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Configuration UI

OHIF provides for a generic mechanism for configuring a data source. This is most useful for those organizations with several data sources that share common (path) hierarchies. For example, an organization may have several DICOM stores in the Google Cloud Healthcare realm where each is organized into various projects, location, data sets and DICOM stores.

By implementing the BaseDataSourceConfigurationAPI and BaseDataSourceConfigurationAPIItem in an OHIF extension, a data source can be made configurable via the generic UI as is depicted below for a Google Cloud Healthcare data source.

Data source configuration UI

tip

A datasource root URI can be fully or partially specified in the OHIF configuration file.

BaseDataSourceConfigurationAPIItem interface​

Each (path) item of a data source is represented by an instance of this interface. At the very least each of these items must expose two properties:

PropertyDescription
ida string that uniquely identifies the item
namea human readable name for the item

Note that information such as where in the path hierarchy the item exists has been omitted, but can be added in any concrete class that might implement this interface. For example, the the Google Cloud Healthcare implementation of this interface (GoogleCloudDataSourceConfigurationAPIItem) adds an itemType (i.e. projects, locations, datasets, or dicomStores) and url.

BaseDataSourceConfigurationAPI interface​

The implementation of this interface is at the heart of the configuration process. It possesses several methods for building up a data source path based on various BaseDataSourceConfigurationAPIItem objects that are set via calls to the setCurrentItem method.

The constructor for the concrete class implementation should accept whatever parameters are necessary for configuring the data source. One argument to the constructor must be the string identifying the name of the data source to be configured. Furthermore, considering that the ExtensionManager possesses API to configure and update data sources, it too will likely be an argument to the constructor. See Creation via Customization Module for more information on how the constructor is invoked via a factory method.

For an example implementation of this interface see GoogleCloudDataSourceConfigurationAPI.

Interface Methods​

Each of the following subsections lists a method of the interface with a description detailing what the method should do.

getItemLabels​

Gets the i18n labels (i.e. the i18n lookup keys) for each of the configurable items of the data source configuration API. For example, for the Google Cloud Healthcare API, this would be ['Project', 'Location', 'Data set', 'DICOM store'].

Besides the configurable item labels themselves, several other string look ups are used base on EACH of the labels returned by this method. For instance, for the label {itemLabel}, the following strings are fetched for translation...

  1. No {itemLabel} available
    • used to indicate no such items are available
    • for example, for Google, No Project available would be 'No projects available'
  2. Select {itemLabel}
    • used to direct selection of the item
    • for example, for Google, Select Project would be 'Select a project'
  3. Error fetching {itemLabel} list
    • used to indicate an error occurred fetching the list of items
    • usually accompanied by the error itself
    • for example, for Google, Error fetching Project list would be 'Error fetching projects'
  4. Search {itemLabel} list
    • used as the placeholder text for filtering a list of items
    • for example, for Google, Search Project list would be 'Search projects'

initialize​

Initializes the cloud server API and returns the top-level sub-items that can be chosen to begin the process of configuring a data source. For example, for the Google Cloud Healthcare API, this would perform the initial request to fetch the top level projects for the logged in user account.

setCurrentItem​

Sets the current path item that is passed as an argument to the method and returns the sub-items of that item that can be further chosen to configure a data source. When setting the last configurable item of the data source (path), this method returns an empty list AND configures the active data source with the selected items path.

For example, for the Google Cloud Healthcare API, this would take the current item (say a data set) and queries and returns its sub-items (i.e. all of the DICOM stores contained in that data set). Furthermore, whenever the item to set is a DICOM store, the Google Cloud Healthcare API implementation would update the OHIF data source associated with this instance to point to that DICOM store.

getConfiguredItems​

Gets the list of items currently configured for the data source associated with this API instance. The resultant array must be the same length as the result of getItemLabels. Furthermore the items returned should correspond (index-wise) with the labels returned from getItemLabels.

Creation via Customization Module​

The generic UI (i.e. DataSourceConfigurationComponent) uses the OHIF UI customization service to instantiate the BaseDataSourceConfigurationAPI instance to configure a data source.

A UI configurable data source should have a configurationAPI field as part of its configuration in the OHIF config file. The configurationAPI value is the customization id of the customization module that provides the factory method to instantiate the BaseDataSourceConfigurationAPI instance.

For example, the following is a snippet of a Google Cloud Healthcare data source configuration.

  dataSources: [
    {
      namespace: '@ohif/extension-default.dataSourcesModule.dicomweb',
      sourceName: 'google-dicomweb',
      configuration: {
        name: 'GCP',
        wadoUriRoot: 'https://healthcare.googleapis.com/v1/projects/ohif-cloud-healthcare/locations/us-east4/...',
        ...
        configurationAPI: 'ohif.dataSourceConfigurationAPI.google',
        ...
      },
    },
  ]

This suggests that the factory method is provided by the 'ohif.dataSourceConfigurationAPI.google' customization module. That customization module is provided by the default extension's getCustomizationModule and looks something like the following snippet of code. Notice that the factory method's name MUST be factory and accept one argument - the data source name. Furthermore note how the constructor is invoked with anything required by the concrete configuration API class.

export default function getCustomizationModule({
  servicesManager,
  extensionManager,
}) {
  return [
    {
      name: 'default',
      value: [
        {
          // The factory for creating an instance of a BaseDataSourceConfigurationAPI for Google Cloud Healthcare
          id: 'ohif.dataSourceConfigurationAPI.google',
          factory: (dataSourceName: string) =>
            new GoogleCloudDataSourceConfigurationAPI(
              dataSourceName,
              servicesManager,
              extensionManager
            ),
        },
      ],
    },
  ];
}