first language I come across \(0\), otherwise the code
would further blow up\.

Is there a smarter way to do this\.\.\.in essence something like an indexOf
for the Code only, not the full ArchetypeTerm?

Or a convenience method like String getArchetypeTermText\(String code,
String language\)?

Am I missing something?

Regards

Sebastian

Dr Sebastian Garde
Dr\. sc\. hum\., Dipl\.\-Inform\. Med, FACHI

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Austin Centre for Applied Clinical Informatics, Austin Health
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## Post #2 by @system

Hi Sebastian,

There is a convenient method termDefinition(String language, String code) in class ArchetypeOntology to get ArchetypeTerm so you don't need to step through the term list by yourself.

You can do the following already:

String conceptCode = myArchetype.getConcept();
ArchetypeTerm term = myArchetype.getOntology().termDefinition(yourLanguage, conceptCode);
String conceptName = term. getItem(ArchetypeTerm.TEXT);

Still there are two things we could improve here:
1. Add a method in Archetype to facilitate this task
public String getConcept(String Language);

2. Add two convenient methods in ArchetypeTerm to facilitate fetching text and description
public String getText(); // instead of getItem(ArchetypeTerm.TEXT)
public String getDescription(): // instead of getItem(ArchetypeTerm.DESCRIPTION )

Cheers,
Rong

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## Post #3 by @system

Hi Sebastian,

A little better code I think:

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## Post #4 by @sebastian.garde

Hi Rong and Shinji,

Thanks for the help\.

I implemented it as suggested and added the methods to the Parser

Cheers

Sebastian

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