Need a way to start a Mirth process, from a Postgres database trigger

Question

I have limited knowledge about the capabilities of Mirth. What I want to do is have a trigger on an order table and when a new order hits the table, I would like to start up a process on a Mirth Server. Does anyone know of a way I can make this work? I guess my question is how do I start a process on the Mirth server? See, I don't want to poll a table from the Mirth side, because there are certain times of day when the online activity will be VERY high and I don't want something polling the data every few seconds to see if new orders have hit, because orders may only come around two times of the day. Weird I know, but these are the parameters I have to work with. Any help would be greatly appreciated, or just point me in the right direction. . .

Answer 1

You need to provide more information on your environment.

What does "start a Mirth process" mean? Start a channel? Post or transmit to an already running channel?

I would also see Calling RESTful Web Services from PostgreSQL procedure/function

Answer 2

Not sure if this will help but you can use startChannel and stopChannel methods on ChannelUtils to start or stop channels on demand.

Also, under Polling Settings from Database Reader Source Connector you can select an interval, a time of day, or a custom expression to trigger. More about this in the User guide, pages 203 and 314